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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by VikingCoder on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:59PM (#6986153)
The resources you consume, versus the reproductive edge your provide to your offspring. Specifically, if you're competing for resources they could have used in their own reproduction.

The most successful DNA will be when a group of people launch their descendants off into the galaxy to avoid the Red Giant death in our solar system. We're all rats on one slowly sinking ship, right now.

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by VLM on Monday December 30, 2013 @04:44PM (#6987186)
"if you're competing for resources"

A lot of techno-utopia assumptions come into play, such as a culture powerful enough to extend life to 500 years probably has no resources left to compete for other than the momentary attraction of a fertile member of the opposite sex, although even that could probably be worked around in a lab (cloning or something?). If we discover something tomorrow I'd have to eat my words but I'm assuming it would require "star trek era" tech to pull this off.

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