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RICH: Average life expectancy in 1900 was only 47. By 2000, up to 77.
RICH: We’re still gaining, on average, another year of life every five years. Thanks to medicine, technology, the iPhone, etc.

DELIA: So we’ve been going about our immortality project wrong, then. Aiming way too high. Trying to stop aging entirely.
DELIA: When all we really need to do is retard it by eighty percent – so we’d age at the same rate that lifesaving medicine advances.

RICH: That almost seems too easy.
DELIA: Yeah, for an eighty percent slowdown all we’d need is what, 50 gallons of gerbil blood?
RICH: And an egg whisk, yeah.

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#359; In which Rich reads Statistics transcribed by in

RICH: Average life expectancy in 1900 was only 47. By 2000, up to 77.
RICH: We're still gaining, on average, another year of life every five years. Thanks to medicine, technology, the iPhone, etc.

DELIA: So we've been going about our immortality project wrong, then. Aiming way too high. Trying to stop aging entirely.
DELIA: When all we really need to do is retard it by eighty percent - so we'd age at the same rate that lifesaving medicine advances.

RICH: That almost seems too easy.
DELIA: Yeah, for an eighty percent slowdown all we'd need is what, 50 gallons of gerbil blood?
RICH: And an egg whisk, yeah.

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{{alt-text: race you to the pet store}}

race you to the pet store

#359; In which Rich reads Statistics

  — December 4th, 2007

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !
A young David Malki !, Steve Carey, and Ryan North, June 2006.

The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.

It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.

I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!

Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]


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