Things you wish didn't wear out

It sucks ween music equipment break, its like losing a limb.

Ah, well, that’s a relief. It has been some time since I’d had to bang on anything. I tend to think my electronics understand they don’t have to turn on if they don’t want to. We have an relationship like that.

I’d like to say I’ve used my musical equipment enough for them to be showing age, but I really haven’t. And the last item that showed promise of being used more often was stolen several years back… Now that I’m in an apartment, I can’t really use an amp. Honestly it’s been some time since I’d even played some of my bass.

Youre a bass player too? Rare sight nowaday.
I had an amp break a time back but me and a friend spent basicaly a whole day fixing the stupid thing.

I uh… I play Bass Clarinet. Need to buy one of those because of how much fun it is to play. And as for things that I wish didn’t wear out, I’m going to leave it at ā€œliterally everythingā€.

Bass Clarinet… that isnt really the same thing, never heard of anyone playing it so props.
But nothing can beat a magestic Gibson though.

I know it’s not nearly the same thing, but still.

Cool websites. One of my favorite websites for Japanese lore hasn’t paid for the domain, so now it’s a generic ad site. sigh…

Alot of things :slight_smile: but here’s my 3
Car Tires
Gameing chair
Shoes-the one thats very expansive

The Human Body

Our dna

Hey! It’s speaker guy! I have you my car! Sounds great!

i used to work at a store that sold old games/systems. i made sure all the systems were cleaned and working. I tore them all down and rebuilt them. best thing i found for the old cartridges is a very light rub with one of those pink nail files. a lot of times its the system itself. the only thing that goes out in a nes is the pin connector. and half of them screw in. other half are soldered. anyways, basically everything wears out.

Honey doesn’t rot.
Honey can last for centuries and still be perfectly fine.
Honey is awesome.

honey is literally sugar. sugar is hygroscopic, or very low water. very few bacteria can live in it. its also VERY acidic - with a ph of 3-4. about the only thing that can survive -not grow, survive, is botulism. and if your over a year old, it wont bother you. thats why you dont give honey to babies.

Honey is the perfect sugar replacement in tea for those allergic (read: me).

Gum.

It’s 2015.

I need everlasting gum.

And I’m glad things wear out… The Second Law of Thermodynamics is my sort of Law. :wink:

Dna keeps regenerating within a cell’s nucleus. It’s the telomeres that wear out, the shoestring caps on the ends of dna strands that start messing up the rna synthesis. That’s what causes aging.

Now if you do mean just dna, so it doesn’t degrade, then I’m hesitant to agree with you. Cuz then we’d have Jurassic park possibilities and… Well, you’ve seen the movies :stuck_out_tongue:

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I meant as a whole, including telomeres as well. It could be more though, like genes that get inactivated and dont repair dna or telomeres as much which causes cell degeneration over time. As for the telomeres, how the hell do they repair rna? Are they dna of the dna? Some code that’s hidden in structure of atoms or parts of molecules?

Telomeres are the stops on DNA strands, like the periods of a sentence. Once they start getting jacked up, then the DNA strands that encode protein synthesis get wonky, and the proteins are either made wrong, in the wrong amounts, or not at all. As this occurs to more and more cells in a tissue, then the whole operation starts messing up. If telomeres didn’t wear out, then aside from cancer cells (which the body has measures against and stops from forming all the time), then we could potentially live forever. I’m overly simplifying it, but that’s basically the case.