Henry's Cavern

Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

The title says it all:

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/26/the-world-s-only-immortal-animal.html

Seriously, this is some weird shit. At least they're not totally immortal, you can run them over or if they have some natural predator they can be eaten.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:59 am Post subject:

Wow, that's kind of awesome.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Yeah, but it's still weird. Maybe they can be used for stem cell research.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:25 am Post subject:

Eh... I'd be a little surprised if Jellyfish cells would be any use implemented in humans.

Maybe there's some sort of practical application though.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Yeah, that would be weird.

But if they can manipulate their cells like that, maybe it can be used for cures for terminal illnesses.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:35 am Post subject:

Maybe. I still think jellyfishes would be fundamentally different from human.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Perhaps so, but it's no different with anti-venom considering that the antibodies used to fight poison come from horses.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:41 am Post subject:

Yeah. I guess it's possible. Don't know much about that srot of stuff, I suppose.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

That's because biology was one of my favorite classes in high school. Hell, I still remember a bunch of stuff that would gross out the average human if they knew.
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Phil the Time Wizard · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:47 am Post subject:

Yeah, didn't really stay with me.
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Selrahc · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 8268 Location: The sky

Eh it's cool. We're all different so it's not like I expect you to remember that stuff anyway.
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