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[Mark Hamalainen]

Those last legs are not binary though. As long as they are still standing, they are weakening.

Unless you're suggesting that this negligibly senescent state lasts only long enough for that last single base of DNA to be oxidized, in which case the time frame is rather short....

Or in other words, you're saying that when there is only one more straw necessary to break the camels back, the time between the second last straw and the last is where negligible senescence occurs. But the time between the second last and the last is no longer than between the third last and the second last... shorter if anything.

[apocalypse]

Those last legs are not binary though.  As long as they are still standing, they are weakening.

Unless you're suggesting that this negligibly senescent state lasts only long enough for that last single base of DNA to be oxidized, in which case the time frame is rather short....

Or in other words, you're saying that when there is only one more straw necessary to break the camels back, the time between the second last straw and the last is where negligible senescence occurs.  But the time between the second last and the last is no longer than between the third last and the second last... shorter if anything.

Mutations will still be occuring and accumulating, but we're at such a point where most, if not every, tissue's redundancy has been seriously exhausted. Dmg may continue to go on in the background only so long as it doesn't impair any single one of the few vital remaining functional units thus crippling a vital function for organism survival. The moment at which detrimental dmg will strike and impair any single one of these last remaining vital components, is a random event whose probability of occuring remains constant throughout the passage of time.

[Mark Hamalainen]

And you call that negligible senescence?

[apocalypse]

And you call that negligible senescence?

Well, in an ironic way [thumb]