The maximum age hasn’t changed because its increase is irrelevant for the sake of trait propagation. In fact, fast breeding population with regular turnaround can deal with environmental fluctuations way better than a long living one.

There’s nothing inherent to multicellular biology that prevents immortality. Every problem preventing us from living longer and healthier has been solved by evolution somewhere else. Often in a way that’s insultingly similar to how our bodies already work. Hell, good chunk of solutions is present in our genome never to be expressed!

But then evolution is all about populations of borderline inadequate survivors. Turns out, being depressed, hurting, and cancerous in your fifties is just good enough.

Is king riding barefoot?

Thorium reactors have a cleverly dumb failsafe. If reactor control fails, there’s a plug that melts and drains the contents into a container that’s not fit for runoff neutron generation.

That’s an example of a failsafe that fits its purpose. It’s still possible to fuck it up, but it would take a lot of effort to do so.

And if there’s a bug in that code, you’re fucked.

Safety features should work if everything else fails. Their failure mode can’t be “fuck it, it didn’t work”. Which is directly opposite to the failure mode of a subscription based service.

The don’t and they do.

Some myths are just clingier than a tick embedded in a hair follicle.

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