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To: NoCmpromiz; Dead Corpse
"It is an entropy issue... If your study leads you to discover a means to reverse entropy, you will have the key to, among other things, perpetual motion, things that wind up instead of run down, lifespans of Biblical length..."

Precisely!

The reversal of entropy is a trivial matter in simple systems. Consider a cuckoo clock: In the short scale of time, the clock is winding down, losing its energy in a high to low flow of entropy.

Then you come along and raise the weights again, restoring its energy. It's now ready for another bout of ticking and talking. But then we have to change our scale of what it means to recharge its components into this longer time span. For long-lived biological organisms, this is what happens. Each function that has an entropic tendency to decline will have an energy pump to recharge it, and other systems that recharge the recharging systems.

Left to its own devices, Mother Nature develops intricate interweaving mechanisms of mutual and ever-more-everlasting systems. Stable environments tend to acquire organisms perfectly adapted to them.

We don't have time to wait for Mother Nature to do this for us. If we want to extend the life-span of species Homo, we will have to take matters into our own nano-technological hands.

But the first step in that is understanding the structures, rules, and devices available to us in our quest. A patient and pious gardener, Gregor Mendel, started us on a journey to infinity, and beyond, (as has been aptly stated).

3,071 posted on 02/12/2013 9:34:09 PM PST by NicknamedBob (In twenty-five words or less, please supply me with a new tagline.)
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To: NicknamedBob

3,072 posted on 02/12/2013 10:18:04 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Dead Corpse
started us on a journey to infinity, and beyond

Entropy is reversible 100% of the time in places like Hollywood, Industrial Light and Magic, comic books, Hitchhikers Guide, and Obama's head. For the rest of us in the real world, eventually no one lifts the weights and the clock stops ;-)


3,073 posted on 02/12/2013 10:30:39 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: NicknamedBob

I blame the oceans.

Methuselah had the longest recorded life span in the Bible.

He also died in the year of the great flood.

I rest my face.


3,102 posted on 02/13/2013 9:24:52 AM PST by ArGee (An open mind is like an open window - if you don't have a screen, you get flies.)
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