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A live-stream broadcast of China’s military parade has captured Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discussing biotechnology’s potential to extend life.

An interpreter translating Mr Putin can be heard saying in Mandarin that human organ transplants could let “us live younger and younger, and perhaps even achieve immortality”.

Mr Xi responded that it may be possible for people to live to 150 years this century.

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    8 days ago

    These people are idiots, because that’s definitely not how aging works. But please go through all the organ transplants, it will just kill you both and do the world a big favor.

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      8 days ago

      It’s weird because Xi is a chemical engineer. Putin and Kim I understand being gullible and clueless about scientific matters but I don’t expect the same from Xi.

      • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        smart people are wrong sometimes

        issac newton thought he could synthesize a philosophers stone

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        8 days ago

        Engineers disease is a thing. I understand heat transfer, therefor I can understand everything

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        7 days ago

        Maybe they are lying to Trump about this, since he is freaked out about dying, to get some kind of favor or financing, or just to taunt him