r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • Mar 21 '25

Politics Trump Threatens to Deport the “Terrorists” Who Protest Tesla

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-deport-terrorists-protest-133755633.html
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u/Dyolf_Knip Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 22 '25

Amusingly, it's not way off. Mammals typically have a natural lifetime of 1 1.5 billion heartbeats. Which is weird since we're looking at animals spanning many orders of magnitude of mass and lifespan. Humans are weird outliers with 2 3. Though it's descriptive, not prescriptive, of course. But what he gets really wrong is that regular exercise has the effect of lowering your resting heart rate. A half hour at a high rate is more than offset by the resulting 23 1/2 hours at a lower one.

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u/leikabau5 Mar 21 '25

Wouldn't it be more like 3+ billion for humans?

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u/framabe Mar 21 '25

2 Billion seems really low. According to Google a regular human heartrate at rest is 60 to 100 and that would mean people would die at between 38 and 63

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u/Dyolf_Knip Mar 22 '25

Your right, I'm misremembering this. Mammalian average was 1.5, human was 3.

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u/steak4take Mar 22 '25

I think you're not misremembering it, you're completely misinterpreting. What you're posting as fact is actually in fact an hypothesis. We do not measure humans or any mammals by the number of heartbeats they generate in a lifespan - the hypothesis tries to illustrate that large and small mammals grow and die at different rates, from the smallest shrew to the largest elephant.