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Rainforest Guide comments on Is a 1000 year old human a possibility?

Rainforest Guide — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:32:53 +0000

Actually, there's been very promising results achieved from using reveratrol, a compound found in the skins of red grapes and thus present in red wines. It has extended the lifetime of every test animal used thus far, such that Aubrey de Grey himself takes it daily. However, no study regarding the long term side effects have been made, so it may not be the magic pill we're looking for yet.

Quality Tale comments on Is a 1000 year old human a possibility?

Quality Tale — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:28:20 +0000

Hi Friend,

It's really amzaing if one could thing over it to live 1000. I think the days passed away and considering todays scientific growth. It is possible what you have said here. Because, 2 days back, here is the live example I have seen that in India, a man having age of 127 yrs. old doing his regular activity nicely. The area belong to rural one. So, the day not ahead that the imagination of 1000 years proven to be true.

Nice article. Now with curiosity I have read out all the articles on your site and got very good and curious information about many things which are known and also unknown to me.

Thanks for the good and effortful information.

Regards,

debudeodhar

Johnny2Bad comments on The Black Plague

Johnny2Bad — Wed, 28 May 2008 06:28:27 +0000

"Ring around the rosy" refers to the typical appearance of the sores that appear on the body of plague victims ... a reddish boil with a distinct centre, called a bubo or buboe, hence Bubonic Plague.

"Pocket Full Of Posies" flowers used to cover the odor of Plague Infection carried on the person of victims.

"Ashes, Ashes" Bodies were burned to prevent further infection. The cause was not, at the time, understood to be flea-borne.

"We all fall down". You die.

ma65p comments on Why the Sky is Blue?

ma65p — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:39:10 +0000

How about when the Sun sets, the sky is red? I know this have something with the wavelength. So, when a light beam from the sun is tangent with the Earth, the beam has to go through a longer distance in the air, so more red light is disperse, is that right? But why red light?

Kat Celata comments on The Black Plague

Kat Celata — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:05:14 +0000

It is actually believed that the "ring of roses" is the discolorations that appear on the neck of a victim of Bubonic Plague, the "pocket full of posies" are the flowers or other herbal things that people would carry to either ward off the Plague, or to mitigate the awful smell. And after the "rosies" appear on the neck, well, we all fall down ie die.

cameron comments on Why toddlers suddenly learn to talk.

cameron — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:20:04 +0000

It has never made any sense to me and I have raised four. It seems like once they get over the first hurdle, say mother points and sounds a word, they rapidly get the connection between sound and pointing. Its the first connection that is the key.

dude comments on Pablo Picasso's Guernica

dude — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:53:25 +0000

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Collier Hageman comments on Why time slows down when approaching the Speed of Light.

Collier Hageman — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:09:58 +0000

Thoughtful comments, but they don't address a point that perhaps the author didn't emphasize enough: 'space' and 'time' do not exist seperately. They are our only possible views of the dimension of SPACETIME. Travel through this dimension ALWAYS (Always. Always.) occurs at a constant rate. Give this rate a numeric value of 1000. This rate of travel is occurring to you and everything you can physically perceive at this total rate, always. If you travel through 'space' by driving your car down the road at a velocity we'll give a value of 1, then your velocity through 'time' drops to 999. Get in a jet and increase your velocity through 'space' by a factor of 10, then your velocity through time becomes 990. The total must and will always add up to 100. This seems to show that 'space' and 'time' are merely inextricably linked, but further extrapolation shows that in fact they are one and the same. We are are unable to alter our 'time velocity' other than by altering our 'space velocity', and in fact can't even avoid doing so. And this causality cannot be reversed (imagine that!). That is, we can't alter our 'space velocity' by altering our 'time velocity'. The cause and effect, for us in this life anyway, is a one-way street.

Erica comments on Dirt

Erica — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:31:11 +0000

So why does soap clean off the dirt? It's something about reducing the bonds? How does soap work vs dirt?

Avi (Israel) comments on Why time slows down when approaching the Speed of Light.

Avi (Israel) — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:58:57 +0000

A point of clarification, don’t be mistaken to think that if you raveled at the speed of light you would have stayed forever young.
In your reference system, the system that travels at the speed of light, you would grow old the same way as if you were at rest because your biological clock will pace the same. In that sense a photon is not comparable to a living creature. So what’s the story? Well in other reference systems that are much slower than yours, things will occur at much faster rate. So it’s better to think about it as if in slower systems times moves “faster”. It is only when you will stop or slow down to meet other people at other systems you will notice the RELATIVE time difference. This is why it is called the Theory of Relativity and the time difference (“dilation”) is noticeable only when you compare different reference systems. If Earth had moved at the speed of light, from our perspective in our reference system everything would stay the same.
So, even if you travel at the speed of light, you do grow old.