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TL;DR - Ewingella americana is a git microbe which when injected in mouse veins preferentially accumulates around oxygen starved environment, that is a rapidly divided tumor. it also brings immune response around tumor, so your immune system learns to fight it. Still in Mouse phase. but toxicologically safe so could be done in human soon. almost no major side effects (just inflamation)

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I assumed medical kind of immortality, not magic. obviously that mouse is dead for the autopsy, I am not assuming the mouse will remain alive while they are being chopped up, and will outlive the heat death of the universe

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

sure but a biologically immortal mouse being dead for an autopsy doesnt make it not immortal

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you do not want absolute immorality. worse form of torture imaginable

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

there are certainly worse forms of torture imaginable

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doubt it, and if you have something to suggest it would be infinitely worse if you include absolute immortality.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so then its a modifier, but simply being immortal is not the worst form of torture imaginable. being kept alive while your skin is peeled off and then grafted back on and peeled off for example would be undoubtedly worse torture than simply being immortal. gg moving the goal posts tho

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i disagree, it might be fun the first few billion years if human civilization manages to prevail and expand into the stars. wait till the heat death of the universe, then an eternity of nothing but your mind.

and that's assuming your will get used to the pain of existing in the frozen vacuum of space.

do not underestimate eternity.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

so you disagree that simply being inmortal is the worst form of torture imaginable even though you said that any other torture + being immortal would be worse lmao

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

by itself absolute immorality is a worse torture than anything that doesn't include absolute immortality. not sure if you want to count it as a modifier or as a torture in itself.

I think at this point we're just arguing semantics, and arguing semantics is also a form of torture

[–] ngdev@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

youre torturing me that you cannot see that what you said is provably false and you even said as much. the worst form of torture imaginable is decidedly not immortality lmao i can imagine so much worse shit than that