The Saber-toothed Tigers and Human Specifications

i must thank the notoriously nice Mike for leading me to the site from which i gleaned the following. i think that the whole discussion about aging is spot on. the concept of engineering and medical science to keep us alive long after we should have succumbed to the tiger in the jungle is not only witty, but quite insightful as well. and if you want to get the old plateletes scurrying about in an accelerated manner, read the posts from 31 dec on to now. just what frikin good is the UN, anyway?