Comments on: In the end, there can be only jellyfish http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-760845 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-760845 Interesting. Though I don't think it'll be possible to bind a book with them. Interesting. Though I don’t think it’ll be possible to bind a book with them.

]]> By: VICTOR JIMENEZ http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-760865 VICTOR JIMENEZ Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-760865 It´s a motherfuking miracle! Like rainbows or giraffes or unicorns... eh, wait, too much ICP lately. It´s a motherfuking miracle!
Like rainbows or giraffes or unicorns…
eh, wait, too much ICP lately.

]]> By: Yamara http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-761131 Yamara Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-761131 Anon @#6 - They're biologically immortal. They need an environment that will sustain them and they need to avoid trauma (shotguns, chainsaws, hungry humans) -- so yeah, they can be <i>killed</i>. They're just are not evolved to <i>age</i>. Felton @#7 - Yes, they can bestow immortality. But only to their offspring. Remembering to ask them for eternal youth won't help. Still, this is proof that mortality and aging are not an absolute prerequisite for biological life. Next up: Zombies vs Immortal Jellyfish. Anon @#6 – They’re biologically immortal. They need an environment that will sustain them and they need to avoid trauma (shotguns, chainsaws, hungry humans) — so yeah, they can be killed. They’re just are not evolved to age.

Felton @#7 – Yes, they can bestow immortality. But only to their offspring. Remembering to ask them for eternal youth won’t help.

Still, this is proof that mortality and aging are not an absolute prerequisite for biological life. Next up: Zombies vs Immortal Jellyfish.

]]> By: JTode http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-764204 JTode Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-764204 I'm not sure if mentioning one's own related projects counts as spam - apologies if so - but a friend and I did a radio show about this very Jellyfish back in January. You can listen at the link below - it's the January 26, 2010 show. The station's archive program is a bit off, so you need to skip a few minutes through the ending of the previous show. https://secure.ckut.ca//cgi-bin/ckut-grid.pl?action=showaudio&show=tuesday,23:00 If for whatever reason the link doesn't work, go to ckut.ca, check programming and archives, and go to the Harvey Christ Radio Hour. I’m not sure if mentioning one’s own related projects counts as spam – apologies if so – but a friend and I did a radio show about this very Jellyfish back in January. You can listen at the link below – it’s the January 26, 2010 show. The station’s archive program is a bit off, so you need to skip a few minutes through the ending of the previous show.

https://secure.ckut.ca//cgi-bin/ckut-grid.pl?action=showaudio&show=tuesday,23:00

If for whatever reason the link doesn’t work, go to ckut.ca, check programming and archives, and go to the Harvey Christ Radio Hour.

]]> By: murrayhenson http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-762173 murrayhenson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-762173 As Karl Pilkington has noted on several occasions, jellyfish are 98 percent water. Since water never ages I theorize that they were already 98 percent immortal. Plus they don't have any brains or anything so what are they doing with all that immortality? Answers, please! As Karl Pilkington has noted on several occasions, jellyfish are 98 percent water. Since water never ages I theorize that they were already 98 percent immortal. Plus they don’t have any brains or anything so what are they doing with all that immortality? Answers, please!

]]> By: dainel http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-761180 dainel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-761180 That's not immortality. It's "just" eternal youth. Come to think of it, that isn't too bad either. Can I have some of it? That’s not immortality. It’s “just” eternal youth. Come to think of it, that isn’t too bad either. Can I have some of it?

]]> By: Jerril http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-761696 Jerril Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-761696 "Unaging" is a very common definition of "immortal". Contrast with Invulnerable, which is what y'all keep harping about. ;) “Unaging” is a very common definition of “immortal”.

Contrast with Invulnerable, which is what y’all keep harping about. ;)

]]> By: ili http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-760956 ili Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-760956 But if these jellyfish never die, where will they go to get away from Mormons and drunk Eskimos? But if these jellyfish never die, where will they go to get away from Mormons and drunk Eskimos?

]]> By: Cowicide http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-760957 Cowicide Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-760957 That's what they used on Cheney after they released his age progressed clone into the wild. That’s what they used on Cheney after they released his age progressed clone into the wild.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-760963 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-760963 Immortal? Meaning they can't die? Or they just don't die? If I were to shoot one twenty times with a shotgun, would it piece itself together like the metal dude in Terminator and keep coming after me? Immortal? Meaning they can’t die? Or they just don’t die? If I were to shoot one twenty times with a shotgun, would it piece itself together like the metal dude in Terminator and keep coming after me?

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-760995 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-760995 Let's cut to the chase. Can they bestow immortality? :-D Let’s cut to the chase. Can they bestow immortality? :-D

]]> By: dculberson http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-761264 dculberson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-761264 They're immortal like elves are immortal. That's Tolkien elves, of course. They’re immortal like elves are immortal. That’s Tolkien elves, of course.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-762298 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-762298 I agree with you that 'unaging' is a common usage of the word "immortal", and I don't think that said usage is necessarily a bad thing. But they aren't using the word "immortal" to describe 'invulnerability'. Look at the word itself: "immortal". That is not mortal, lacking the condition of being subject to death. I agree with you that ‘unaging’ is a common usage of the word “immortal”, and I don’t think that said usage is necessarily a bad thing.
But they aren’t using the word “immortal” to describe ‘invulnerability’.
Look at the word itself: “immortal”. That is not mortal, lacking the condition of being subject to death.

]]> By: Yamara http://boingboing.net/2010/04/14/in-the-end-there-can.html#comment-760829 Yamara Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-760829 Not news to me. I made sure that was in the lede of the Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality">Immortality</a> article years ago. Not news to me. I made sure that was in the lede of the Wikipedia Immortality article years ago.

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