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Japanese Creating "Super Tuna"
motherpusbucket writes "The Telegraph reports that Japanese scientists hope to be breeding a so-called 'Super Tuna' within the next decade or so. They have about 60% of the genome mapped and expect to finish it in the next couple months. The new breed will grow faster, taste good, have resistance to disease and will totally kick your ass if you cross them."
Have they bred them with frickin' laser beams though?
Teenage Kanji Ninja Tuna
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A modify the DNA so that few dozen Sharks Fins appear on the new fish.
Perhaps they could save the real thing from extinction.
Then again the 'Green Lobby' would rise up against 'Genetically Modified Fish' Sigh.
Davegravy slaps Captain Splendid around a bit with a Super Tuna
'nuf said...
Proverbs 21:19
I predict they will genetically enhance the necessary parts to incorporate them into the weird porn industry that thrives in Japan. After the tunas career is up they can still serve his enhanced parts as a rare delicacy in restaurants.
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As long as the ninja tuna are identified clearly so in the packaging, I whole-heartedly support this idea, but they should leave the wild tuna alone. I would even donate money to the Japanese if they would leave the wild tuna alone and create an artificial ocean with military protection so that the ninja tuna don't accidentally breed with wild tuna.
Damn, and I thought husbands were already whipped.
It's a tunami!
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No, what they mean is: Current tuna tastes excellent. Power tuna will merely taste good.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
"Natural" tuna have had their genes altered through hundreds of years of breading.
Tuna comes pre-breaded now? Talk about a time saver!
May I be the first to welcome our new Tuna overloards...
No you may not.
May I be the first to say you can tune a filesystem but you can't tuna fish. Oh wait, someone beat me to it.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Since this is Japan, we would need to be more worried about tentacles. Anything Japanese that has tentacles is bad, bad news for schoolgirls the world over.
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That sounds a little kinkier than necessary for the public internet.
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Stop having a boring tuna. Stop having a boring life.
-- Vince 'Slap Chop' Offer
maybe, but what happens if the super tuna out competes and eats all non-super tuna?
Darwin wins. See, tuna made themselves to tasty that:
1) They'd be overfished.
2) We'd see that, and then make them EVEN BETTER and plentiful.
Well done tuna. You've won the genetic lottery.
that Green Peace had canned this line of research some time ago?
We should hunt them to near-extinction. Then they'll get put on the extinction list and all tuna fishing will be banned. Then my roommate will have to find a different terrible-smelling food to eat. . . in mass quantities . . . EVERY evening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Japan, super tuna eat you!
Teenage Kanji Ninja Tuna
Teenage Kanji Ninja Tuna
Teenage Kanji Ninja Tuna
Heroes in my sandwich
Tuna Power!
wouldn't it be a rural legend?
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Are you advocating that people try to grow fish in their gardens?
Undoubtedly the first message from the Super Tuna Council will be:
ALL YOUR BAYS ARE BELONG TO US.
Perhaps developing tasty humans would address food and population issues simultaneously.