There is a species of jellyfish which is functionally immortal. When they get too old they simply turn into children again and re-age.
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Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
functionally immortal
Biologically immortal is the term you were looking for
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, I meant functionally. As in practically. For all intents and purposes. As in under normal conditions.
It’s like if I said “You meant ‘searching for’ and not ‘looking for’”, when looking indicates visual searching.
In other words it’s a meaningless distinction in the usage and I would look like a real dickhead pedant if I insisted you use another word.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I came here to say this… that shit is insane.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 6 months ago
What if they get eated
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Then they’ll be unfunctionally immortal.
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is what I mean by functionally.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sort of like humans, but we turn into children again and die. Oh well.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fantastic.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Do you think jellyfish grow in trees?
mc900ftJesus@lemy.lol 6 months ago
Ahh immortality, I’m jelly.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I automatically read this in Zoidberg’s voice.
mattd@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Do you think you just fell out of the jellyfish tree?
PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Pothetato@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This graphic is going counterclockwise and I didn’t enjoy that. On the other hand, neat.
pyre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I disagree, time should flow left to right and by the nature of the egg it starts with top-to-bottom. so you have to start on the left, go to the bottom, keep going right, then the jellyfish rises so go back to top and then complete the circle
Redfox8@mander.xyz 6 months ago
But what came first? The jellyfish or the egg??!!
somethingp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If you change your orientation, this could still be clockwise
Benjaben@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yep if I look at the back of my phone, instead of this, it is indeed!
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Jellyfish are creepy and gross, they’re like living sea mushrooms.
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mushrooms are creepy and gross too, when you get to know them.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
fungi are conceptually lovecraftian horrors but in practice they’re basically just strange plants, and i find that neat.
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I hate mushrooms with a passion tbh, not just the way they taste, but even seeing them growing in the wild grosses me out. Disgusting things, I’d eat bugs before resorting to eating mushrooms.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nooo they’re so cool. I could watch them all day.
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Fair enough, they just creep me out for some reason lol.
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 6 months ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The proud moment in every jellyfish’s life when the buds come in.
ignotum@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In stasis, it bends but won’t break us
Aurelia, majestic as a lion’s roar embodies her
Terranean, threaten and shield us
Endanger, recoil and rewind the tapes
She’s born again
[…]
Medusa, a haunting allure
Elusive ectoplasmic residue
She’ll dance for you
Inducing hydro-cosmic dreams in you
Of eternal blueprole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I’ve never read this, and I don’t know if it’s even a song or a poem or what… and yet somehow, I get the feeling that they’re lyrics to a TOOL song.
Entropywins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Haken - sempiternal beings I had to look it up cause I was 100% with you on thinking TOOL.
marcos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well, it’s wild, but there’s not a lot of fuck in it.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 6 months ago
Kinda fit, they have no fuck to give too.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They also track sunlight so you can predict where they will be at certain times in areas with shade. Example: more likely to be closer to eastern shores in the mornings, further out at night.
subtext@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t believe any single part of this, it just can’t be true
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
the more you learn about how different species work the more your current worldview absolutely crumbles into dust and you see reality for the lawless mess that it is.
Barnacles are crustaceans, if you slice one in half you see that it’s a fucked up deformed crayfish sitting inside the shell.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 months ago
One species is immortal, and just does this cycle again when it gets old.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 6 months ago
Stomata@buddyverse.one 6 months ago
And you can’t eat them :(
vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Why do you think that?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Jellyfish are cnidrians which also include corals and sea anemones. Jellyfish are a specific lifecycle stage of medusozoans (their own subphylum), while corals and sea anemones are anthozoans (another subphylum of Cnidria).
So yup, they are polyps before sexual maturity.
Aermis@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You just made up all those words.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Jellyfish are a subcagetorum of cthulonic phteven
Klear@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
You neved heard phylum before? You phylustine!
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
All words are made up.