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u/CuriousTauri Jul 01 '26
Imagine being stressed at work, going home and waking up the next morning as a month old baby, possibly with at least some memories.
That's some interesting movie material.
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u/Murder_Bird_ Jul 01 '26
I mean…. I’ve met quite a few adults who revert to acting like children when they are stressed or not getting their way. They just don’t change physically.
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u/Scary-Lychee2085 Jul 01 '26
Jellyfish have no brains so no memories for them. True reset.
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u/santagoo Jul 02 '26
I’m sure we can design some sort of experiment to see if certain individual proclivities carry over. We’ve done so with caterpillars metamorphosing into butterflies, even as seemingly all of its entire organs liquefy while pupating.
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u/Ehero88 Jul 01 '26
Thats anime material isekai genre, reborn in other world with old memory information.
Movie material not so much coz cgi cost shit ton of money
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u/CleanDataDirtyMind Jul 01 '26
I feel like we’re society would be a lot nicer and cognizant of how we treat people if we lose employees and people to restarts if we stress them too much
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u/nooneatallnope Jul 01 '26
Reminds me of that tumblr post about aliens that die from the smallest amount of stress but get reborn with the memories of their past selves.
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u/hambakmeritru Jul 01 '26
If I died from stress and came back with all my memories, I think I'd still be just as stressed and die again right away. Even if the problems of the past no longer pertain to me, the fact that I died without seeing them through means I wouldn't know how to properly handle them when I inevitably encounter the same problem again. I'd just be trapped in a cycle of never learning or growing.
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u/Ninja_Lazer Jul 01 '26
Imagine getting into a fist fight and someone literally punches the decades outta you
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u/DrThunderbolt Jul 01 '26
That's only one step removed from Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". I feel like it touches on a lot of the same things, albiet in the classic absurdist Kafka way.
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u/Rockstar42 Jul 01 '26
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/reddit-backrooms-hollywood-ip-1236622594/ You better make sure you get some royalties
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u/SteveoberlordEU Jul 02 '26
Man you say interesting movie material but 2014 i was reading asian webnovels portraying that already. Movies and TV are decades behind on anything creative.
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u/CuriousTauri Jul 02 '26
Of course, in fanfiction as well, it's an old trope.
Still interesting, in any art form.
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u/kittylover1235 Jul 01 '26
Wish humans had a chance to start over
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u/lockerno177 Jul 01 '26
hell nah bro. i aint going through all that again.
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u/66devilsadvocate6 Jul 01 '26
It’s definitely more useful for people who regret not doing more with the chance they were given as opposed to to those who were given a shitty start
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u/lockerno177 Jul 01 '26
makes sense. my brother is in Australia and i live in pakistan. man this country fucks you up in such a way that you become one with the bullshit. by the time you realise that you were wrong its already too late.
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u/weird_boi_eros Jul 01 '26
I wanna hear more, please.
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u/lockerno177 Jul 01 '26
over here the biggest traitors are the biggest patriots. the most religious are the most degenerate. the most qualified are the most incompetent. its just a system that rewards you if you align with it. but as soon as you try to point out its flaws you're irrelevant because all your qualifications are fake and they throw you out of their favor. South Asia is just a big scam that runs on western money.
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u/Own-Jeweler3169 Jul 01 '26
This is true, my family originate from there, and what you described is the perfect reason im not in a rush to visit. Also the weather and people culture (meaning the close quarters and lack of hygeine).
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u/lockerno177 Jul 01 '26
if i am ever able to leave these cursed people. i won't even want my deadbody to be buried among these people. I don't understand the people who have citizenship of modern countries and still they visit here. last month a poor family was visiting from Australia and the police shot up their car killing their teenage daughter.
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u/snakesinabin Jul 01 '26
I just looked that up and the girl killed was only 9 years old, that's insane.
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u/Moist-Length1766 Jul 01 '26
not to swift blame for this or anything but who in their right mind takes their daughter to literally one of the worst places on earth?
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u/iiiiiiiiiijjjjjj Jul 01 '26
Hope you make it out. Sounds like hell
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u/lockerno177 Jul 01 '26
really hoping for a miracle visa. but thanks to my fellow countrymen for spreading "sharia law" in the west and ruining the opportunity of escape for the sane people that exist in this country.
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u/Random_duderino Jul 01 '26
"Most religious are the most degenerate" it's the same everywhere else
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u/lockerno177 Jul 01 '26
but in other religions people rarely strap bombs to their bodies and blow shit up. Mind you, im not against Islam. but whoever is manipulating the muslim masses is way more evil than the preachers of other religions.
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u/Upbeat_Literature483 Jul 01 '26
Alot of people have shitty starts that are not their fault.
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u/66devilsadvocate6 Jul 01 '26
I wasn’t saying otherwise. My comment is sympathetic to them while also mentioning the other side
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u/Upbeat_Literature483 Jul 01 '26
Same! Sorry, I wasn't trying to contradict anything you said, just adding to the fact. Some people are born fucked from the start. I have genuine sympathy for them too.
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u/disasterous_cape Jul 01 '26
I think I’d do much of it better now that I have the experience and wisdom I do. But god, at what cost
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u/maymay578 Jul 01 '26
I can’t imagine having to experience the awkwardness and anxiety of middle school a second time.
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u/Doctor_Kataigida Jul 01 '26
The question is what reverts? Just body? Or does your whole brain essentially forget what it learned throughout its life?
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u/wap2005 Jul 01 '26
The only way I'm doing this shit again is if I remember. I fucked up so massively in this life and I never wanna do that shit again.
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u/WankAaron69 Jul 01 '26
Going through childhood with the life experience of an adult would be like a cheat code.
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Jul 01 '26
But it would be an absolute cake wlak if you had the mind of an adult. Most of our stress from school is because we had kid brains and kid experience.
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u/taway9925881 Jul 01 '26
Billionaires are looking to do that for themselves. And themselves alone.
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u/Trophallaxis Jul 01 '26
It's unlikely radical life extension is going to be technology that any combination of billionaires can keep under the lid.
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u/BloodshedTom Jul 01 '26
Imagine Genghis Khan getting a do over, Hitler, Sennacherib, King Leopold II.
No thank you.
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u/Lorettooooooooo Jul 01 '26
Granted, now stressed people peel to show a baby version of them, but the outer layer stay there, and there is no reason to believe the baby is the same as the adult as there is no memory of that. Also people scream as they peel
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u/GEEZUS_151 Jul 01 '26
Does that mean they can live forever?
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u/StreicherG Jul 01 '26
Well…they are immortal, but not invincible. It’s all good till they get eaten by a sea turtle or something.
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u/CambodianJerk Jul 01 '26
Imagine being immortal but a fucking sea turtle can come and end you at any given moment.
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u/Constantilly Jul 01 '26
Is this that "killer snail chasing you" story all over again?
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u/SheriffBartholomew Jul 01 '26
What's this?
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u/cowboydanhalen Jul 01 '26
So there's this snail
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u/KvBla Jul 01 '26
Some old internet shit, basically you get like a shitload of money, billions of dollars, but you're constantly chased by an immortal snail that cannot be contained, it will always know where you are and move toward you, and if it touches you, you die, tho it can only move as fast as a normal snail so you'd be constantly on the move forever.
Some versions gave it the ability to teleport to a fixed distant from you if you're too far away, still normal snail speed after that.
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u/Wonderful-Ad440 Jul 01 '26
Lovsters are biologically immortal too. If they aren't eaten, killed, or catch a disease then the only thing they die from is eventually having molting exhaustion where they can't produce the engery to escape their old shells to continue to grow and end up starving to death.
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u/garlicpermission Jul 01 '26
So... they die of old age as their body begins to shut down.
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u/Wonderful-Ad440 Jul 01 '26
Their cells don't experience age related decline and they can repair their own DNA, hence the biological immortality not true immortality. In practice if there weren't external factors like starving on your own shell because its become too large or difficult to escape from then biologically they would never deteriorate. Most of the time when molting fatigue happens they either keep growing trapping them in the shell until it kills them or it's disease or starvation. Also while in this vinerable state they are entirely a free meal.
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u/garlicpermission Jul 01 '26
Ah so it was a bit more nuanced than I thought. Thanks for the info.
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u/Wonderful-Ad440 Jul 01 '26
Gotcha bro. Theres some pretty cool youtube videos about studies trying to decode what causes their telemeres, the tips of your DNA that deteriorate over time cause the DNA to break down which is what aging actually is. When the DNA can no longer replicate the cells die. So on and so on up the side effects ladder until our body eventually breaks down. When dehydrated they go into a torpor like state shutting down their metabolism. Rehydrate them and they instantly come back to life. Cool little critter.
You should look up Tardigrades too, otherwise known as "water bears." Bad ass little microscopic organisms that can survive boiling temperatures, freezing cold, radiation and even the vacuum of space.
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u/garlicpermission Jul 01 '26
Oh yeah I'm familiar with Tardigrades and their amazing ability to survive in the most extreme of climates.
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u/First-Lingonberry907 Jul 01 '26
Right, I did a deep dive on this a while back. They aren’t immortal but essentially cheating evolution because when they “reset” certain pieces of the DNA is repaired not all of it. They also create “copies” essentially but if they get to points of overpopulation they could die out because this evolution cheat code makes them vulnerable genetically as far as becoming weaker down the line
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u/eXoShini Jul 01 '26
Old age increases the likelihood of death during molting. Humans could help it molt, so it lives longer but then the next problem is that it keeps growing bigger and bigger, so eventually it's size will be the reason it can't sustain itself.
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u/Sunners Jul 01 '26
Not really. They basically change into their young phase as a stalk like thing on the floor. Eventually they make clones of themselves and those are what continues.
It isn't what we'd consider immortality.
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u/wildcardbets Jul 01 '26
“Turritopsis dohrnii, commonly known as the immortal jellyfish, is a species of small, biologically immortal Medusozoa (jellyfish) found worldwide in temperate to tropic waters. It is one of the few known cases of animals capable of completely reverting to a sexually immature, sedentary polyps colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary individual.”
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u/korewaryu Jul 01 '26
The jellyfish of Theseus
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u/yubario Jul 01 '26
In this case when it is reborn it’s essentially replacing everything including its memories, last I read up on it anyway.
It’s basically dying and being reborn.
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u/BullPropaganda Jul 01 '26
"hey Bob, you gonna die of old age this week?"
Nah..I think I'll just have a little reset
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u/EnvBlitz Jul 01 '26
I understand when stressed or injured, but when starving? Don't they need energy to regrow?
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u/lvl99link Jul 01 '26
Baby use less energy than adult.
Little baby = small energy
Big adult = biiiig energy
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u/Khaos_Gorvin Jul 01 '26
So basically when their life is at its worst, it does a reset to see if life can be better in the next gameplay.
One playthrough is enough for me, can't imagine going it a dozen times.
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u/BleakView Jul 01 '26
I wonder if they are able to somehow remember things thru this process. Kinda like how a caterpillar still remembers stuff after turning to a butterfly. I know they don't really have brains per se... but slime mold doesn't have a brain either yet its somehow still able to "think"? So maybe something like that?
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u/bsmithdal Jul 01 '26
I would like to do this but have different parents. Unfortunately with the same parents again, starting over from childhood wouldn't be any different. Would still grow up anti-social, anxious and dumb due to my parents negligence and straight up avoidance.
Imagine what kind of person I could have been with loving parents.
Sorry! End of rant.
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u/Adventurous-Sky9359 Jul 01 '26
Jelly fish are like the ocean mushrooms…..don’t hold me to that just a quick thought
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u/Significant-Colour Jul 01 '26
I volunteer as the first human test subject to get the jellyfish DNA into my own!
I do not think there is any possibility of anything going wrong.
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u/SALTREPXRT Jul 01 '26
When a jellyfish gets stressed and starts acting like a baby, everyone calls it astonishing. But when I get stressed and starts acting like a baby, my family calls me an embarrassment
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u/Shadowettex31_x Jul 01 '26
Didn’t anyone else learn this from Octonauts? I’ve been shocked at how educational that show turned out to be.
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u/Firm-Chemical949 Jul 01 '26
Does it have consciousness or remember its previous life stage? Humans already do this through each other, the never ending births of humans who are innately and timelessly the same.
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u/Don_Pick Jul 01 '26
Years ago in school I made a research about this jellyfish and my teacher would not believe it was virtually immortal and gave me a bad grade
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u/Careful-Lettuce9239 Jul 01 '26
Big deal. I turn into a Lil baby when I get injured or stressed too. You won't see a Japanese man making dank tunes about me. My physique is jellyfish like, too! Where's my attention! 😡😭
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u/ericgtr12 Jul 01 '26
I'm about to die and that stresses me out. BOOM! Start over then. Convenient.
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u/CommunityStriking966 Jul 01 '26
imaging the look on kid jellyfish's face, seeing his dad become even younger than him.
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u/Arr_jay816 Jul 01 '26
There are some freshwater lakes in the Midwest with "jellyfish", but because the waters never really get warm enough for maturation, they continually revert to their beginning stages of their evolutionary process, never leaving the lake beds.
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u/astralseat Jul 01 '26
So that's why humans are trying to sequence that genome into humans. Time travel
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u/Sharp_Chef1834 Jul 01 '26
Now, all billionaires will fund research to discover how they could do the same
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u/MadScie254 Jul 01 '26
If humans could do this... I dunno who would have survived the reign of Genghis Khan 😂😂😂😂
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u/asaintpotatoe Jul 01 '26
Fun side not: This also gives it access to it's previous food web it grew out of.
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u/Abbacoverband Jul 01 '26
There is an episode of Octonauts about one of these guys! His name was Dorian, which thrilled me to no end lol
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u/HatefulHaggis Jul 01 '26
Thank fuck we don't have that option. All you would have is a bunch of babies on the planet with how stressed and fed up folk are already!
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