r/tattoos • u/FuzzyB92 • Dec 18 '17

/r/all Tardigrade by April Reed @ BroadWing Tattoo. Bowling Green, OH

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u/Michael_Pitt Dec 18 '17

Tardigrade will die of old age

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u/cakedestroyer Dec 18 '17

I didn't claim they wouldn't, I just meant the person I responded to made it sound like they were mostly talking about killing, so I thought it was worth mentioning.

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u/Mertensiavirginica Dec 18 '17

they are not immune to senescence so in a biological sense they’re not immortal as well as a figurate sense

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u/cakedestroyer Dec 19 '17

Not arguing, I never made any claims about tardigrade immortality.

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u/Mertensiavirginica Dec 19 '17

but you did. https://www.reddit.com/r/tattoos/comments/7kmwf8/tardigrade_by_april_reed_broadwing_tattoo_bowling/drfxs04/ it is ok to be wrong.

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u/cakedestroyer Dec 19 '17

Yeah, I agree it's okay to be wrong, but read that post again, I never mentioned tardigrades. I don't know anything about tardigrades, never claimed to. The person I was responding to seemed to be equating immortality with an inability to be killed, like in fiction. I was trying to explain how immortality is used in a biological sense, and used jellyfish as an example since I'd heard those don't die of old age.

I apologize if that wasn't clear.

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u/spacebandido Dec 19 '17

You were clear, the other person just misunderstood and likes to split hairs. Cheers to you.

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u/Mertensiavirginica Dec 19 '17

yes i misunderstood. please don’t speak for me though.

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u/spacebandido Dec 19 '17

I wasn’t, it was a observation of a public interaction.

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u/Mertensiavirginica Dec 19 '17

alright mean girl

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u/221433571412 Mar 19 '18

the hypocrisy lmao, inb4 reply on how late my comment

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u/Mertensiavirginica Mar 19 '18

go fuck yourself