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Yes of course. Although it loses some of its shock factor once you hear a bit about measure theory

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Disagree. For those using the browser, with link posts you have to click the link to see anything more than the thumbnail which navigates away from the page. The ability to expand in-place, and to see the full picture with the comments when visiting the post, is a better experience for the viewer if the whole purpose of the post is to share an image. And that’s before you consider that it might be an original image made by the poster.

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A classic! To complete it, Peacekeepers: dead centre. Spartans: even more blue. University: ???

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Who else is thinking of that one scene near the start of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?

Golden lobsters are exceptionally rare, with some estimates suggesting they occur in as few as one in 30 million individuals

I had no idea these existed or that they’re so unusual. The picture just looks like a lobster but yellowish, I had to force myself to remember that they’re meant to be blue.

Thanks very much for this response! Good information for people like me who are interested to read more.

I think the point I was trying to make is that there are multiple reasons instead of one, and none of them are simple or easy. Understanding how those six things happen is subtly different to asking why they happen, which might be why we’ve got such a range of comments here and why the scientists in the article couldn’t agree on their answer.

In the informal sense that everything breaks eventually then yes. If you’re talking strictly in terms of physics, humans increase entropy just by existing, by eating calories and generating body heat, and that would still be true if we didn’t age.

Yes, I’ve heard similar things before and that’s probably the closest thing to a true explanation. It’s a purely genetic line of reasoning which raises a lot of questions though: What’s the biological clock that controls the timing of when genes activate? Which/how many genes are responsible for aging and does everyone have all of them? Could animals be selectively bred for longevity indefinitely? Some of these questions might have partial answers already but I don’t know them.

Thanks for the paper, it’s interesting and I definitely couldn’t follow the whole thing. It says at one point that the findings are consistent with the theory that organisms age to make way for their offspring. I’ve heard of the slightly different version where it’s just random genes that don’t have any benefit but the downside isn’t bad enough for them to be selected against.