Name: NOVA scienceNOW:55 - 我的車能不能長生不老，替換身體零件，我們能不能延緩衰老，人類冬眠。 (NOVA scienceNOW:55 - Can My Car Live Forever,Replacing BodyParts,Can We Slow Aging,Human Hibernation)
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON (Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History): Hi, I'm Neil deGrasse

Tyson, your host of NOVA scienceNOW, where this season we're asking six big questions.

Some folks seem to be built to last. This guy is 91!

CHUCK YOGI (Honolulu Heart Program Participant): I'm 96.

WOMAN (Jewish Centenarian): Ninety-seven.

SAMUEL HARANO (Honolulu Heart Program Participant): Ninety-eight.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: These people live long and healthy lives. So what's their secret?

CYNTHIA KENYON (University of California, San Francisco): They're like 90-year-old people

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: And what if you could replace your broken down human organs as easily

as you replace the muffler on your car? Researchers insist that day is coming, and sooner than

DORIS TAYLOR (University of Minnesota): I absolutely see a day where there will be jars

of kidneys, jars of livers and jars of lungs, whatever it is you need.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: They're growing body parts in the lab.

So if you can make a working living lung, then it seems to me...

HARALD OTT (Massachusetts General Hospital): ...build, literally, any organ.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Could we cheat death if we were guaranteed replacement parts?

DORIS TAYLOR: It really makes you go, "What is life?" the first time you see something

beat that was dead. It's one of those "yes" moments in life.

JASON LEIGH (University of Illinois, Chicago): Can I live forever?

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Just in case our human bodies can't live forever, this computer scientist

is trying to design virtual replicas, avatars, that will.

JASON LEIGH: An avatar is an instance of yourself that's digital, that will never die.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Inspired by Star Trek and Superman.

MARLON BRANDO: (As Jor-El, Superman/Film Clip):You do not remember me. I am your father.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: He thinks we can build digital copies of real people that will carry

our thoughts, memories and wisdom into the future, for all posterity.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: All that and more, on this episode of NOVA ScienceNow.

You know, we take it for granted that nothing lasts forever. And that's true of life itself.

Every living thing will eventually break down and die. But does it have to be that way?

We begin our show with a man who seems to have done the impossible. He's completely

stopped the natural decay and death that all of us expect; not for himself but for his

IRVIN GORDON (Car Owner): My name is Irvin Gordon. My car now has 2,741,000 miles on

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: You heard him: more than two-point-seven million miles. The Guinness

Book of Records says it's the highest mileage automobile in the world.

IRV GORDON: Every time the car goes go out, I break my own record and make it harder for

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: And they'd have over four decades of catching up to do. He drove

his new Volvo off the lot 44 years ago, and he and his car have been going strong ever

IRV GORDON: You don't have to be the fastest to drive a million miles, you got to just

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: So this is your baby, huh?

IRV GORDON: This is my baby. Don't touch that car.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: It's hard to understand how a car can last so long, look so good and

ride so well after all those miles. Irv's car has the same mileage as all of the Apollo

moon landings combined! How many places on Earth and things to do take you 3,000,000

IRV GORDON: Commuting 125 miles a day, to and from work.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: One-hundred-twenty-five miles round-trip?

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Are you retired now?

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: So, retired from what?

Most of the nearly 3,000,000 miles have come from 44 years of crisscrossing the country.

The odometer turns over every hundred-thousand miles. Do the math, it's turned over...

IRV GORDON: Twenty-seven times; it's on its 28th.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: So, what does Irv do to get his car to live forever? Well, number

IRV GORDON: I just do the things it says to do, when it says to do them.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Things like regular tune-ups and oil changes. Irv figures he's gone through

110 tires, 440 spark plugs, 788 oil filters and 3,143 quarts of oil!

Sounds like there could be some lucrative endorsement deals.

IRV GORDON: I'm still waiting for my first box of oil filters.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Tip number two: if something's broke, fix it. Replace the worn-out parts.

Old cars drip oil. How much do you just drip out of this car?

IRV GORDON: You can go underneath my car with a rag, and you won't find any oil.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: That's because, over the years, Irv has placed his car into the

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Richie Vermont serviced the car, from when it was brand new, until

he retired seven years ago. He's replaced three clutches and countless brakes and mufflers.

Irv's maintenance bills helped pay for the education of Richie's kids.

RICHIE VERMONT (Auto Mechanic): I tell you, I sent my kids to college.

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: The engine has been rebuilt twice, first by Richie, after 680,000 miles,

IRV GORDON: There was nothing wrong with the oil pump, but I figured after 2,000,000 miles

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