In a recent article from Bryan Nelson, Mother Nature Network, the hydrozoan jellyfish can live forever. This is by manipulating their cells—reversing its age process.
According to Nelson, the only known animal to do so.
The jellyfish is populating around the world. In the report, Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said, “We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion.”
The question is, do you want to live forever?
If there was a way to find the formula for the “Fountain of Youth” for humans, would it create a human invasion?
The answer for the first question is a difficult one. Would I be able to grow older with growing older? If so, then I would love to live forever. There’s nothing like actually being the only human to say, “I know it all.” And I would have the body of a 30-year-old man for about 200 or so years.
However, the problem is, how bored would I get?
Well…if NASA could get off its ass and use its money to good use, because they have a ton of it, then I wouldn’t be bored at all. While traveling the Earth would get boring after 100 years or so, being able to live on Pluto would be awesome. Our galaxy’s farthest moon, kinda.
Living forever—that’s what it would take in order to travel the WHOLE universe. According to unitconversion.org, there are 5,878,625,373,183.61 statute miles to every one light-year. Knowing this, it would take forever to travel the universe.
The only real problem is, if I did decide I was bored, could I just get rid of the “manipulating cells” thing?
I hope so, nothing like being stuck in a life form for as long as the Dodgers’ World Series drought.
