2007-03-23 07:29:44 · 8 answers · asked by Chris 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Nope, humans haven't evolved enough to get to the stage where they can replicate certain parts of the body. Our arteries get damaged, our brains wear out, and most other things in the body. Hence people having wide varities of transplants.
I think that if we lived about 50 years longer than we already do, then we'd start suffering from other things like mass athersclerosis or something along that lines, we are healthy in our lifetimes if we are lucky, having health longer than that is quite much to ask for.
New diseases would spring up, and if we were to live forever, we'd need to invent a machine that replaced body parts that we did not replace. e.g. a bone replacer machine. brain duplication, artery restoration...
it will be many years before any living creature designs an immortal lifetime, but i doubt humans will last long enough for that.
2007-03-23 13:39:44 · answer #1 · answered by Captain Heinrich 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Immortality is not possible...
when your a developing feotus you develop something called telemeres.... these telemeres cap the ends of all your chromosomes in your body as a way of protecting them...
each time your body goes through the process of cell division
a tiny amount of the telemeres capping your chromosomes is sliced off... this will go on for about 50 or 60 cell divisions... once there is no telemere left.. the chromosomes will destroy themselves... and without your chromosomes... you die!
in order to become immortal, you would need an endless supply of telemeres, the problem is, as you grow up, you will never produce any more... they can only be developed while in feotal stages...
hope this answers your question
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2007-03-23 09:04:21 · answer #2 · answered by jorja_leigh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Inmortality? What is Inmortality?
I agree with tools below...I think you have misspelled the word...I don't think Inmortality is a word.
2007-03-23 07:35:39 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly B 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Immortality would be extremely difficult in a biological body. Living systems are subject to the second law of thermodynamics and will tend, over time, to accumulate entropy.
Your best bet is to transfer your thoughts into a non-biological body (an android). If we ever develop the ability to do that, then one could, theoretically, live forever by hopping from body to body through time.
Although I would imagine that the warranty program from Radio Shack for these bodies would be really expensive.
2007-03-23 08:18:54 · answer #4 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
correct me if im wrong is that inmortality or immortality?
2007-03-23 07:38:37 · answer #5 · answered by briggs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are already IN mortality. congratulations!!
2007-03-23 07:33:38 · answer #6 · answered by canadaguy 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
i say it it! it is very possible!
2007-03-23 07:31:40 · answer #7 · answered by MiZz RuBy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
thats why we reproduce
2007-03-23 07:32:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋