LordOfTheFish Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth. Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life). Full Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurges-Ahter Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I think it should be renamed to "turritopSION nutricula" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Avlectus Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Well, okay. However it would need to be able to survive being cut up a bazillion times like it was nothing. @ Article...Hoo boy. I can just see the implications if this is found to be fact. Genetics scientists will want to make some serum for limitless lifespans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawathehutt Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Can they survive the vacuum of space and pretty much anything else? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade Waterbears have cooler names too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Well Scientists have been wanting to play god for years by expanding life span, and now with this new discovery they will be jumping for joy to get at this chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mav Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 My mom still says that I act like a child sometimes, guess what jelly fish, you ain't got nothing on me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Pictured: The person responsible for this. the jellyfish couldn't carry anymore so he had to drop it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlos Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Pictured: The person responsible for this. the jellyfish couldn't carry anymore so he had to drop it Interesting. Updated my journal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKA-001 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 **** this *******, who cares if he can live forever? He's a jellyfish, who cares? **** him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimartin Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Genetics scientists will want to make some serum for limitless lifespans. How do you know there isn't a serum like this today and we are just not sharing it with you? He's a jellyfish, who cares? You mean besides the scientific community studying them? Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute.[/Quote] I am Conner McJellyfish of the clan Turritopsis Nutricula. I was born in 1518 in the Caribbean off the shores of Cuba. And I am immortal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TKA-001 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 You mean besides the scientific community studying them? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChAiNz.2da Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Yes. rhetorical question –noun a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Avlectus Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 How do you know there isn't a serum like this today and we are just not sharing it with you? Because people talk and you wouldn't be able hide it for long. Besides, ageless doesn't mean indestructible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverandbacon Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I am Conner McJellyfish of the clan Turritopsis Nutricula. I was born in 1518 in the Caribbean off the shores of Cuba. And I am immortal. Well, if they needed to kill each other in duels because there can only be one, we wouldn't have this overpopulation problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimartin Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Well, if they needed to kill each other in duels because there can only be one, we wouldn't have this overpopulation problem. We have to deal with the overpopulation until the time of the gathering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 "Turritopsis nutricula: She was there when you were born and she will be there when you die"....sounds like a bad horror movie lol As for the quote in the main article saying that "they're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters", it might no be due to their so-called "immortality" (if not cut into pieces) but articles say they're about 5mm in size) but to maritime transport: when ships fill up their ballast tanks at one location they can easily "swallow-in " several of these medusae and then empty everything (including mimartin) at another remote location. This is just an uninformed guess..mimartin certainly knows better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 It is nice for that jellyfish. The closest in human terms I have seen is enhanced regeneration studies in mice. Gene therapy here we come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litofsky Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Hmm. Now, we have only to capture several thousand for dissection, and the key to immortality shall be ours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Rider Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Wouldn't the obvious problem with this be genetic diversity? Sure with a jellyfish, that's not a big deal, but in the case of people, if you had a million people spreading the SAME genes for a million years, it would seriously stunt evolution and diversity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavlos Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Wouldn't the obvious problem with this be genetic diversity? Sure with a jellyfish, that's not a big deal, but in the case of people, if you had a million people spreading the SAME genes for a million years, it would seriously stunt evolution and diversity. Medical science has rendered a good deal of natural selection null and void in the West, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 It is nice for that jellyfish. The closest in human terms I have seen is enhanced regeneration studies in mice. Gene therapy here we come! i wanna shoot bees from my hands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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