December 2nd, 2015: Hen's Teeth

lumberjim · 12-02-2015, 06:08 AM

You assume this is American money

xoxoxoBruce · 12-02-2015, 06:34 AM

Bhullar is Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator, Geology & Geophysics at Yale.
Abzhano is an Associate Professor at Harvard.

glatt · 12-02-2015, 07:34 AM

As far as tinkering with DNA goes to make these bizarre things, that genie is out of the bottle. Human don't have a very good track record of ignoring knowledge and leaving well enough alone. Even if major scientific bodies decide that this sort of stuff is unethical, somebody somewhere in the world is going to do it. My bet is on China. They think eating tiger penises will make you powerful. They will make a chicken with teeth in a heartbeat if they want to. They will make dinosaurs if they want to.

Hell, even the US federal government just ruled last month that it's cool to feed genetically modified salmon to people without telling them what it is they are eating.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-02-2015, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

... They think eating tiger penises will make you powerful.

Um... it doesn't?

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They will make dinosaurs if they want to.

Good idea, I've seen pictures of several abandoned amusement parks in China.
Like this one for instance...

Look at those walls, they could plunk a couple Dinos in there and that parking lot would be full up. What could go wrong?

12-02-2015, 06:08 AM	#1
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12-02-2015, 06:34 AM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Bhullar is Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator, Geology & Geophysics at Yale. Abzhano is an Associate Professor at Harvard. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-02-2015, 07:34 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	As far as tinkering with DNA goes to make these bizarre things, that genie is out of the bottle. Human don't have a very good track record of ignoring knowledge and leaving well enough alone. Even if major scientific bodies decide that this sort of stuff is unethical, somebody somewhere in the world is going to do it. My bet is on China. They think eating tiger penises will make you powerful. They will make a chicken with teeth in a heartbeat if they want to. They will make dinosaurs if they want to. Hell, even the US federal government just ruled last month that it's cool to feed genetically modified salmon to people without telling them what it is they are eating.

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