Immortaility at last! >:}

[Alondro]

Gentlemen, BEHOLD!!

I have made jellyfish that can live forever!

The world shall fall to their tentacles!   

I see a potential usefullness in learning what gene pathways are used to revert adult stem cells to an embryonic state, thus allowing patients to grow their own grafts at last! 

And allow me to become IMMORTAL LEADER OF THE CHARLEK EMPIRE!!!  MY CHARLEKS SHALL RULE THE UNIVERSE!!   

Charleks have tentacles too.   

[superluser]

Can I eat it?  Can it eat me?

Unless the answer to either of those is yes, I'm thinking ``Don't want none, won't be none.''

This jellyfish still has nothing on Byron the Immortal Light Bulb.

[Robbychu]

While the prospect of tentacles is appealing to mai fangirl senses, I'd like to know if this would require becoming a mental infant before becoming an immortal tenta-monster.

That and... it's a damn JELLYFISH. They're as bright as bricks and these guys clearly aren't being eaten fast enough. FETCH THE TURTLES.

[Valynth]

I see no problems with becoming an old one....

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[Sunblink]

That is SO FREAKING AWESOME. I love jellies. This makes me love them even more.

This tops that Antarctic shrimp that scientists discovered, in my book.

[Teroniss]

Ehh, that article is actually fairly inaccurate as there are 2 other known creatures in the sea that have "Eternal Youth" or lacking senescence (aging).

The first is the lobster, who through many studies has not shown any sign of the aging process. Once they reach a certain size in fact, it seems as though time stops indefinitely for them.

The others are Hydras, which have been found to have an indefinite celluar division.

[techmaster-glitch]

The thing about these jellyfish is that the literally reverse their age, which I don't think the lobster or the hydra does

[Teroniss]

The thing about these jellyfish is that the literally reverse their age, which I don't think the lobster or the hydra does

True, but immortality is immortality. I'm not one to question it or how it works.

[Shachza]

Ehh, that article is actually fairly inaccurate as there are 2 other known creatures in the sea that have "Eternal Youth" or lacking senescence (aging).

The first is the lobster, who through many studies has not shown any sign of the aging process. Once they reach a certain size in fact, it seems as though time stops indefinitely for them.

The others are Hydras, which have been found to have an indefinite celluar division.

Hydras are also incredibly basic life-forms, not much more complex that clumps of identical cells.  I could say bacteria live forever because they don't change or die really, they just split in half.

The lobster and jelly are pretty complex and much more impressive to me.

[rabid_fox]

I don't want to go through puberty backwards.

[Drayco84]

How about repeatedly, to boot?

[ooklah]

  It's just as I FEARED so many years ago! THEY ARE going to take over the world!!!

... I need a net, flame thrower and a boat... this needs to stop before it gets any worse...

[Sunblink]

It's just as I FEARED so many years ago! THEY ARE going to take over the world!!!

... I need a net, flame thrower and a boat... this needs to stop before it gets any worse...

A flamethrower would be an ideal weapon for killing things underwater?

You might wanna rethink that...

[Mao]

It's just as I FEARED so many years ago! THEY ARE going to take over the world!!!

... I need a net, flame thrower and a boat... this needs to stop before it gets any worse...

A flamethrower would be an ideal weapon for killing things underwater?

You might wanna rethink that...

I think that the net and boat would be used to get them out of the water so that the flamethrower could be applied.  However, I'd be cautious as boats and nets are quite often susceptible to fire...

[Robbychu]

It's just as I FEARED so many years ago! THEY ARE going to take over the world!!!

... I need a net, flame thrower and a boat... this needs to stop before it gets any worse...

A flamethrower would be an ideal weapon for killing things underwater?

You might wanna rethink that...

I think that the net and boat would be used to get them out of the water so that the flamethrower could be applied.  However, I'd be cautious as boats and nets are quite often susceptible to fire...

Perhaps a steampowered boat would be better suited for the purpose? Chuck them in as fuel? That, or just get some sea turtles. They eat jellies.

...TURTLES!

[Alondro]

Ah, but attacking the jellies could have severe ramifications!  They could begin to use complex and powerful machines to move about in to protect their fragile, tentacled bodies from the flamethrowers and turtles.

Such as:  Jellyleks

Then we will be doomed.   

Or, they might use this method of anti-turtle protection:  Krang is a jellyfish

Either way, things will not go well for us.

[Drayco84]

Sic Chuck Norris on 'em.

That guy kills everything. However, we may have to wait until they kill his dog, first...

[Sunblink]

Sic Chuck Norris on 'em.

That guy kills everything. However, we may have to wait until they kill his dog, first...

Don't answer your door.

[VAE]

Sic Chuck Norris on 'em.

That guy kills everything. However, we may have to wait until they kill his dog, first...

Don't answer your door.

ltorv@tux$ kill -9 `ps -e | grep chuck_norris | cut  -f 1 -d ' '`

Linus Torvalds can kill Chuck Norris!

[ooklah]

You're right, a boat might not be the best idea, they've already capsized a 10ton boat... I'll need to rethink my plan a bit...

[Robbychu]

...This is going to be really bad.

Quick! Get a Pikachu, jellies are something like 90% water!

[Netrogo]

Now if they could just hurry up and figure out how to apply this to humans, a happier me I would be.

[VAE]

Now if they could just hurry up and figure out how to apply this to humans, a happier me I would be.

Not only happier, a lot longer living too!

[Sofox]

Eh, we won't ever have true immortality in this world until they develop a cure for HBAB Syndrome (Hit By A Bus Syndrome).

[Alondro]

Eh, we won't ever have true immortality in this world until they develop a cure for HBAB Syndrome (Hit By A Bus Syndrome).

Simple, have all your cells be able to live independently, like slime molds.  Then all the bits of you from the bus collision will just ooze back together! 

Now, vaporization by an atomic bomb blast is a whole different problem.  I dunno how you fix that lil weakness.

[Chairtastic]

Now, vaporization by an atomic bomb blast is a whole different problem.  I dunno how you fix that lil weakness.

Quite simple really. You open your mouth wide and eat it before it gets to vaporizing your digestive track.

[Omega]

Alondro, would it be possible to get a real publification of this story?  While I do enjoy these popularized versions for their time saving properties, I'd still like to see the actual studies a bit more detailed.

[Alondro]

Now, vaporization by an atomic bomb blast is a whole different problem.  I dunno how you fix that lil weakness.

Quite simple really. You open your mouth wide and eat it before it gets to vaporizing your digestive track.

You mean like the way Neliel Tu Odverschwank in "Bleach" can eat a Cero and fire it back with her's added in?  *otaku madness!*