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* "things that fly live longer than things that don't"
* "things that fly live longer than things that don't"
* Don't waste too much time exploring what nature has had plenty of time to explore by herself
* Don't waste too much time exploring what nature has had plenty of time to explore by herself
== Notes from Truth ==
- convex hull approach. look at all the weird species/examples which come close to doing something extreme. see how they fail.
    - hydra. low level organism effectively immortal. sexual version senseces, asexual version has immortality. what does that tell us about sexuality, death, and senescence?
    - immortal jelly fish
    - lobsters appear to undergo obligate growth. keep growing or die.
    - syndrome X
    - progeriate.
    - peter's/ petos? paradox
    - long-lived aquatic live. greenland sharks, whales, things that fly, big animals.
    - systems in which we don't get cancer. we don't get heart/neural cancer. very low rates of mitosis repair
    - brisstle cone pines
    - salamanders and neuts
    - rhisomes. quaking aspin.


== List of Extremophiles ==
== List of Extremophiles ==
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