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Posted on Aug 27, 2004, 7 a.m.
By Bill Freeman
Betterhumans is giving deserved attention to the work of Leonid Gavrilov and Natalia Gavrilova. They have extended reliability theory - developed for use with complex electronic machines in the 1950s - into the realm of the human body and life span: "We are like machines made up of redundant components, many of which are defective right from the start.
Betterhumans is giving deserved attention to the work of Leonid Gavrilov and Natalia Gavrilova. They have extended reliability theory - developed for use with complex electronic machines in the 1950s - into the realm of the human body and life span: "We are like machines made up of redundant components, many of which are defective right from the start." Machine failure rates and human death rates are very similar in form - which should not be too surprising. Reliability theory predicts no fixed upper limit to life span: "Even small improvements to the processes of early human development - ones that increase the numbers of initially functional elements - could result in ... a significant extension of human life."
View the Article Under Discussion: http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-08-26-3
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View the Article Under Discussion: http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-08-26-3
Read More Longevity Meme Commentary: http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/
