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Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship

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585 points mocko | 3 comments | 25 May 12 14:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jasonadriaan ◴[25 May 12 15:15 UTC] No.4023812[source]▶
It's incredibly difficult to overstate the importance of this moment for science and humanity as a whole. The commercialization of space travel is the only way that we will ever see the stars, as no longer are we at the mercy of the fluctuating interest in space travel from the already over-extended tax payers of certain nations. This is a beautiful moment for humanity, and a damn awesome way to start the weekend!
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1. sliverstorm ◴[25 May 12 17:17 UTC] No.4024472[source]▶
It's incredibly difficult to overstate the importance of this moment

I tire of statements like this. Either you have no capacity for exaggeration, or I have grossly misunderstood and the docking is actually more momentous than the discoveries of fire, DNA, germ theory, cell theory, flight, and nuclear physics combined.

Now, if we figure out how to beat aging and live forever, that is something whose impact might be difficult to overstate.

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2. mossplix ◴[25 May 12 18:18 UTC] No.4024763[source]▶
living forever would lead to our extinction ... in along run our genome would adapt and we would become sterile
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3. Dn_Ab ◴[25 May 12 18:54 UTC] No.4024924[source]▶
Evolution does not work that way. Evolution does not refine beyond what is good enough, it does not refactor. Genomes do not adapt, genes which encode phenotypes that are best at getting its owners to maximize reproduction with respect to an environment are selected for.

Most importantly, if we could cure aging and necessarily cancer, then you can bet we would have the sophisticated understanding of genes, proteins and cells required to fully control our genome.