Sure it can. If you can believe one thing you can believe another, too. Just because they cannot understand it does not mean they cannot become old and weak. The also come in different strengths and Paarthurnax was an easy kill.

No, no they can't. Dragons are immortal. This means that they don't grow old and their power doesn't diminish with time.

Yes, I happen to have killed quite a few of them. And no, I do not believe in this nonsense of immortal being the same as not being able to age. If it can be killed then it can age, too. Age is not more than a slow killer.

Prove, in the lore, that a Dragon has grown old and died without being killed by someone.

Why? You started the argument so you prove to me that lore is not just utter nonsense.

Immortal

1. not subject to death or decay; having perpetual life
2. having everlasting fame; remembered throughout time
3. everlasting; perpetual; constant
4. of or relating to immortal beings or concepts
5. Biology Capable of indefinite growth or division. Used of cells in culture.

We're dealing with #5 here- age occurs because cells stop growing and dividing. A dragon's cells do not.

If you're going to toss what the lore says out, then you have no business arguing if Dragons in the Elder Scrolls series can age or not.

Then we're just going to have to disagree.

You and me. We're arguing this point, and unless one of us is willing to back down on the stance of existing lore, we're not going to come to any kind of agreement.

6. It does not exist.

Allright. Since you're tossing out the lore debate and want to focus on unchangable real life, lemmie pull something out. Remember when you said


Well, it does exist. Here's two links for you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurkat

Know what these are? ...

Dragons are immortal because they are creations of the God of Time, thus aren't affected by the laws of time. Or at least not in the same way.

You can call them whatever you want, but they are subject to decay as everything in this universe. Live to the end of time and then you can pull this out as an argument. Until then is immortality nonsense.

Btw, that is a [censored] stupid example. To call a cancer cell immortal ... They kill their host! How is this immortal?

First- to the latter. You've jsut proved that a Cancer cell is a seperate enetity by calling the person a "host." If the "host" was not a host, the cancer cells would simply be part of the body. Furthermore, the HeLa and the Jurkat cells now exist OUTSIDE of a host. They form an organisim all of their own; because of this, they are biologically immortal, so the proof still stands.

...how did this become a topic about cancer...?

Because of nerdy loreheads believing in the concept of immortality. They are going to hate me just like they hate the guy who told them Santa is not real.

umm... ITS A GAME! therfore if they want to intoroduce immortality, THEY CAN!


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No. These cells cannot survive outside a host. They need to be kept alive and thus are not immortal. They are only called immortal.

Because of their adaptation to growth in tissue culture plates, HeLa cells are sometimes difficult to control. They have proven to be a persistent laboratory "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weed" that contaminates other cell cultures in the same laboratory, interfering with biological research and forcing researchers to declare many results invalid. The degree of HeLa cell contamination among other cell types is unknown because few researchers test the identity or purity of already-established cell lines. It has been demonstrated that a substantial fraction of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro cell lines — estimates range from 10% to 20% — are contaminated with HeLa cells. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Gartler in 1967 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Nelson-Rees in 1975 were the first to publish on the contamination of various cell lines by HeLa.^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#cite_note-11}
Science writer Michael Gold wrote about the HeLa cell contamination problem in his book A Conspiracy of Cells. He describes Nelson-Rees's identification of this pervasive worldwide problem — affecting even the laboratories of the best physicians, scientists, and researchers, including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk — and many, possibly career-ending, efforts to address it. According to Gold, the HeLa contamination problem almost led to a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War incident: The USSR and the USA had begun to cooperate in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_cancer launched by President http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon only to find that the exchanged cells were contaminated by HeLa. Gold contends that the HeLa problem was amplified by emotions, egos, and a reluctance to admit mistakes. Nelson-Rees explains:[indent]
It's all human - an unwillingness to throw away hours and hours of what was thought to be good research...worries about jeopardizing another grant that's being applied for, the hurrying to come out with a paper first. And it isn't limited to biology and cancer research. Scientists in many endeavors all make mistakes, and they all have the same problems.^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#cite_note-12}[/indent]
Rather than focus on how to resolve the problem of HeLa cell contamination, many scientists and science writers continue to document this problem as simply a contamination issue — caused not by human error or shortcomings but by the hardiness, proliferating, or overpowering nature of HeLa.^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#cite_note-13http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#cite_note-Pascal-14[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify]} Recent data suggest that cross-contaminations are still a major ongoing problem with modern cell cultures.^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#cite_note-pmid20143388-2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#cite_note-Nardone-15}

Dragons are immortal because they are creations of the God of Time, thus aren't affected by the laws of time. Or at least not in the same way.