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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (... by k__ on Thursday February 15, 2018 @06:31AM (#16383237)
Creating new humans is costly and risky.

Maybe immortal humans give you a better bang for the buck.

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (... by MR4D on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:15PM (#16389583)
New humans replace those eliminated in accidents (immortality doesn’t).

New humans allow for changes in DNA to fit a changing environment (immortality doesn’t - hey, you get my drift)

Thinking of the people’s throughout history who shrunk to be smaller due to poor nutrition or unstable food source let’s the human race adapt pretty well to a whole host of issues. Immortality (unless it’s accompanied by some pretty impressive technology from the future) doesn’t.

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