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  • Everything scientists know suggests that this little creature is immortal.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 145

  • @bannerbomb8693
    @bannerbomb8693 8 років тому +33

    he was curious so he cut it in half XD

  • @headfangs
    @headfangs 10 років тому +100

    So what I'm hearing is we should eat hydras and steal their powers.

    • @sketchyspudley
      @sketchyspudley 6 років тому +10

      So what you're saying is we should do a Kirby.

    • @hypnozpie4071
      @hypnozpie4071 5 років тому +3

      wait if they don't die what happens if you eat them? do they multiply in your stomach? does the acid melt then kill them? i need to find out

    • @charleystarks5972
      @charleystarks5972 4 роки тому +1

      thicc glucose god they don’t die in their natural environment, take them out and they die

    • @MrKittycattwenty
      @MrKittycattwenty 4 роки тому

      @@hypnozpie4071 they can still die but they just don't die naturally, if you ate them they would die.

    • @ameer.a_r
      @ameer.a_r 4 роки тому +1

      Man you can not just eat them hydras has nematocyte that jellyfish has if you eat them they will just sting your mouth

  • @Theadventurebox3
    @Theadventurebox3 10 років тому +58

    Everything else: Eventually you must pass on
    The Hydra: I don't wanna

  • @Naked_Snake
    @Naked_Snake 10 років тому +12

    Love your voice. It's presented so soothingly :)

  • @NOSfusion
    @NOSfusion 10 років тому +51

    Hail Hydra!

  • @AveryDelMiller
    @AveryDelMiller 8 років тому +3

    Hydras are so cool, and they're all over the place. Great video 👌

  • @teacher.claire
    @teacher.claire 9 років тому +1

    I love this channel!!
    Thank you to all those who have come together to produce these vids :)

  • @benracer
    @benracer 10 років тому

    When I saw the channel name, I thought it was some non-npr channel but then I saw Robert Krulwick's name. So I'm glad I found this.

  • @Kuraakka
    @Kuraakka 10 років тому

    this is one of those videos you just want to share to every one so i did

  • @JetSetDiva
    @JetSetDiva 8 років тому +1

    Hi. Forgive the question if this has already been asked, but what software was used to make this video? I'm making a documentary and would love to have animation like this for some scenes. Thanks! Oh, and you gained a sub! :)

    • @skunkbear
      @skunkbear  8 років тому +5

      I animated this video in Adobe After Effects using watercolor illustrations.

    • @JetSetDiva
      @JetSetDiva 8 років тому

      Wow. That is impressive! That must have taken you quite some time. Thanks for the quick reply.

  • @JinKee
    @JinKee Рік тому

    We were looking at the wrong biological unit for human immortality: you know what clump of human cells can be split in half, and becomes two of itself and continually replaces old cells with new ones? A human nation.

  • @user-vc8yx2hm9r
    @user-vc8yx2hm9r 10 років тому +2

    What happens if we eat the hydra?

  • @joshuarosen6242
    @joshuarosen6242 10 років тому

    I am scientifically literate and normally don't learn a great deal from popular science videos, even if they are interesting. This video, on the other hand, was both interesting and informative.
    Hydras are clearly jolly interesting little chaps.

  • @noldyn8930
    @noldyn8930 10 років тому

    Music? It sounds really relaxing (my opinion I always liked melody music)

  • @StaryEyesxxx
    @StaryEyesxxx 8 років тому

    Where did you find the study relating maternal age and life span? I have been trying to find it (or something similar) in multiple places but with no luck. Is there any chance you still remember the researchers? I know this is a long shot but all help is really appreciated. Thank you.

    • @itzel6698
      @itzel6698 2 роки тому

      did you ever find the study?

  • @Rytonic69
    @Rytonic69 5 років тому

    Oh this is cool.
    DECAPITATIOOOOON!!!

  • @jimweaver3315
    @jimweaver3315 10 років тому

    Hmm, so if somehow you get us to do the same with our cells we could also be immortal. Something to think about.

    • @jorgemtzb9359
      @jorgemtzb9359 5 років тому

      Yes, but the problem is that our cells are really specialized. A cell specialized in something can't reproduce and it's offspring would go to make a different function .

  • @fockyoumang
    @fockyoumang 10 років тому +2

    But is that still the same hydra he took out of the pond after having every cell replaced? Is that really immortal? They aren't the same ones he originally had when he started his experiment

    • @JOblyJoobly
      @JOblyJoobly 10 років тому +4

      i don't know if you know or not but you just made a HUGE doctor who reference

    • @fockyoumang
      @fockyoumang 10 років тому +3

      The Spectator I had no idea. That seriously was the first thought that popped into my head after watching this. Same goes for the human body, all skin and nails and bones die and get replaced till it can no longer make efficient cells and the dying process begins. The body we had as infants to toddlers all the way up to 80 years if your lucky, are not the same and brain cells die and don't get replaced. All life's experiences change you constantly, so are we the us we still the same person when we die? That's was my initial thought which made me think of that to ask that question about them because it's a so much more easy example to use

    • @jonkirby6327
      @jonkirby6327 10 років тому +3

      People regenerate cells, are they the same person once all cells have been regenerated? Or is it some other person?

    • @yakojjy
      @yakojjy 10 років тому +6

      ***** Skin cells live about two or three weeks. Colon cells have it rough: They die off after about four days. Sperm cells have a life span of only about three days, while brain cells typically last an entire lifetime This stuff is pretty cool, and kind of related to to the anti cancer properties of weed. They're recently discovered that THC makes your cells die and recycle themselves faster, with shorter cell life, the chances of a cell developing a cancerous mutation are lowered. On another note, you are not a single entity, in fact most of the cells in your body aren't even human cells

    • @kurtcobain6886
      @kurtcobain6886 10 років тому +2

      Wilbur Jenkins Oh cells recycle about every 8-10 years depending on your size its really quite amazing this is why I love science

  • @scarves4evanoregano
    @scarves4evanoregano 10 років тому

    this made me emotional... NOTCOOLBRO! xD

  • @chrisirwin34
    @chrisirwin34 8 років тому +1

    I can't like this more than one time! NO!!!!

  • @DerangedOctopus
    @DerangedOctopus 8 років тому

    What is the song that begins at 0:34???

    • @skunkbear
      @skunkbear  8 років тому +2

      That's The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas

    • @DerangedOctopus
      @DerangedOctopus 8 років тому

      Thanks a lot!!!

  • @Zappyguy111
    @Zappyguy111 10 років тому

    I had aptasia once, and injected them with vinegar....

  • @bjnslc
    @bjnslc 10 років тому

    How many cells do you need to replace before you consider yourself a different person? askanaturalist.com/do-we-replace-our-cells-every-7-or-10-years/

  • @avalasialove
    @avalasialove 10 років тому

    ?

  • @ewmcd
    @ewmcd 10 років тому +3

    and might I add.... HAIL HYDRA!!!

  • @user-bo1bp1jz5i
    @user-bo1bp1jz5i 3 роки тому

    How did i get here

  • @KanyeTroll
    @KanyeTroll 8 років тому

    does it have a brain? or at least a nervous system?

    • @GandalfTheTsaagan
      @GandalfTheTsaagan 7 років тому +1

      Apparently it's a web of nerves arround the body:
      www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia1.britannica.com%2Feb-media%2F35%2F73335-004-2425FA69.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fscience%2Fnervous-system%2Fimages-videos&docid=rDkP2CXLKxKsOM&tbnid=43Rz9z14K96HJM%3A&vet=1&w=358&h=260&bih=638&biw=1366&ved=0ahUKEwiAt_figdTQAhUmJMAKHQo5CLkQMwg-KBcwFw&iact=mrc&uact=8

  • @Talltrees84
    @Talltrees84 10 років тому

    Send in Nick Fury and the Avengers. Then watch them die. Lol.
    Good vid.

  • @tenletters5889
    @tenletters5889 4 роки тому

    2:10 so you're saying the key to living long lives is to gradually raise the age of consent

  • @FrolkaScience
    @FrolkaScience 7 років тому

    gretings from Russia

  • @shiro4370
    @shiro4370 4 роки тому

    *HAIL HYDRA*

  • @seandmello3793
    @seandmello3793 8 років тому +54

    Really liked the narrators way talking makes me want to hear him more

    • @TimSheehan
      @TimSheehan 8 років тому +4

      He (Robert Krulwich) is a regular host on NPR's RadioLab series, their podcasts are much like audio-only versions of this video so I'd highly recommend checking them out www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/

    • @MelaneyBAnatomy
      @MelaneyBAnatomy 7 років тому +2

      Radiolab is an amazing podcast, science made into relevant, engaging narratives!

    • @rashminthaker3197
      @rashminthaker3197 2 роки тому

      @@TimSheehan .

  • @Regnberg
    @Regnberg 9 років тому

    Hail Hydra!

  • @iamfuturetrunks
    @iamfuturetrunks 9 років тому +27

    Hmm what iv gotten from this is... if I don't have kids ill never die. :D
    Sounds good! lol

    • @egg-bert1735
      @egg-bert1735 6 років тому +6

      gg

    • @piotrkowalski3869
      @piotrkowalski3869 4 роки тому

      What the narrator said was that after having offspring living being dies faster. It means with no offspring you will live longer nad will have noone to pass your illogical theories onto.

  • @user-xk2st7fd1f
    @user-xk2st7fd1f 8 років тому +15

    1: this video was cute, relaxing and informative 2: marvel's hydra is scary so every time you said hydra I pictured Steve Rogers cutting the plants a million times over

  • @Andrea-xs4ny
    @Andrea-xs4ny 3 роки тому +5

    There's a jellyfish that has been dubbed the only immortal creature (it can revert from sexually mature to sexually immature at any time, effectively resetting the clock each time, and it can do this forever and a day). Check out the Turritopsis dohrnii, aka the "Immortal Jellyfish" (more here: www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/the-immortal-jellyfish). I guess we've got another contender with the hydra.

  • @davidjames666
    @davidjames666 8 років тому +3

    Can i eat hydra?

  • @mianruwu3280
    @mianruwu3280 9 років тому +2

    so if we eat it, if they still alive in our bodies?...

  • @-_o_o_-
    @-_o_o_- 10 років тому +3

    What about mutations?

  • @shoyuramenoff
    @shoyuramenoff 8 років тому +2

    Hail Hydra! Anybody.....?

  • @Marleigh24
    @Marleigh24 4 роки тому +1

    k its been 5 yrs how r they now?

  • @Koppelya
    @Koppelya 7 років тому +1

    excelente, gracias por hacer estos vídeos!!

  • @birdies417
    @birdies417 8 років тому +1

    Is the link between reproduction and life expectancy also observed within a species or only between species?

  • @Aerba54
    @Aerba54 9 років тому +1

    I wonder if there are ways to integrate these immortal's cells with dead cells in humans.

  • @ИльяМаковоз-ж8л
    @ИльяМаковоз-ж8л 7 років тому +1

    vox recommended you. u r really interesting and fascinating
    thx

  • @darthvader6533
    @darthvader6533 6 років тому

    "Hmmm, what an interesting creature, what should I do with them?
    Oh I dont know...
    *HOW BOUT CUT EM IN HALF!*

  • @reneebaran616
    @reneebaran616 6 років тому

    What is the animal that lives the longest (or forever)🙂🤩🤪🐻🦄please like I’m going to guess it is from the sea maybe a jellyfish yeah I think they might live forever

  • @MSPula
    @MSPula 6 років тому

    Cut off one head...two more shall take its place... *HAIL HYDRA*

  • @ericafleming5197
    @ericafleming5197 7 років тому

    Don't all animals do this in some way? They difference is that the stem cells that produce new cells become less efficient and die off, while in a hydra the stem cells don't age?

  • @harsharya545
    @harsharya545 2 роки тому

    But I have heard every cell in human body also replaces itself every 7 year. (Source Vsauce)

  • @andrevu3996
    @andrevu3996 10 років тому

    One question.. Is this the same guy from the podcast freakanomics

  • @crazyburkey3677
    @crazyburkey3677 Рік тому

    Would we increase our lifespan if we'd start ingesting hydras,

  • @cworks1245
    @cworks1245 10 років тому

    What would happen if u dipped the in acid

  • @JacksonHollo
    @JacksonHollo 5 років тому

    Wow... this is a good video

  • @r3n736
    @r3n736 4 роки тому

    he was curious so he cut it in half,
    wonder what he would do to people he was curious about...

  • @4tumuch135
    @4tumuch135 10 років тому

    Maybe we can make regenarative medicin out of these things

  • @makaronishenouda6413
    @makaronishenouda6413 10 місяців тому

    seems the channel wasn't immortal

  • @lordbaba9649
    @lordbaba9649 10 років тому

    Im getting educated like a mothafucka

  • @duolingo6702
    @duolingo6702 6 років тому

    Why does everything else get to die but not the hydra?!?

  • @kwarrior2895
    @kwarrior2895 10 років тому

    Wow just found this accidently.This is amazing!

  • @kitteav
    @kitteav 8 років тому +1

    If the cells are recycled ever 20 days, ish, can we really call it the same animal after 20 days? if 0 part of the original animal is there, is it still the same animal?

    • @skunkbear
      @skunkbear  8 років тому +6

      You're in good company asking that question, because Plato, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke had a similar one (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus). Taking this further - YOUR cells are mostly recycled over time (even your neuronal connections are constantly reshaped ua-cam.com/video/Nwfg157hejM/v-deo.html) ... do you remain the same person? I think some would argue that because today's hydra is genetically identical to the hydra from 4 or 8 years ago (barring an occasional mutation) it IS the same.

    • @KineticPassion
      @KineticPassion 7 років тому

      calling it a different animal would also make it fit the curve. babies in 2 days, death in 20.

  • @bellacutie25
    @bellacutie25 10 років тому

    They are their own babies...

  • @ellifedash663
    @ellifedash663 6 років тому

    Where do I get a hydra?

  • @ItsRiskyyTTV
    @ItsRiskyyTTV 10 років тому

    Call it piccolo lol

  • @shadowdance4666
    @shadowdance4666 10 років тому

    Immortality ?

  • @Zincink
    @Zincink 10 років тому

    I enjoyed this - thanks :)

  • @MrShinta786
    @MrShinta786 2 роки тому

    we want more

  • @chiqui1006
    @chiqui1006 6 років тому

    Hail Hydra!

  • @Kaioshin9000
    @Kaioshin9000 4 роки тому

    Hail hydra

  • @reddsophia8100
    @reddsophia8100 8 років тому

    RADIOLAB!! Can we just get Robert Krowlich and Morgan Freeman to narrate everything please?

  • @ktktktktktktkt
    @ktktktktktktkt 5 років тому

    Hail Hydra

  • @helema23
    @helema23 10 років тому

    look up the squishy bear they can survive drought and extreme freezing along with several other things. they are tiny little animals with a simple cell structure bu tthey can survive conditions that would kill us.

  • @sanicthehedgehog1260
    @sanicthehedgehog1260 10 років тому

    I wonder why they're like this, it reminds me of the jellyfish. It's sad we're very underdeveloped in comparison or very flawed in design.

  • @radhamadhabpathi512
    @radhamadhabpathi512 6 років тому

    It would be great if you can post the link of the published paper in the description.

  • @reginafelli9146
    @reginafelli9146 10 років тому

    Iioooo
    besteira

  • @eurenton99
    @eurenton99 10 років тому +1

    But how many times can it's own DNA be split in half before there are problems?

    • @joshuarosen6242
      @joshuarosen6242 10 років тому +3

      I think you need to read up on cell divison. DNA isn't "split in half" during cell division, it is copied. It is not the case that, when a cell splits, each new cell gets half the DNA.
      The copying of DNA does inevitably result in errors and mutations on occasions but that's how we arrived on the scene. Such mutations wouldn't necessarily cause a problem and may even lead to increased fitness.

    • @IIGrayfoxII
      @IIGrayfoxII 10 років тому +1

      Joshua Rosen
      These errors have ways of correcting themselves in animals.
      A terminate command is sent to the cell with bad DNA and it should die, but if it doesn't get terminated cancer happens

    • @joshuarosen6242
      @joshuarosen6242 10 років тому +2

      IIGrayfoxII
      That is indeed true. Although errors occur, it is far from a bad thing. It it weren't for such mutations, we'd all still be bacteria or worse.

    • @rpm2004
      @rpm2004 10 років тому

      IIGrayfoxII
      He was referring (I think) to mutations in the games (sperm and egg cells) that cause random mutations between generations that may help or hinder the individuals' survival, which in turn acts upon the evolution of said species.

  • @generaltso656
    @generaltso656 8 років тому

    Why could human just evole from them?

  • @jameslee1145
    @jameslee1145 10 років тому

    Hey, I'm from Long Island too!

  • @xboxonegaming3602
    @xboxonegaming3602 10 років тому

    Now if only humans could do this

    • @Fahrenheit4051
      @Fahrenheit4051 10 років тому

      Some people think we might within this century. I'm a bit skeptical, but I definitely thing we should strive for it. The critics would say that it would offset the birth-death balance, but researchers are developing methods of long-term, reversible birth control that could help maintain this balance.

  • @azitadgreat7412
    @azitadgreat7412 6 років тому

    Hydras is just a Myth...

    • @azitadgreat7412
      @azitadgreat7412 6 років тому

      It FREAKIN Exist ?! Thanks for the info...

  • @currysues
    @currysues 10 років тому

    So, if hydra never die, and hydra also reproduce, why aren't we up to our eyeballs in hydra?

    • @skunkbear
      @skunkbear  10 років тому +8

      scurry_away Hydra can die if they are eaten, or if they starve, or if they are taken out of water -- the idea is they won't die of old age.

    • @blackdraco28
      @blackdraco28 10 років тому +6

      it's elf immortality old man time can't touch them a sword can

    • @Elluem
      @Elluem 10 років тому +2

      blackdraco28
      I love how you call it "elf immortality" brilliant.

  • @The900428
    @The900428 10 років тому

    isn't that a plant?

    • @skunkbear
      @skunkbear  10 років тому +8

      It looks a bit like a plant, but it's actually an animal! It's motile, it kills prey with poisonous tentacles and it ingests them, and of course it has animal cells.

    • @OlleLindestad
      @OlleLindestad 10 років тому

      It belongs to the animal group known as cnidarians - same as corals, anemones and jellyfish.

  • @rulofmg
    @rulofmg 9 років тому +2

    but can it melt steel beams?

  • @Huntress_Hannah
    @Huntress_Hannah 4 роки тому

    Can you imagine you’re in the middle of making love and he goes “WAIT!......gotta make sure my babies are ok first”

  • @Iohannes_the_Orthodox
    @Iohannes_the_Orthodox 5 років тому

    The man who wouldn't die :- Rasputin