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Genetically Engineered Pets Hit the Market
psoriac writes "According to this article the Taiwanese Taikong Corporation is starting to sell "Night Pearls" - zebrafish that glow in different red and green patterns thanks to genes from jellyfish and marine coral. US sales are expected to follow."
...the world will know the glory of the five assed monkey." -Mephisto
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-Xenocrates
Ever see the mouse with the human ear? I'd like to see a guinea pig with a human vagina. And no teeth.
But the prospect of GM pets has outraged pet dealers.
Sounds like a PR problem.
Maybe they should hire Robert Novak to help their image- he lots of fish experience!
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
The first person to patent a dog that refuses to pee in the house will be gangbusters.
They just appear to be glowing in red and green patterns, if you fucking hippies would get off of the psychedellics you'd realize that they're not glowing at all!
Oh, wait, that's Phish, my bad.
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
I didn't even know they'd made zebrafish yet, let alone coloured ones.
I, also a member of PETA, am wondering how these fish taste.
BTW, that's the "People for the Eating of Tasty Animals".
the scottish have been "injecting" sheep with their genetic material for ages, sadly to no avail. some day though, the noble scots will have their sheepwomen!!!!!!!!! =D
we had to shove christmas lights down their throats to make them glow.
Put them in clear glass balls and sell them as Christmas ornaments! They'll be all the rage.
My Ass hurts.
Can I get a frickin "laser" implanted in their heads?
-- Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.
Maybe this will prevent further Nemo incidents by making fish easier to find.
Karma: Excer..ex...excellahhh...realll good (mostly affected by drinking not done in moderation)
Does anyone have the source code for this so I can recompile the kernel of the zebra fish I bought the other day?
Playing God with Dog. Or was that the other way around...
I like lots of people. That doesn't mean I go carting them around the galaxy with me. --Dr. Who
I read somewhere about a french artist who worked with a bioengineering company to produce a rabbit that glowed green (using jellyfish genes as well). There was some sort of scandal about him not getting to take it home to film it interacting as a family pet which was what the whole project was about in the first place.
I'd like to see a pic of these fish though, or some video. I have no problem with a genetically modified pet. In the future, maybe we can have tigers that get no bigger than house cats, or something cool like that. Or photosynthetic pets that you don't have to feed! Just stick them outside for a few hours!
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
Give us another million years and we'll breed away the hair on the muff forever.
"Only in their dreams can men truly be free 'twas always thus, and always thus will be."
--Tom Schulman
Also, some bushes (and houseplants) that don't die when you pee on them would be nice. Thanks!
My Ass hurts.
Are you trying to say that the vast majority of the human race has the intellegence of the bugblatter beast because geeks can't get laid? ;)
It's called AstroTurf (TM).
$#!^ happens, but why does it always have to happen to me???
Nah, geeks get laid, it just takes them a while. The jocks get laid young, but they also die young in car accidents and gym showers. Yuck. We geeks invest in our brains, and kernel-hacking skills, then we get all the cute girls on the rebound. It's a strategy, like any other.
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1)Crossbread tomato with tobacco
2)Produce "tomacco"
3)...
4)Profit!
"Nutritious and delicious, tastes just like chicken!"
Hey, maybe now we can have a live action Charlie Tuna!
Comparing the taste of these fish to natural fish is like comparing apples and oranges. Oh, wait, now we can have both at the same time!
So what colour synthahol goes with synthetic fish?
Will you have to do a blush response test to find out if your fish is a replicant or not? Calling Chef Harrison Ford!
Maybe now they can genegineer some fish that, even when uncooked, taste like cooked fish. Sushi for the not-so-discriminating palate.
Crank your air conditioning way up high, hoping that it will pressurize your apartment?
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Then everyone will smell like wet dog ass.
Just use really thick pressurized plastic bags to bring them home from the pet store :) he he he
Easy! Just remove the skin.
"If you're thinking what I'm thinking, you're right." -
Okay, so now that it's possible, I want a neon orange fish with a big ass wing on the back, and 'VTEC' printed on the scales. Aww, yeah.
And Nitrous boost! Give those dolphins & sharks something to talk about at the water cooler on Monday.
Here I spend all this time perfecting my sychophant technique in preparation for our robot masters and it will more than likely be rendered moot when we're all killed off by mutant housepets gone wrong.
Why do I even bother.....
Finally maybe there will be a cheaper mainstream version of the Bonsai Kitten! I can't wait to get mine.
My subtext is just a figment of your imagination.
Yeah. Heaven forbid a gene mutation makes it into the general population. The next thing you know, evolution might start taking place.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
Those of you who are afraid of everything GM just because it's GM, and who want to stop GM research, are only holding us back.
It's a conspiracy by Ford and Dodge, I tell ya.
The obvious benefit to the allergy free cat is that it won't have to sneeze all the time.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
two fish
red fish
blue fish
Black fish
blue fish
old fish
new glow-in-the-dark zebra fish(tm)
Copyright Dr. Seuss 1960
how these fish taste. .. and whether the glow-in-the-dark effect will .. um .. pass through ...
I know we're probably supposed to be against this, but this is just really cool. Imagine: four, five, even six-assed monkeys!
1) 2-foot elephant
2) "Pocket Grisly" (TM)[yeah, i know...you've got my pocket grisly right there]
3) Giant Gambian Rat (oops...nevermind...we already have those)
4) "Tabletop Tiger" (TM)
5) My First Mammoth (from Galoob)
Does anyone know where you can order one, now? I'm highly interested in acquiring one as a status symbol.
Yes, I know, I am terrible person. This will ruin fish for all future generations. Someday bioluminescent fish will be our overlords, but for the time being, anyone have a url?
"During the winter, I'll just stand outside with an aerosol can. *pssshhhhhhhhhhh* Where's this global warming I keep hearing about? Fuck the grandkids, I'm cold now!"
"We are also "chemicals" as you nicely put it. The human will is a conceit of the human mind. Actually, even the human "mind" is a conceit. All you are doing is defining a model for life and then saying that since genes do not follow your model, they do not live. This is a meaningless argument."
This is not meaningless, this is how all arguments are carried out. You define what you mean by something and then see if that definition works. But that is off topic...
Genes are not just dumb chemicals, eh? Why? You must give a reason for this acertion, if i am to belive it. Are all chemicals "alive" and have a will. Do chemicals have a "will" to react with others? Perhaps Nitrogen prefers to be N2 other than in NH4? What of rocks? Is there will to sit around and eventually reach the bottom of the graitational well? Perhaps this seems like a stupid argument. But this is what i am trying to ask; what, in your mind, differnetiats that with life from that without life?
As for genes ruling the universe....what about protiens? Perhaps they are the true rules of the universe.
(Go back to older African songs saying their women have bigger breasts/ass)
I wouldn't consider "Baby Got Back" an older African song.
Well, I don't know about the oxygen thing, but it seems they'd be a perfect companion for Slashdotters.
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
So, does this mean I will no longer be able to buy my Bonsai Kitten's anymore?
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
> They'll be lunch before you can say "cyalume".
Yes, but that gives them a helluva long time. Sigh-a-loom... key-a-loom... cha-loom-ee... uhh.....
Fuck it
How about a poopless puppy?
I don't know what the solution is, because there are many good uses for GM products, but its an issue that needs to be thought out carefully, instead of just saying "cool!"
That's why we all have to buy Fords!
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One time, my friend went into petsmart and asked to buy some fish.
The lady asked him, "What size aquarium will you be putting these in?".
He replied: "Aquarium? I was just going to chuck them at passing cars in the parking lot!"
~Wx
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(obligatory) Probably not you, if you start glowing...
I'm not shy, I'm stalking my prey
Anyone remember the Taiwanese motherboard capacitor screwup?
I just can't wait until they decide to use some cut-rate genes...