That too. Everybody was crippled to an extent but when Tsunade overcame her blood issue, she pretty much settled the fight.

This gives me the urge to create deep sea compatible armor, get a well crafted sword and go hunting.

I shall bring the God lobster to his knees............

This thought makes me want to climb into bed and wait for death.

If this is true then we need to figure out why the fuck their cells don't lose their reproductive ability or randomly change their growth patterns. Immortality and the cure to cancer in one.

thats kind of terrifying.. Ctulobster

are you fucking kidding? im buying a very large pond and a lobster right now, i shall have my family watch it for generations, one day the god of the sea shall conquer the world but spare my bloodline as its guardians

Hello friend.

so youre telling me if i fuse my dna with that of a lobster i could achieve both immortality (biological) and i could be a fucking giant?

You would also taste good with butter

Well, there's no actually evidence that suggests they are "immortal"; All we can say with certainty about lobsters is that they can grow to a very old age.

the guy just said they never age and are biologically immortal. okay lets entertain the idea that they live for say several hundreds of years since humans have like an average life of less then 100 years with some exceptions. so if i cross the double helix of me and a lobster will i become a giant who is hundreds of years old?

Well, cross genetics manipulation is very.... complicated. Their long life span has less to do with their DNA, and more to do with the telomeres at the end of their DNA. See when humans age, the end parts of our DNA is essentially taken off, with each new cell made, a part of the DNA goes away. But at the end of our DNA is just blank slate, so that is the first to go, eventually it actually starts to get into our real coding.

Now the Lobster is one of two possibilities, either A) their telomeres degrade at a much slower rate than ours, or B) they just do not degrade.

unfortunately there is no way to duplicate that using cross genetics, but we can study it and see if we can do something to make the trait available to us.

and now to the giant part, Lobsters grow very slowly...... Very very slowly. It takes them 100 years to get to 40 lbs. Now they do age slowly, and will die of disease/lack of energy, so they are not "immortal" but they do continue to grown until they die, so if you could find a way to access the genetic coding of the lobster in theory, you could become a giant, but there is a flaw to that, in such that as you grow larger and larger, you will require more and more metabolic energy to do just about anything.

well i knew that about telomers in humans. i found out about them in 12th grade i think because i had a class and some ap bio people were in it. reguardless. is there any way we know of aside from complete insane ideas like reverse engineering their telomers and then re-writing ours with theirs to make ours last longer? isnt there something about cancer cells like they could make us immortal but they instead give us cancer?

Kinda like this

Until of course you reached a point of homeostasis within your cells where you have so many in you, that they cannot reproduce fast enough to replace all the cells you are losing, which then has two cases A) you stop growing B) you die. kind of a toss up there really.

Cancer cells are what happen when a cell just keeps reproducing and going through mitosis indefinitely, thus making an over abundance of them. That is all cancer is. What you're referring to is the fact that the cancer cells are capable of doing this because the telomers do not degrade at all. We have looked into it, and i think there are a few major studies into it, but it is incredibly risky. If they were to say implement it, it would have to go into every cell in the body essentially. Imagine one thing goes wrong, every cell in your body suddenly becomes cancerous, never ending mitosis on a massive scale. You would grow twenty feet over night! Become a giant, but unable to feed yourself due to the overwhelming amount of food you would need, and also the rate at which you would grow would be exponential because of the fact that more, and more, and more cells are producing each and every time.

The only thing I've ever truly heard of that was considered "actually" immortal was that crazy jellyfish. Here's a picture of it, the Turritopsis Nutricula I do believe it's named.

Quite indeed, it is actually so primitive it just merely does not die, yet stops growing, and immune to most any viruses, it just has no higher functions.

...to me it seems like it would be easier to try to figure out how to splice our DNA with that of that jellyfish. Or am I wrong in thinking this?

Definitely wrong in that sense. The jelly fish is immortal because it is literally 99% water. it pretty much has such little cellular activity that it just doesn't age. To splice our DNA with it would ultimately do nothing

well, it might be even easier to upload our mind to a computer? Or remove our brain from our bodies, and forge them wih some kind of machine. Idunno, but it would make you less dependant on food etc... all you had to do was make sure your brain got whatever it needs to survive, and make sure it reproduce its cells fast enough not to die/forget whatever happened two minutes ago..

The flaw in the argument with machine conversion is that you still have to keep your body/brain safe somewhere, you can keep it in the robot's body, but your brain will decay over time and it will age over time, eventually dying. If we were to say transfer consciousness over to the robot as a whole, there is a massive moral conflict with that, because there is no understanding of what actually makes humans sentient like we are. Our brain just functions, and if we put our memories and so forth into the robot, would we actually transfer over with it, or would it just be some version of us with our memories that doesn't have an underlying portion of us.

visa vi, the soul is the main concept here. It's just a question of if it can be put into the robot.

You dense piece of shit

I wouldn't say dense...I'm just saying...It could be possible...Probably not right now in this current day and age, but one day.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBjeMkjtKOg

The first thing you must understand about atheism, is that I would bet that 80% of Western Atheism comes from some form of apostasy, which is undeniably a process, today at least, that fills many holes of ignorance about religion and religion-related thought. There is a severe majority of blindness in the religious group compared to atheists, and it's not elitism, it's just an inevitable shift of balance. When atheists don't have this supernatural subject to explain certain things, they are forced to look at the sciences of things, as much as a theist looks to their god.

I've read a lot and completely disagree. That sounds almost completely backwards. First of all, you'll have to explain how atheism is a religion, then you'll have to explain how it generates "tons of hate, prejudiced, ignorance, elitism, and blind faith", and how atheists can't be just as joyful as the positives of the religious.

Not saying atheist cant be joyful and positive im sure there are ton of joyful and positive atheist out there. But do you even see the front page of fj? If it doesnt have a post bashing religion its an off day. And thats just one site, I personally know 4 atheists in real life who consider themselves elite and above others for their belief. And how anyone who believes in religion are sub human. Atheism just means you refuse to believe in a god right? Well from everything that Ive seen the way they carryout their faith in no faith is protest and try and pick fights with people over beliefs.

The first thing you must understand about atheism, is that I would bet that 80% of Western Atheism comes from some form of apostasy, which is undeniably a process, today at least, that fills many holes of ignorance about religion and religion-related thought. There is a severe majority of blindness in the religious group compared to atheists, and it's not elitism, it's just an inevitable shift of balance. When atheists don't have this supernatural subject to explain certain things, they are forced to look at the sciences of things, as much as a theist looks to their god.

Theres not a single thing in the world that involves humans that does not breed hate. Atheism creates tons of hate, prejudiced, ignorance, elitism, and blind faith in their religion. If you dont believe that atheism is a religion than you need to read some. Religion creates this too but it creates more hope, joy, and happiness than almost anything else in the world

I've read a lot and completely disagree. That sounds almost completely backwards. First of all, you'll have to explain how atheism is a religion, then you'll have to explain how it generates "tons of hate, prejudiced, ignorance, elitism, and blind faith", and how atheists can't be just as joyful as the positives of the religious.

Not saying atheist cant be joyful and positive im sure there are ton of joyful and positive atheist out there. But do you even see the front page of fj? If it doesnt have a post bashing religion its an off day. And thats just one site, I personally know 4 atheists in real life who consider themselves elite and above others for their belief. And how anyone who believes in religion are sub human. Atheism just means you refuse to believe in a god right? Well from everything that Ive seen the way they carryout their faith in no faith is protest and try and pick fights with people over beliefs.

The first thing you must understand about atheism, is that I would bet that 80% of Western Atheism comes from some form of apostasy, which is undeniably a process, today at least, that fills many holes of ignorance about religion and religion-related thought. There is a severe majority of blindness in the religious group compared to atheists, and it's not elitism, it's just an inevitable shift of balance. When atheists don't have this supernatural subject to explain certain things, they are forced to look at the sciences of things, as much as a theist looks to their god.

This isn't anti-religion.
It's really not what this was about.

that's... not really the point of this post... you should probably get that stupid looked at, you might be eligible to leech money off the government.

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