[NYFriend]

Good, I want one. Finally a pet I can keep and get attached to. Plus, it sounds like they make a tasty treat. Maybe I need two.

[PropheticZero]

Ping me when you can inject a cocktail of the relevant DNA carried by a retrovirus into a human and double his life expectancy. Oh...did I also mention I want a sure bet, none of this turning into a half man/half red sea urchin crap.

[Capt. Tom]

[PhilipFreneau]

Practically immortal? Is that the same as practically alive? Sea urchins are practically immobile, for certain.

[Slicksadick]

I always thought it looked (and tasted) like baby poop.

[Moosilauke]

Where's the obligatory picture of Helen Thomas?

[Itzlzha]

"Red Sea Urchin 'Almost Immortal'"

"However, the spherical echinoderms became valuable in the 1970s when the US sold them to Japan, where their sex organs were considered a delicacy. "

"Did someone say 'Uni'?!?!"

[adam_az]

The oldest Geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck) ever found was about 176 years old. The geoduck is a real funny looking critter - imagine a 3 pound clam with a giant phallic siphon tube that spends it's entire live buried under the sand. Good eating, too.

[BunnySlippers]

Immortal ... until it shows up as sushi.

[JohnnyZ]

The evidence suggests that a 100-year-old red sea urchin is just as apt to live another year, or reproduce, as a 10-year-old sea urchin.

Ooh, memoryless life expectancy. Like a light bulb, or a refrigerator. I like, I like!

[nickcarraway]

ping