'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world

I have to plug my roommate's startup here because it's not too often "jellyfish" are on HN.

Jellyfish Art (http://www.jellyfishart.com) makes custom jellyfish aquariums. Keeping jellyfish alive in captivity is actually a hard problem that has only recently been solved.

I will definitely try to get my roommate to post his story on here. Though it's not hacker related at all, it's a pretty fascinating startup and probably a good break from reading about all things web 2.0.

Here's an interesting and related article about how some species of turtles also don't exhibit signs of aging:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/science/12turt.html

If we could only squeeze oil out of them.

When I first saw this one of my friends pointed out that several passages are lifted straight from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula

Does anyone else find himself thinking: Hm... why is this article in mainstream media? Is it because everyone craves for immortality? Is it because people are scared of invasions? Is it because people want to feel better that humans aren't the only ones that reproduce and expand their territory seemingly endlessly?

If the jellyfish is reverting to its immature state, calling it "immortality" sounds like a Ship of Theseus problem. Although it's still a remarkable trick for a higher-order organism.

If PBS makes a show about them, it will at least be better than that Benjamin Button POS.

I hope they are human-eatable? That will control their population for sure.

Looks like someone forgot to add a 'break;'

<Slashdot>I for one welcome our new invertebrate overlords</Slashdot>