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Here There Be Dragons
ThisNukes4u writes "The Economist reports that scientists in California are coming closer to creating real-life mythical animals. Basically, they re-create the natural selection process through a computer simulation and then clone the resulting set of DNA in a donor animal." From the article: "Each computer starts with a search image (dragon, unicorn, gryphon, etc), and the genome of the real animal most closely resembling it (a lizard for the dragon, a horse for the unicorn and, most taxingly, the spliced genomes of a lion and an eagle for the gryphon). The virtual genomes of these real animals are then tweaked by random electronic mutations. When they have matured, the virtual adults most closely resembling the targets are picked and cross-bred, while the others are culled."
I Like Pickles!!!
Please mod me up to +5!!!!
I'll have 2 please. Grilled, preferably.
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
They will be nothing compared to mighty Trogdor! Those things wouldn't know majesty if it came up and bit 'em in the face.
You know it's gotta be April Fool's when there are no dupes and people actually RTFA... (besides the whole color scheme thing that is)
That's so much more awesome than the genetic algorithms I worked with when I studied AI. Technology has come a long way in the past... few hours.
This is just another sign of the liberal pro-unicorn agenda.
I hope the president takes a stand against this just as he has so powerfully taken a stand against human animal hybrids.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Pffft, the New York Times is clearly superior. They ran fake articles for months before anyone caught on.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
You know, only a virgin can catch a unicorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn). Seems fitting that this gets posted on /.
it's about time someone came up with a more efficent way to create fire. It's now just a simple 6 step process.
/. demographic could do it.
1) google an image of a dragon
2) find an animal that looks like a dragon
3) input 1 and 2 into computer, run simulation
4) take output genome and synthesize DNA
5) place DNA into cell and allow cell to reproduce
6) use resulting dragon to create fire
It's quite simple really, even the new