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.

This link is much more interesting than the posted article. I saw a jellyfish aquarium years ago and thought it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen.

I wish the site had some indication of price ranges.

Get your roommate to post, please. Definitely hacker news for us biologist types here.

I'm hoping that it is one of his aquariums in the film Seven Pounds, and that he tells people "I do all Will Smith's jellyfish work".

Yes, please!

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

Or maybe Wikipedia is doing the lifting? Any way to tell?

A look at revision history vs the publication of the original article?

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?

I suspect it is the second. Also, people just want to look younger, "forever young" as it were. If people could look young right up to when they die, and then quietly slip away, they might not care about death so much.

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.

or maybe pollution can kill them. Hm.. or maybe global warming and destruction of habitat. We should do more of these!

Looks like someone forgot to add a 'break;'

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