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LEVIATHAN

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Description

As with Archimedes, it happened in a bathtub. However, instead of the physics of buoyancy, you were contemplating marine mammals after staggering the consumption of several different hallucinogens. Graduate school was the perfect time for experimentation. Alchemical vapors distort the dim light of a candle. Common sense says that a blue whale, which weighs 200,000 lbs at adulthood, should be 1,000 times more likely to develop cancer than a human. Each cell division has a small but non-negligible risk of mutation. Thus, the risk of cancer should be proportional to the absolute number of cells in the organism. In fact, the difference should be even more pronounced, since the larger animal requires a much greater number of cell divisions to achieve and then maintain its enormous body mass. The paradox is that whales and humans develop cancer at the same rate. The species are obviously different from the macro perspective, but their composition appears identical at the tissue level. What is responsible for this phenomenon? The answer must lie in the genes. Water runs off your body as your arms propel you upward and out of the cauldron. You forget which foot you are moving and some part of you catches an edge, sending your face into a tile floor. You reconstruct yourself and run, still dripping, to attack your computer. You query the recently-published genome of Loxodonta africana and observe numerous entries for multiple tumor suppressors - more than what humans possess. Eureka. The answer to the paradox is that the larger animals have more copies of the kill switches. You merge into your chair with a sense of awe and try to disentangle the psychotropic haze from the ramifications of your discovery. Instead, you materialize on top of a golden pyramid with pen and parchment, as a red sun dictates a recipe for the elixir of life.

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Contract: KT1KrT...K5B5
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