• Ashyr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      That killed my childhood cat. Would be awesome for future kids to not experience what I did.

          • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
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            6 months ago

            I dunno accepting death as an inevitability seems important since since we otherwise struggle hard to ignore it in western culture and by extension can create a lot of suffering.

            • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              6 months ago

              A pet doesn’t need to die for that. If you look around… Death is everywhere!

              [Starts singing and dancing a musical number down the street]

    • Drusas@kbin.run
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      6 months ago

      That would be amazing. They can already live so long. To think, you might be able to have a cat with you for most of your adult life.

  • Schmoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Science is just the method by which technological advancements are achieved, it doesn’t decide the priorities. That privilege falls to capital, and by extension, capitalists.

    • theonyltruemupf@feddit.deEnglish
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      6 months ago

      First and foremost, priorities are set by reality.

      Extending a dog’s lifespan by 60 years would be a very high demand product and could be sold for much more than what smartphones cost. If it was feasible, it would have already been done.

      • Shareni@programming.devEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Flying would be a very high demand service and could be sold for much more than what a train ticket costs. If it was feasible, it would have already been done.

        • someone 150 years ago
  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Who stop at 60? Immortal dogs!

    This is your father’s dog. An elegant puppy for a more civilised age. Take care of it, you and your descendents, for it will outlive you all.

    Oh wait, now I realised that’s basically r2d2

    • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I think I prefer that my dog dies before I do. Being a King Charles spaniel it’ll probably just sit by my rotting corpse until it dies from hunger.

        • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          R2, stop licking the lightsabers, you’ll get a hairball!

          R2! Hold still while I give you this oil bath! Oh no, he’s run off to the desert again to find Old Ben.

          “Captain! All the other droids died, but this little one fixed the ship and saved us!” “Be careful in the future though, it says 8 out of 9 lives left.”

          R2D2 is a cat.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      One idea I’ve heard is that telomeres gain increasing stress and damage after years of DNA replication, from the torsional strain of the spiral of DNA as it splits and reforms in the replication process. How in the world could you fix that? DNA lube?

      • MonkderDritte@feddit.deEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I thought telomeres just get shortened during replication but not in stem cells or something like that? A while ago since i was in that rabbit hole.

        I think my conclusion was, we would have to fix programmed cell death vs. immune system & cancerous behavior, add 4x replication for dna-repair like some algae do it, and fix something in ribosomes (which i forgot).

        Then again, we probably don’t have to meddle with programmed cell death at all?