{"id":114557,"date":"2020-10-16T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/maverick-life-who-wants-to-live-forever-the-immortal-hydra-already-does"},"modified":"2020-10-16T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T18:23:09","slug":"maverick-life-who-wants-to-live-forever-the-immortal-hydra-already-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/maverick-life-who-wants-to-live-forever-the-immortal-hydra-already-does","title":{"rendered":"Maverick Life: Who wants to live forever? (The immortal hydra already does)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/maverick-life-who-wants-to-live-forever-the-immortal-hydra-already-does3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are we? What are we composed of? What is matter? What does matter? Is the body just a vessel with an expiration date?\u201d asks American rapper GZA from Wu-Tang Clan, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redbull.com\/int-en\/episodes\/living-forever-liquid-science-s01-e02\">Liquid Science<\/a>, the show about science and imagination he hosts on Red Bull TV. In this episode, GZA is on a \u201cquest to understand the human desire to live forever\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to find answers to such questions is nothing new. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/transhumanist-eternal-life-no-thanks-id-rather-learn-not-to-fear-death\/2019\/11\/15\/74c566f2-072e-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html\">an opinion piece<\/a> for <em>the Washington Post<\/em> titled \u2018\u2018Transhumanist\u2019 eternal life? No thanks, I\u2019d rather learn not to fear death\u2019, Arthur C Brooks explains that, back in the fifth century before Christ, Greek historian Herodotus wrote about \u201ca race of people in northern Africa who, according to local lore, never seemed to age\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Eternal youth and immortality have always fascinated humanity, but we\u2019ve not had much success finding them. Until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWho are we? What are we composed of? What is matter? What does matter? Is the body just a vessel with an expiration date?\u201d asks American rapper GZA from Wu-Tang Clan, in Liquid Science, the show about science and imagination he hosts on Red Bull TV. In this episode, GZA is on a \u201cquest to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}