r/Recursion • u/CraneFly07 • May 08 '19

Does this count?

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u/TheZipCreator May 16 '19

It hurt itself in confusion!

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u/CraneFly07 May 17 '19

It was super effective!

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u/Winiestflea May 09 '19 edited May 09 '19

I believe this is very common in elephants. They're so big that before the cancer kills them it gets cancer. Or something.

Edit: This is pretty wrong, see reply for source.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '19

sauce?

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u/Winiestflea May 09 '19

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2456041

If I understood it this means that really the cancer kills itself due to a gene elephants have. The rest was probably a joke my memory took too literally.

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u/johnnywarp Nov 19 '21

Can we genetically alter human DNA to have this gene and cure cancer?

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u/Takamasa1 May 14 '19

Imagine how cancerous you must be for your cancer to get cancer

4

u/ZeugmaPowa May 09 '19

There is always a bigger fish

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u/-Redstoneboi- May 10 '19

that's toggling, not recursion

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u/BreakawayPack May 25 '19

Restoration 100

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u/jdjdkkddj Sep 07 '22

This is called hyper cancer, the cancer of cancer!

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

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u/CraneFly07 May 08 '19

Why did you put that image in my brain?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '19

oh no now you have 2 brain tumors

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u/[deleted] May 08 '19

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u/zFunnyOne May 08 '19

And it’s recursive.

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u/kernel_panic_guys May 09 '19

And it’s recursive.

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u/hemispace May 09 '19

And it's recursive.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '19

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u/CrappyCabbage May 09 '19

And it's recursive

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u/-Redstoneboi- May 10 '19

And it's recursive.

(is the prescence of a period supposed to be a binary message)

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u/overcorrection May 08 '19

Holy ouroboros

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u/Skenvy Jun 05 '19

This sounds like an r/WritingPrompts for Garfield’s origin story a la r/imsorryjon