Christian Sommer was just a German marine-biology student
in Rapallo, a small city on the Italian Riviera, is on the verge of solving a
timeless question; is immortality possible? Sommer went snorkeling everyday to
get samples that he could catch in his net. When he went home he puts what he found
in Petri dishes. He caught hundreds of
samples and out of them he caught immortal jelly fish. When they were put into
the Petri dish, Sommer noticed that instead of dying like all of the rest of
the samples, the jelly fish did not die. In fact they did not even age. Their
aging was reversed until their earliest stages of life then stared their life
over again. After a quarter of a century we now know that the jellyfish do this
when under assault. Scientist are also trying to find if this can be used to be
an advantage for humans. I believe that messing with the possibility of immortality
is not right. If this is achieved, what would happen to the human population? Soon
there would not be enough room on Earth for people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html?ref=earth&_r=1&
Immortality is something that would be a huge disaster for thre earth if humans were able to have it. For jelly fish it is fasinating, but it doesnt affect the worlds food and natural resources like it would for humans. Humans dont need it. we live a great 70-80 years. Gaining access to this would mean living possibly hundreds of years. The earths population would skyrocket. There would be a shortage of food. Oil would be gone fast, and water would become a scarcity. It would be a disaster to become immortal. I hope the day never comes that we discover how to.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is good for the jelly fish to have immortality, but if humans were able to figure out how to do it i think it would be a disaster. The humans resources are already scarce as it is and if you extended the humans life expectancy by a couple hundred years then it would make the population explode ad the resources wouldn't be able to support the population.
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