The 2,000,000th post game

PASSION PLAY:
Mickey Rourke/Marv, Whiplash

Megan Fox/April O’Neil, Lois Lane

Rhys Ifans/The Lizard

Chris Browning/Reactron

TODAY IS

7 bottles of beer on the wall,
7 bottles of beer.
Take one Down, pass it around,
6 bottles of beer on the wall.

So how is it gonna be?

Will you come along peacefully?

Or do I have to get rough?

Is it the former or the latter?

Because if you choose the latter I need to tell you...

I am NOT a fan of the rough stuff. Just saying.

AND

Two things are certain in this world: We are born, and we die. But must we? Billionaire Dmitry Itskov and his group the 2045 Initiative want to cheat death by creating artificial bodies to house human intelligence.

Immortality isn’t merely a 21st-century quest. In the third century B.C., Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang ingested mercury to gain eternal life. It didn’t work.

Reviving the dead for real was a focus of the Soviet Union’s Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy, overseen by Sergei Bryukhonenko.

While we humans obsess about achieving immortality, other organisms seem to do it effortlessly. In 2014, scientists revived Pithovirus sibericum, a virus preserved for 30,000 years in Siberian permafrost, simply by letting it thaw.

The most famous case of cancer-based immortality is that of Henrietta Lacks, who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Cells from her malignancy were cultured and used to start a cell line, called HeLa, which lives on to this day in research labs around the world.