Glowing green monkey's.......

[OUTSIDER]

Just watched the news and there was an article about how US scientist's have produced the first GM (geneticaly modified) Monkey. They've used the DNA of a Jelliefish and inserted it into the monkey's DNA, the DNA code's for luminescence so there's a remote chance of the monkey glowing green at some time in the future.

I hope I'm not the only person to find this more than a little scary and fucked up.

 

[lilfrk]

Yes that's fucked up. Why would you want to do a thing like that? What warped mind came up with the idea to mix those two?

 

[R Nitelight]

I think it's a wonderful idea. Now you can find them in the dark.

What I'd like to see them do next is produce a jellyfish that can climb trees.

 

[lilfrk]

LOL... you would.

 

[OUTSIDER]

Ok what two animal's would you like to see spliced and why..?

 

[Cheyenne]

Ok what two animal's would you like to see spliced and why..?

Oh, God. I can hear it now. Someone is going to say a male German shepard with a horse! I can see it coming now...

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[OUTSIDER]

lol,something that big you'd have to be fucking blind not to see it comeing.

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

They actually did this same thing with mice a couple of years ago and it was truly a bizarre thing to see. I haven't seen pictures of the monkey yet, but from what I've read, thus far it looks normal to the naked eye, although its figernails and hair supposedly glow a faint green under ultraviolet light. However, two of its siblings which were stillborn apparently were visibly different without the UV light.

The point of the experiment was publicity. The researchers could have altered any gene in the monkey's genome, but a glowing green monkey with a jellyfish gene gets a lot more play on the news and internet bulletin boards than one with a genetically engineered version of glunoryl transferase or some other invisible enzyme.

The medical potential for transfer of genes from one species to another is potentially tremendous. If they can transfer jellyfish genes to a monkey, they can also transfer human genes responsible for various diseases, allowing them to test new drugs with much greater confidence that the test results will be similar in humans.

What's strange to think about is the potential for the transfer of DNA in the opposite direction: animal-to-human. It's too late for me, since this technique requires the addition of foreign DNA to a fertilized egg, but I know what animal gene any future son of mine is getting:

Barnacle.

Why you ask?

Largest genitalia relative to body size in the animal kingdom.

[Edited by Oliver Clozoff on 01-11-2001 at 04:44 PM]

 

[OUTSIDER]

Look out here comes the science bit, sorry Oliver just pulling your leg.

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[OUTSIDER]

I don't know about barnacle's but as a kid I went on a field trip to a livestock market and they had shire horse's there and one had it's penis out and that was the biggest fucking thing I've ever seen and maybe you'd like to consider that instead.

 

[Madame Pandora]

Rather than start a new thread

The glowing monkey I think is wrong. Not because it's against nature but because I don't think ANY monkey should have to be kept up nights with a glowing green ass. And...what if he BLINKS? How much hell would that be?

Still...monkies don't bother me. Where's that link about the idiots trying to CLONE CHRIST? THAT is scarry. Can you IMAGINE? All they have to do is PRETEND they've done this and you've got the potential for a cult that will make Wako look like NOTHING.

I think having the technology is good, as often one scientic step leads to somewhere else entirely and there is nothing wrong about discovering new things, but it bothers me that humanity doesn't seem to have the evolved maturity to temper our technology.

And...just in CASE the theory of reincarnation is true...it's bad fucking karma.

Where is that clone link?

MP