Immortality Is Possible
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Immortal Jellyfish Apparently, this certain type of jellyfish is capable of reverting to a less developed state and then redeveloping, repeatedly and without end. I'm not sure if I'd like that particular type of immortality. You'd have to become a baby every 70 years or so, and you'd probably forget everything you learned in that lifetime... or, uh, growth period. On a related note, check out the life cycle of a jellyfish: jellyfish life cycle I think I need one of these as a pet.
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Immortal Jellyfish Apparently, this certain type of jellyfish is capable of reverting to a less developed state and then redeveloping, repeatedly and without end. I'm not sure if I'd like that particular type of immortality. You'd have to become a baby every 70 years or so, and you'd probably forget everything you learned in that lifetime... or, uh, growth period. On a related note, check out the life cycle of a jellyfish: jellyfish life cycle I think I need one of these as a pet.
However, if you didn't quite forget everything, breast feeding on a regular basis could prove interesting.
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However, if you didn't quite forget everything, breast feeding on a regular basis could prove interesting.
Depends on if you're mom is immortal too, in which case that could just get weird.
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However, if you didn't quite forget everything, breast feeding on a regular basis could prove interesting.
viaducting wrote:
breast feeding on a regular basis could prove interesting
Too bad if you are lactose intolerant (like me). :)
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Immortal Jellyfish Apparently, this certain type of jellyfish is capable of reverting to a less developed state and then redeveloping, repeatedly and without end. I'm not sure if I'd like that particular type of immortality. You'd have to become a baby every 70 years or so, and you'd probably forget everything you learned in that lifetime... or, uh, growth period. On a related note, check out the life cycle of a jellyfish: jellyfish life cycle I think I need one of these as a pet.
aspdotnetdev wrote:
You'd have to become a baby every 70 years or so
Take my word for it, it takes less than 70 years. ;P
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viaducting wrote:
breast feeding on a regular basis could prove interesting
Too bad if you are lactose intolerant (like me). :)
My .NET Business Application Framework My Younger Son & His "PET"
That works out perfectly. When you inevitably let loose in your diaper, you get the woman you just breast fed off of to take your undergarments off. :)
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Immortal Jellyfish Apparently, this certain type of jellyfish is capable of reverting to a less developed state and then redeveloping, repeatedly and without end. I'm not sure if I'd like that particular type of immortality. You'd have to become a baby every 70 years or so, and you'd probably forget everything you learned in that lifetime... or, uh, growth period. On a related note, check out the life cycle of a jellyfish: jellyfish life cycle I think I need one of these as a pet.
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viaducting wrote:
breast feeding on a regular basis could prove interesting
Too bad if you are lactose intolerant (like me). :)
My .NET Business Application Framework My Younger Son & His "PET"
Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
Too bad if you are lactose intolerant (like me).
All infant mammals can digest lactose; most stop producing lactase (the enzyme that allows milk to be digested) at between 3% and 5% of their lifespan. This helps force the critter off of mother's milk and on to regular food. So if you were to revert to childhood and "regenerate," presumably you could drink milk again. For what it is worth, about 75% of the human population either stop producing lactase after infancy, or produce it at a greatly decreased rate. The 25% who are lactose tolerant in adulthood are the mutants ;P
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Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
Too bad if you are lactose intolerant (like me).
All infant mammals can digest lactose; most stop producing lactase (the enzyme that allows milk to be digested) at between 3% and 5% of their lifespan. This helps force the critter off of mother's milk and on to regular food. So if you were to revert to childhood and "regenerate," presumably you could drink milk again. For what it is worth, about 75% of the human population either stop producing lactase after infancy, or produce it at a greatly decreased rate. The 25% who are lactose tolerant in adulthood are the mutants ;P
Gregory.Gadow wrote:
presumably you could drink milk again
And this time I will like it. :)
My .NET Business Application Framework My Younger Son & His "PET"
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Immortal Jellyfish Apparently, this certain type of jellyfish is capable of reverting to a less developed state and then redeveloping, repeatedly and without end. I'm not sure if I'd like that particular type of immortality. You'd have to become a baby every 70 years or so, and you'd probably forget everything you learned in that lifetime... or, uh, growth period. On a related note, check out the life cycle of a jellyfish: jellyfish life cycle I think I need one of these as a pet.
Awesome! However, as much as I can think of lots of uses for being immortal (My TODO list! Completed! Woohoo!) I'm not sure how I'd use a mouse if I only had jellyfish tentacles to work with. Keyboarding would be easy, but the wheel on that mouse? That's going to cause problems.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Awesome! However, as much as I can think of lots of uses for being immortal (My TODO list! Completed! Woohoo!) I'm not sure how I'd use a mouse if I only had jellyfish tentacles to work with. Keyboarding would be easy, but the wheel on that mouse? That's going to cause problems.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Since everyone else would be a jellyfish too, we / they would develop jellyfish-friendly input devices. And just think how fast you could type, with all those tentacles! Good luck with the TODO list: if it is anything like mine, getting something off it appears to spontaneously generate two more items. It's a sort of ToDo-hydra composite really. :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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Since everyone else would be a jellyfish too, we / they would develop jellyfish-friendly input devices. And just think how fast you could type, with all those tentacles! Good luck with the TODO list: if it is anything like mine, getting something off it appears to spontaneously generate two more items. It's a sort of ToDo-hydra composite really. :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
OriginalGriff wrote:
ToDo-hydra
My new favourite term.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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According to some it's extremely close already, google "Actuarial escape velocity" for some interesting reading.
Yesterday they said today was tomorrow but today they know better. - Poul Anderson
Very interesting. Only problem is, I remember people saying exactly the same thing back in the 70s when I was a kid. I recall someone on one of the TV programmes saying that "children today have a good chance of living for ever" or at least a very very long time. All I can say is they'd better hurry up...
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Very interesting. Only problem is, I remember people saying exactly the same thing back in the 70s when I was a kid. I recall someone on one of the TV programmes saying that "children today have a good chance of living for ever" or at least a very very long time. All I can say is they'd better hurry up...
Well, I was a kid in the seventies and I ain't dead yet.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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Well, I was a kid in the seventies and I ain't dead yet.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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Awesome! However, as much as I can think of lots of uses for being immortal (My TODO list! Completed! Woohoo!) I'm not sure how I'd use a mouse if I only had jellyfish tentacles to work with. Keyboarding would be easy, but the wheel on that mouse? That's going to cause problems.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
TODO list complete? Will never happen, especially with me since I'm married. Wives never let the TODO list get empty. Not long after we were married and moved into our new place, my wife start a printed todo list for me which she put on the fridge. Despite my best efforts it continued to grow (it grew even faster after my worst efforts). When it got to the bottom of the page I warned the wife that she wasn't allowed to start a second page - so she reprinted the list with a smaller font :doh:
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
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Well, I was a kid in the seventies and I ain't dead yet.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
How about now?
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TODO list complete? Will never happen, especially with me since I'm married. Wives never let the TODO list get empty. Not long after we were married and moved into our new place, my wife start a printed todo list for me which she put on the fridge. Despite my best efforts it continued to grow (it grew even faster after my worst efforts). When it got to the bottom of the page I warned the wife that she wasn't allowed to start a second page - so she reprinted the list with a smaller font :doh:
Graham Librarians rule, Ook!
That's how the Tories are reducing waiting lists...
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Very interesting. Only problem is, I remember people saying exactly the same thing back in the 70s when I was a kid. I recall someone on one of the TV programmes saying that "children today have a good chance of living for ever" or at least a very very long time. All I can say is they'd better hurry up...
Back in the 70's I was reading things like 'Methuselah's Children' by Isaac Asimov. Perhaps the first Methuselah Foundation. But as for living longer, given the state of things, why would you wish to? :~ This might be the golden age as far as most things still exist, but the future doesn't seem to indicate that will always be the case.
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Immortal Jellyfish Apparently, this certain type of jellyfish is capable of reverting to a less developed state and then redeveloping, repeatedly and without end. I'm not sure if I'd like that particular type of immortality. You'd have to become a baby every 70 years or so, and you'd probably forget everything you learned in that lifetime... or, uh, growth period. On a related note, check out the life cycle of a jellyfish: jellyfish life cycle I think I need one of these as a pet.
The only kind of immortality that's interesting is immortality of the consciousness of self-sameness, which requires memory. The immortality of a jellyfish is no more interesting than the immortality of a rock. Even the immortality of the consciousness of self-sameness is, as a practical matter, an illusion. Any being that is complex enough to be conscious of a self changes over time, to the point where what one was in the past may be completely repudiated by what one is now, or profoundly regretted by what one has become. Any interesting form of immortality is, ultimately, undesirable, and we should thank God that it does not exist.
