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)
let’s be honest, if we create an immortality serum and give it to a mouse, that mouse won’t be immortal, it’ll be dissected after a few years to check the insides.
immortal does not necessarily mean invulnerable
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
sure but a biologically immortal mouse being dead for an autopsy doesnt make it not immortal
you do not want absolute immorality. worse form of torture imaginable
there are certainly worse forms of torture imaginable
Doubt it, and if you have something to suggest it would be infinitely worse if you include absolute immortality.
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
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.
Some lab animals escape, notable ones are octopi. They are also known to kill their handler (abusive ones, anecdotally)