I'd love to be immortal.

People would still die from accidents etc. It would probably slow down how much we reproduce because if it didn't we'd need space travel fast.

Space empire made of of immortal humans anyone? Sounds cool. We'd overwhelm all the aliens. Maybe even probe some of them?

I wanna eat one.

Immortality would be arguably one of the most horrific tortures when you think about it. Mortality makes life have so much more meaning.

This doesn't propose immortality.

This prevents death from old age. I can still take that jellysfish, rip it open, and kill it.

Not so immortal.

I know what you mean. I played Lost Odyssey, t'was very good and talked about that subject. You have to see a lot of people that you love die during your immortal life... That must suck.

That's not the worlds only immortal anmal though.

Turtles don't age once they hit adult form... the only reason turtles die are sicknesses and the like.

I want one!

I think the population spike probably has more to do with the fact that the population of this jellyfish's natural predators are in decline.

I mean, call it a hunch.

Well, if you consider the Animalia regnum, then it's certainly a very unique case, in which the cells of the main body act like perpetual steam cells, able to differetiante and return to the original state constantly.

The DNA repair system of that jellyfish must be nothing short of amazing, if you take in consideration that a normal DNA repair system in animals corrects 10^6 mutations per replication cycle, and the Telomerase (The enzyme which repairs the Telomers, the terminations of each chromossome which dictate chromossomical age) can repair 10^4 uncopied Telomers. Even so, most animals have limited time span due to continuous DNA degradation, even with the DNA repair system.

But this case is nothing new if you look into the Prokaryota regnum (bacteria and archae), since the specimens of that regnum have a separate DNA system, the Plasmid DNA. That system is used to create proteins and enzymes that can protect the Prokaryotes from virtually anything, and have massive DNA repair systems.