I’d be willing to participate in a study for reversing the aging process. Wondering if it can all happen at once, or begin with hair color retention and elimination of the every day aches and pains? Would find that to be quite interesting.
The aches and pains are a real thing. And you get them in unbelievably lame ways, like by sleeping. That's how I injured my foot. Sleeping. That was in June and it still hurts.
Usually the injuries go away if I ignore them long enough--except for the partial (right) and full-thickness (left) rotator cuff tears. I slipped while free-climbing El Capitan, right? No, I was sitting on my ass cutting the barn pasture with the riding mower and hit an unmarked stump. The tractor stopped with a jerk (heh) and in bracing myself with the steering wheel I ripped the tendons. Only the surgeon has to sit through the surgery, but the recovery is like six months, so screw that.
Anyway, my age has finally caught up with my bitterness levels so I'm not sure I'd sign up for trials for myself. If they'd perfected the process a few years ago I'd definitely have signed up two or three cats, though.
Fager, I always look forward to reading your comments, and this did not disappoint. I hope you don't mind, but this truly gave me a good laugh.
Honestly, most injury stories are not glamorous. But they're exactly that, a story that ends up being type II fun to share (at least for the audience).
A dear friend of mine broke his finger at the gym while holding a weight at an awkward angle that caused him to fall off the bench. No, it was not a heavyweight either. And what he did looked almost like a clumsy backward somersault.
Never stop being you. Maybe one of these days you will even like one of the therapeutics or products I'm sharing lol.
I hope it was "hah-hah" funny and not "why can't sanitariums be a thing again?" funny.
You might be surprised by how often I think the topics you cover are cool enough to share the articles with friends and family; this was one.
In the early 70's my dad did the only cutting-edge thing of his life and bought a Texas Instruments desk calculator. It was about $100 and the size of a salad plate. Now the dollar stores practically give calculators away and they come as small a key fob. I won't be around to see it if the innovations you write about make that same evolution, but if cloning, age-reversal, or resetting internal processes to prevent disease were at that stage now I really would have used it for a couple of pets. I'm absolutely going to keep hating on AI, though.
Amortality (A not I :) is but a stone's throw away! Well, a long throw... a topic that SF novels constantly explore in various ways... rewinding the clock in cells reminds me of Turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish.
Reversing the ageing effect is one thing. What about a future in which we have solved human cloning, and transferring human consciousness from clone to clone... or a clone that doesn't age but still can be damaged and may need to be "replaced"... Science Fiction until it isn't?
I’d be willing to participate in a study for reversing the aging process. Wondering if it can all happen at once, or begin with hair color retention and elimination of the every day aches and pains? Would find that to be quite interesting.
The aches and pains are a real thing. And you get them in unbelievably lame ways, like by sleeping. That's how I injured my foot. Sleeping. That was in June and it still hurts.
Usually the injuries go away if I ignore them long enough--except for the partial (right) and full-thickness (left) rotator cuff tears. I slipped while free-climbing El Capitan, right? No, I was sitting on my ass cutting the barn pasture with the riding mower and hit an unmarked stump. The tractor stopped with a jerk (heh) and in bracing myself with the steering wheel I ripped the tendons. Only the surgeon has to sit through the surgery, but the recovery is like six months, so screw that.
Anyway, my age has finally caught up with my bitterness levels so I'm not sure I'd sign up for trials for myself. If they'd perfected the process a few years ago I'd definitely have signed up two or three cats, though.
Fager, I always look forward to reading your comments, and this did not disappoint. I hope you don't mind, but this truly gave me a good laugh.
Honestly, most injury stories are not glamorous. But they're exactly that, a story that ends up being type II fun to share (at least for the audience).
A dear friend of mine broke his finger at the gym while holding a weight at an awkward angle that caused him to fall off the bench. No, it was not a heavyweight either. And what he did looked almost like a clumsy backward somersault.
Never stop being you. Maybe one of these days you will even like one of the therapeutics or products I'm sharing lol.
I hope it was "hah-hah" funny and not "why can't sanitariums be a thing again?" funny.
You might be surprised by how often I think the topics you cover are cool enough to share the articles with friends and family; this was one.
In the early 70's my dad did the only cutting-edge thing of his life and bought a Texas Instruments desk calculator. It was about $100 and the size of a salad plate. Now the dollar stores practically give calculators away and they come as small a key fob. I won't be around to see it if the innovations you write about make that same evolution, but if cloning, age-reversal, or resetting internal processes to prevent disease were at that stage now I really would have used it for a couple of pets. I'm absolutely going to keep hating on AI, though.
Amortality (A not I :) is but a stone's throw away! Well, a long throw... a topic that SF novels constantly explore in various ways... rewinding the clock in cells reminds me of Turritopsis dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish.
Reversing the ageing effect is one thing. What about a future in which we have solved human cloning, and transferring human consciousness from clone to clone... or a clone that doesn't age but still can be damaged and may need to be "replaced"... Science Fiction until it isn't?
Interesting article, David!