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valenci [Edit] [Delete] 8 replies 15:07, 23 October '14

Having seen this in the improvements thread, thought this was worthy of its own.

Could any sciency types clarify if we can steal/replicate bits of these dudes so we can live forever as long as we manage to avoid getting run over?

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Oh for fu...

meths | 23 Oct '14, 15:09 | X

Lucien and badmanreturns this'd this
we can

you just need to stun one of these and then eat it raw. Then again, I've done more physics than biology.

foppyish | 23 Oct '14, 15:09 | X
- no rude "jokes" here please
  
  foppyish @foppyish | 23 Oct '14, 15:10 | X
Immortal jellyfish

umlaut_ampersand | 23 Oct '14, 15:10 | X

ohgood, Gorkys_Forever, Royter-Hatfood, meths, and ElthamsmateOwen this'd this
what the colonial stage?

dans?

"it is the only known case of an animal capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage"

noise_ramones | 23 Oct '14, 15:11 | X
- Um.
  
  its basically like a butterfly reverting back to a caterpillar. Except the caterpillar lives in a colony.
  
  Sort of. (Not my area)
  
  Dans @noise_ramones | 23 Oct '14, 15:26 | X
  - ah yeah makes sense
    
    I was momentarily confused as the phrase colonial period makes me think solely of the victorians talking about the white man's burden
    
    noise_ramones @Dans | 23 Oct '14, 15:53 | X
'deterioration of the bell'

no thanks.

DanOccupanther | 23 Oct '14, 15:13 | X

blisters this'd this

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