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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by wyager on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @02:58PM (#9416196)
Lobsters are biologically immortal, I.e. their expected remaining lifetime does not decrease with age.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality#Lobsters

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by comex on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @05:26PM (#9417243)
The text at your link contradicts your statement.
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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by robot22 on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @07:39PM (#9417913)
No it does not. Lobsters do not die from the effects of ageing. They die due to a lack of energy to keep moulting. Straight from the text.
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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by arsenide on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @12:53AM (#9418705)
"their expected remaining lifetime does not decrease with age." (emph REMAINING) implies that two lobsters, at 1 and 10 years, each have the same probability to live for some number X years in the future for some fixed X. This seems to me a certainly false statement, where you claim otherwise. Can you elaborate?
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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by robot22 on Thursday April 23, 2015 @03:04PM (#9429040)
I think we agree, I replied to the wrong comment
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