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Re:Jonathan the 190-Year-Old Tortoise Was Photographed in 18... by Tenoke on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:03AM (#30100679)
We do seem to have a hard cap of around 120 which basically hasn't moved - we are just bringing the averages closer to it. I'm optimistic we'll go past it but not without some advances on a different level of everything so far.
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Re:Jonathan the 190-Year-Old Tortoise Was Photographed in 18... by vidarh on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:24AM (#30100890)
I think we have too few people still approaching 120 to know whether that apparent cap is more than "just" the combination of the risk of multiple mortality causes all getting high enough to make it unlikely.

Knock out or reduce a couple of the big ones, and we'll get an idea.

It's likely there are other limits. Eg. Telomere shortening, but I don't think we can say we're hitting other limits at 120

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