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 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
functionally immortal
Biologically immortal is the term you were looking for
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I came here to say this… that shit is insane.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
What if they get eated
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Then they’ll be unfunctionally immortal.
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is what I mean by functionally.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sort of like humans, but we turn into children again and die. Oh well.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fantastic.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Do you think jellyfish grow in trees?
mc900ftJesus@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Ahh immortality, I’m jelly.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I automatically read this in Zoidberg’s voice.
mattd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do you think you just fell out of the jellyfish tree?
PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Pothetato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This graphic is going counterclockwise and I didn’t enjoy that. On the other hand, neat.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
But what came first? The jellyfish or the egg??!!
somethingp@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you change your orientation, this could still be clockwise
Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep if I look at the back of my phone, instead of this, it is indeed!
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Jellyfish are creepy and gross, they’re like living sea mushrooms.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mushrooms are creepy and gross too, when you get to know them.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
fungi are conceptually lovecraftian horrors but in practice they’re basically just strange plants, and i find that neat.
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Nooo they’re so cool. I could watch them all day.
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Fair enough, they just creep me out for some reason lol.
ultrahamster64@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The proud moment in every jellyfish’s life when the buds come in.
ignotum@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Haken - sempiternal beings I had to look it up cause I was 100% with you on thinking TOOL.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, it’s wild, but there’s not a lot of fuck in it.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 weeks ago
Kinda fit, they have no fuck to give too.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I don’t believe any single part of this, it just can’t be true
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
One species is immortal, and just does this cycle again when it gets old.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 weeks ago
Stomata@buddyverse.one 2 weeks ago
And you can’t eat them :(
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Why do you think that?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
You just made up all those words.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jellyfish are a subcagetorum of cthulonic phteven
Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You neved heard phylum before? You phylustine!
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
All words are made up.