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Immortality Lyrics – Bee Gees – LyricsFreak.com

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So this is who I am, And this is all I know. And I must choose to live, For all that I can give, The spark that makes the power grow.

And I will stand for my dream if I can, Symbol of my faith in who I am, But you are my only.

And I must follow on the road that lies ahead. And I won't let my heart control my head. But you are my only.

We don't say goodbye. We don't say goodbye. And I know what I've got to be

Immortality. I make my journey through eternity. I keep the memory of you and me inside.

Fulfill your destiny. Is there within the child? My storm will never end. My fate is on the wind. The king of hearts, the joker's wild.

But we don't say goodbye. We don't say goodbye. I'll make them all remember me.

'cause I have found a dream that must come true. Every ounce of me must see it through. You are my only.

I'm sorry I don't have a role for love to play. Hand over my heart I'll find my way. I will make them give to me..(yeah)

Immortality.(oh baby) There is a vision and a fire in me.(oh) I keep the memory of you and me, inside.

We don't say goodbye. We don't say goodbye. With all my love for you. And what else we may do?.. We don't say goodbye.

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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Disk 2 Episode 10-17 Anime Review – Quest For Immortality – Video

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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Disk 2 Episode 10-17 Anime Review - Quest For Immortality
I plan to see if I can get out another disk review of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood later this week. Anyways FMAB Episode 10,11,12,13,14,15,16, and 17 were freaking awesome...

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Biological immortality – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Biological immortality refers to a stable or decreasing rate of mortality from cellular senescence as a function of chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species may achieve this state either throughout their existence or after living long enough. A biologically immortal living being can still die from means other than senescence, such as through injury or disease.

This definition of immortality has been challenged in the new Handbook of the Biology of Aging,[1] because the increase in rate of mortality as a function of chronological age may be negligible at extremely old ages, an idea referred to as the late-life mortality plateau. The rate of mortality may cease to increase in old age, but in most cases that rate is typically very high.[2] As a hypothetical example, there is only a 50% chance of a human surviving another year at age 110 or greater.

The term is also used by biologists to describe cells that are not subject to the Hayflick limit.

Biologists chose the word "immortal" to designate cells that are not subject to the Hayflick limit, the point at which cells can no longer divide due to DNA damage or shortened telomeres. Prior to Leonard Hayflick's theory, Alexis Carrel hypothesized that all normal somatic cells were immortal.[3]

The term "immortalization" was first applied to cancer cells that expressed the telomere-lengthening enzyme telomerase, and thereby avoided apoptosisi.e. cell death caused by intracellular mechanisms. Among the most commonly used cell lines are HeLa and Jurkat, both of which are immortalized cancer cell lines. HeLa cells originated from a sample of cervical cancer taken from Henrietta Lacks in 1951.[4] These cells have been and still are widely used in biological research such as creation of the polio vaccine,[5] sex hormone steroid research,[6] and cell metabolism.[7] Normal stem cells and germ cells can also be said to be immortal (when humans refer to the cell line).[citation needed]

Immortal cell lines of cancer cells can be created by induction of oncogenes or loss of tumor suppressor genes. One way to induce immortality is through viral-mediated induction of the large Tantigen,[8] commonly introduced through simian virus 40 (SV-40).[9]

According to the Animal Ageing and Longevity Database, the list of organisms with negligible aging (along with estimated longevity in the wild) includes:[10]

Tardigrades, also known as "water bears", are highly resilient microscopic animals. They are capable of surviving extremes such as heat, radiation, drought, and the vacuum of space by going into a 'tun' - essentially a shrivelled blob - a type of suspended animation (Cryptobiosis) where their metabolism slows to near zero and they simply wait out the harsh conditions until the environment is more favorable.

However they are not "immortal".[11] It has been estimated that a tardigrade would have a life span of less than a year if it never entered the cryptobiotic state. However, one that alternates active with cryptobiotic periods might survive for as long as sixty years - though more typically up to 10 years. The maximum known was a museum specimen of moss that had been kept dry for one hundred and twenty years which yielded a number of tardigrades. When the animals were moistened, a few of them revived, but all died within a few minutes.

Many unicellular organisms age: as time passes, they divide more slowly and ultimately die. Asymmetrically dividing bacteria and yeast also age. However symmetrically dividing bacteria and yeast can be biologically immortal under ideal growing conditions.[12] In these conditions, when a cell splits symmetrically to produce two daughter cells, the process of cell division can restore the cell to a youthful state. However if the parent asymmetrically buds off a daughter only the daughter is reset to the youthful state - the parent isn't restored and will go on to age and die. In a similar manner stem cells and gametes can be regarded as "immortal".

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5 Reasons Immortality Would be Worse than Death | Cracked.com

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If you're reading this, congratulations on having achieved the primary goal with which we begin each day: You have avoided death.

We're big on this idea of not dying. We love stories of immortal vampires and invincible superheroes, each of us wishing on some level that was us. If we didn't have to worry about death, we could finally get shit done.

But could we? If you take a moment to think about it, you realize immortality is grossly overrated.

Contrary to what many people believe, humans are still evolving. That's not a big deal if you have the kind of immortality that only lasts 1,000 or 2,000 years, but of course real immortality means you'll still be walking the earth, in your current body, a million years from now.

Science has no idea where future mutations might lead us by that point, so it's anyone's guess what your neighbors will look like in the future. You, on the other hand, will be walking around as the future equivalent of this:

Their bodies and brains are going to continue to adapt to an ever-changing world. Yours won't. Will your digestive system be able to handle the same food they eat? Will your brain enjoy the same entertainment? Will your non-evolved tongue even be able to speak the languages they speak in the year one million AD? Would an unfrozen caveman be able to do all of that now?

One thing we do know: You won't be getting any lovin'. It turns out that mother nature hates inter-species breeding, and is such a big cockblocker that science had to come up with a name to describe it: Reproductive Isolation. It's the reason there aren't packs of ligers or centaurs roaming around.

Basically, it's nature's complicated "the triangle doesn't go in the square hole" law, with a bunch of subset rules that will kill off your children if you decide to take a hammer to the triangle. Meaning that as that species further evolves, there is no possible chance for you to create a new species closer to your own that you could stand to look at for five minutes.

Of course, that's assuming that you're even safe walking around among the members of this new freak species. Will they treat you like a novelty and cast you in hilarious insurance commercials, like the Geico cavemen? Or will they do to you what current humans would do if they finally caught Sasquatch roaming around through the forests (that is, stick you in a zoo)? Though whatever the freak-species decides to do with you won't be as bad as no sex for the rest of your life. Who knows, maybe someone will decide to make you the donkey in their next show.

And it's probably irrelevant, since your inability to make friends with mortals will go out the window long before then...

Let's say some kid goes rummaging around in your basement, finds that witch's old portrait of you and discovers that you are immortal. Word spreads and suddenly you're famous the world over. Sure, a lot of people might not buy the story at first, but folks have become famous for much less.

Sounds pretty sweet, right? Probably get a reality show out of it. But that's just scratching the surface. You're not just going to be famous; you're going to be a god. You have eternal life, which means you must know the secret to eternal life, which means you will immediately be the center of the world's newest and most popular religion. You'll be like a guy revealing himself to be Jesus, and proving it. Why would anyone continue to worship an invisible deity when they have a god walking around amongst them? Each morning your yard will be packed full of several thousand terminally ill people, or parents with their sick kids, asking you to grant them the same immortality you have.

That, of course, is assuming a government or crime syndicate doesn't get to you first. Literally every powerful and wealthy person on Earth will decide that in your veins pumps the one thing they can't buy: freedom from death. They're not going to stop until they've spent every penny they can spare to see if they can turn your blood and organs into unending life for themselves. Think about the wars that are being fought over oil. The secret to eternal life would be worth far, far more.

So we're not talking about the occasional blood test and urine sample here and there while they let you stay in some five-star facility. It's more like you getting kidnapped and kept in some damp underground shack away from any civilization while they go balls out on your organs E.T.-style.

"Just contact our concierge if you need anything."

Get comfortable, because since nobody will know where you are, they can keep you there for as long as they want.

But let's say you give them the slip, and successfully keep your secret under wraps with a series of new identities. It's going to get awfully hard to keep track of all of them, because...

We're not saying that if you were to be magically granted immortality, you'd eventually get Alzheimer's anyway--we assume that the Elixir of Life you sipped will keep your brain physically young just like the rest of you. We're saying it won't matter.

Imagine if your cell phone number changed every week, and every week you were forced to memorize the new one. It gets exponentially harder because all of those old numbers are still in your memory, clogging up the works. Then imagine someone asked you to instantly recall the number you had five numbers ago.

"Wait! It had a six in it."

That's one reason your memory degrades as you get older. Your brain and its ability to store and recall memories is limited, but the amount of stuff you're asking it to remember keeps piling up over the decades.

That's a problem because your brain relies on not just storing information, but being able to rapidly recall it at a moment's notice. As time goes on, more and more memories pile up, along with names and dates and birthdays and anniversaries. Your brain can keep all that stuff organized for a while (say, the span of most of a normal human lifetime) but it's not like you can go into your brain and just delete files like cleaning up a hard drive. So useless stuff starts accumulating, clogging up the works and slowing everything down, like all those toolbars on your mom's Internet browser.

"Thanks, Yahoo!"

Your immortal life and experiences may be infinite, but your brain's ability to store and recall them is not. It wouldn't be very long before your brain is piled up with junk like one of the houses on Hoarders. Your body will be young, but you'll still be forgetting people's names and telling the same jokes to the same person twice in one day. Though you'll still be perfectly capable of giving a grumpy speech on where you were when the World Trade Center was destroyed and how kids in the future have it so easy.

And, even if you find a way around this, you still have to deal with the fact that...

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Nutritionist reviews Google exec’s ‘immortality diet’ – Video

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Nutritionist reviews Google exec #39;s #39;immortality diet #39;
Google executive Ray Kurzweil #39;s, #39;immortality diet #39; is sort of unorthodox, but scientifically healthy. Patrick Jones (@Patrick_E_Jones) asked registered dietician nutritionist Christy Harrison...

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Martine Rothblatt: "AI, Immortality and the Future of Selves" | SXSW Live 2015 | SXSW – Video

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Martine Rothblatt: "AI, Immortality and the Future of Selves" | SXSW Live 2015 | SXSW
Martine Rothblatt, CEO of United Therapeutics and author of Virtually Human: The Promise and Peril of Digital Immortality, speaks with New York magazine #39;s Lisa Miller about...

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TRANSHUMAN Quantum Computing to Grant Immortality by 2035 1080p – Video

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TRANSHUMAN Quantum Computing to Grant Immortality by 2035 1080p
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I read Chapter 2 of Immortality and the Unseen World by W.O.E Oesterley – Video

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I read Chapter 2 of Immortality and the Unseen World by W.O.E Oesterley
I read Chapter 2 of Immortality and the Unseen World by W.O.E Oesterley. The Old Testament Teaching on the Constituent Parts of Man Of the audiobooks that I have recorded, this is one of...

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Pearl Jam – Immortality – The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA-10/27/09-Night 1 – Video

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Pearl Jam - Immortality - The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA-10/27/09-Night 1
Pearl Jam - Immortality - The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA-10/27/09-Night 1-20th row floor left; sect. 101 row 20 seat 4-(My 21st Pearl Jam concert)-This was part of 4 concerts (10/27,28,30,31)...

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