> The results revealed that Jonathan has “unique gene variants in most aging pathways” including DNA repair, insulin regulation, mitochondrial function, and “low entropy” methylation, reports the study.
min-maxing longevity vs speed and charisma
kspacewalk2 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The hare really ought to take notes
luipugs [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I dunno, I think he's pretty charismatic. He has all these researchers wanting to spend time with him.
scun [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Sure but biologists will talk to anything. You know what happened to the other tortoises? Bored to death.
Ancalagon [3 hidden]5 mins ago
He doesn't look a day over 90!
F3nd0 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
> He doesn't look a day over 90!
He still has quite a ways to go to 1485715964481761497309522733620825737885569961284688766942216863704985393094065876545992131370884059645617234469978112000000000000000000000. :-)
He has a pm unusually large volume and has been around an unusually long time and they are the group responsible for anomalies in space-time.
calacatta [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Every couple Summers
Me and a couple hunters
Like to row in from the Isle of
Astonishing M*erf*ers
samudrijan [3 hidden]5 mins ago
In the Leftovers people think living in Jarden is why they were left. Maybe St Helena is the new Jarden.
dyauspitr [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Interesting so the oldest land animal hasn’t cracked 200 but stuff that lives in the sea can go for five or 600 years or more.
mrheosuper [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Maybe leaving the water is a mistake...
bmitc [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Whales seemed to have figured that out.
epolanski [3 hidden]5 mins ago
There's sharks out there that are much older than the United States.
And sponges older than pyramids.
loloquwowndueo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Older than the United States hahaha.
Remember the saying : in the US, 100 years is a long time; in Europe, 100km is a long distance.
tick_tock_tick [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Isn't the USA older then pretty much every country in Europe? Maybe the UK could be considered older depending on how you count it and San Marino is there but all the other major ones like Germany, Italy, France, Spain, etc aren't even 100.
Scandiravian [3 hidden]5 mins ago
How in the world can you claim that France is not even 100? The German empire was established in 1857, which is definitely more than 100 years ago; it's also not unreasonable to say that the HRE could be equated to the German state, that Spain is the continuation of Castille, and that the Roman empire can be considered the direct precursor to Italy
There's a cultural through line for all these countries, often stretching back thousands of years, which means that they reach further back than the definition of the modern state
bdangubic [3 hidden]5 mins ago
My Dad has a vacuum cleaner that is older than USA
bmitc [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It's interesting how arrogant Europeans can be towards the U.S. when they themselves seeded the U.S.!
autoexec [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It's still pretty long in the US.
Over an hour by car, and even for people who bicycle regularly riding a century is no joke.
rootusrootus [3 hidden]5 mins ago
By that same sort of metric, 100 years is a long time in Europe, too. Not too many people live that long.
rootusrootus [3 hidden]5 mins ago
How pedantic can we be? There are a number of countries in Europe younger than the United States...
antonvs [3 hidden]5 mins ago
> Stephen Clark, an aging researcher
Shouldn’t they find a younger researcher?
repeekad [3 hidden]5 mins ago
> the samples were delivered from Saint Helena to Florida by the U.S. Space Force.
...why space force?
sublinear [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It's a remote area and USSF has operations in nearby Ascension Island.
fnordpiglet [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Because Trump, Musk, et al are hoping to live forever but their lifestyle is not very forgiving - hence all haste.
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Y'all see Trump and Elon in everything.
Mistletoe [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Well considering the cringe Space Force was created by them…
verdverm [3 hidden]5 mins ago
he's so old, he's completely lost the hare /j
pil0u [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Can't we just appreciate that exceptionality as it is?
Somehow, I wish we would leave that creature alone. For once.
fnordpiglet [3 hidden]5 mins ago
They did opt to swab his mouth rather than draw blood to minimize his discomfort. That seems like a pretty reasonable compromise for the value of learning and science
min-maxing longevity vs speed and charisma
He still has quite a ways to go to 1485715964481761497309522733620825737885569961284688766942216863704985393094065876545992131370884059645617234469978112000000000000000000000. :-)
Me and a couple hunters
Like to row in from the Isle of
Astonishing M*erf*ers
And sponges older than pyramids.
Remember the saying : in the US, 100 years is a long time; in Europe, 100km is a long distance.
There's a cultural through line for all these countries, often stretching back thousands of years, which means that they reach further back than the definition of the modern state
Shouldn’t they find a younger researcher?
...why space force?
Somehow, I wish we would leave that creature alone. For once.