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Would love to be this creature!

  • 06-06-2010 11:22pm
    #1
    ngoyvaerts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭


    The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish can live forever! This amazing jellyfish can literally change itself from an adult to its polyp( baby stage). In other words, it can reverse its aging process, meaning it can live forever. How cool is that!


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  • #2
    Kxiii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 864 ✭✭✭Kxiii


    Ah yes but could you really put up with the awkward teenage years more than once :)


  • #3
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,531 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    That is insane, do you have any links for info on this, very interesting


  • #4
    wayhey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭wayhey


    Why would it revert to its polyp stage? I mean, if it's doing that can you count it as "living forever"?


  • #5
    rockmongrel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 645 ✭✭✭rockmongrel


    The idea of living forever sounds dreadful.


  • #6
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    rockmongrel wrote: »
    The idea of living forever sounds dreadful.
    I recall being asked to write a short essay about what I'd do if I were to live forever. I recall the teacher, whose identity places it as 5th or 6th class. My answer boiled down to 'everything... and then kill myself'. The teacher was not amused. People have very little grasp of how big "forever" is.

    I'd be curious to see how this jellyfish handles memory. Is its mind too simple for that to be a problem? Or does it just gradually forget everything? (And philosophically, are you really living forever if your memory is constantly degrading? How much do you have to forget to cease being you?)


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  • #7
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,531 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    wayhey wrote: »
    Why would it revert to its polyp stage? I mean, if it's doing that can you count it as "living forever"?

    Is this the same way "The Doctor" regenerates?


  • #8
    aidoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    mikhail wrote: »
    I'd be curious to see how this jellyfish handles memory. Is its mind too simple for that to be a problem? Or does it just gradually forget everything? (And philosophically, are you really living forever if your memory is constantly degrading? How much do you have to forget to cease being you?)

    Jellies don't even have brains let alone any concious 'mind'. So they couldn't have any memories either. All their 'learning behaviour' is probably down to genes. I think the fact that they've no brain makes them more fascinating though.


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