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Finding Every Species

Posted by michael on Sunday January 12, 2003 @05:14PM from the top-of-the-food-chain dept.

Microsofts slave writes "A hugely ambitious project to find and name every species on Earth within the next 25 years has been launched by scientists. The internet and the development of DNA sequencing technology make the goal achievable, they say."

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Re:Good freakin' luck by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-12 18:05 · Score: -1, Troll

I think we'd have better luck finding life on Mars.

You'd have better luck finding a life on Mars than finding a negro that isn't on welfare or addicted to crack.
Plagarism by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-12 18:33 · Score: -1, Troll

This story was blatantly copied word for word from an earlier article on CNN. I'm not sure if the editors have a standard for this sort of thing but if the story is not removed you will be hearing from our legal department.
Re:Good freakin' luck by Negatyfus · 2003-01-12 20:59 · Score: 0, Troll

Didn't they tell you evolution is just a really cool theory? Why do people (non-scientists) assume evolution is The Real Thing?