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Why We Fall Apart

Posted by timothy on from the ask-chinua dept.

DM_NeoFLeX writes "An article in the September 2004 IEEE spectrum raises some interesting ideas comparing aging in organic organisms to aging in Electronic/Electrical systems. From the article: "The [reliability theory] is so general it can be applied to understanding aging in living organisms...In the ways that we age and die, we are not so different from the machines we build.""

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  1. Mirror of article. by tod_miller · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to the article the fountain of use is temporarily unavailable.

    shucks.

    I'll post the article for anyone else having problems with the site:

    Service Unavailable

    The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.

    Cryptic, i'll give you that, but I expect they will find out the question to the answer soon enough.

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