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The one resource you spend every second of, whether you mean to or not.
means The duration of a person's life, or the full span over which something exists or functions.
from A transparent compound of Old English 'lif' (life) and 'tima' (time, a season or appointed stretch). Both halves are old Germanic stock; the two words have been bolted together since at least Middle English, naming the simple, unavoidable fact that a life and the time it occupies are the same thing measured two ways.
- average length
- Roughly 4,000 weeks, give or take a few
- jellyfish loophole
- Turritopsis dohrnii reverts to youth, dodging death
- heartbeat budget
- About 2.5 billion beats per human life
- old as galaxies
- Some stars outlive entire generations of suns
for instance
jeanne calment — french woman who lived 122 years 164 days (1875-1997), longest verified human lifespan
methuselah bristlecone pine — great basin bristlecone pine in california, over 5,000 years old, longest living organism