The first GM pets...

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-06-29 12:25pm

Glow in the dark fish

(this is assuming you don't consider artificial selection to be genetic modification, as I do)

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-29 12:40pm

Horary! Another expensive pointless novelty for the consumer market. Forward into the future we go. And of course since they're sterile people will have to constantly buy new ones.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-06-29 12:44pm

Cool. Now if they can just some practical use for Spider-Goat.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2003-06-29 12:46pm

I want some. I'll have to get myself some. (Who cares if they're a novelty, I want them to annoy Anti GM people)

SS: The reason they're sterile is because of the laws regarding GM we have here.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-29 01:35pm

This is kind of cool.

But how is this any more of a fashion accessory than those ladies that dress up their little dogs and carry them around in their handbags.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2003-06-29 02:39pm

NecronLord wrote:I want some. I'll have to get myself some. (Who cares if they're a novelty, I want them to annoy Anti GM people)

SS: The reason they're sterile is because of the laws regarding GM we have here.

Just wait until they manage to do it with Axolotls

Post by **NecronLord** » 2003-06-29 03:02pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote: Just wait until they manage to do it with Axolotls

Heh. I have other fish y'know. I used to have some of this species (non GM).

Prehaps they could make a GM Axolotl that's smart enough to figue out where his food is in under ten minutes (If they haven't ambushed it first go, they take forever to find it).

Nahh.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-06-29 03:23pm

NecronLord wrote:SS: The reason they're sterile is because of the laws regarding GM we have here.

And also to make people keep buying new ones. Its' a common practice amung those who market crop seeds to farmers.

And Aly, surely you mean salamanders? Axolotls aren't a species.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2003-06-29 04:12pm

innerbrat wrote:
NecronLord wrote:SS: The reason they're sterile is because of the laws regarding GM we have here.
And also to make people keep buying new ones. Its' a common practice amung those who market crop seeds to farmers.

I am aware of the 'terminator gene' routine. However, in this case, it's quite clear that it's cuased a massive cost (extra years development) to the company, and people aren't likely to buy replacements anyway. As Skimmer said, it's a novelty, once you've had one set, you probably won't buy again. Thus it's unlikely that the company would have done it anywa, as there's no profit in it.

And Aly, surely you mean salamanders? Axolotls aren't a species.

They're generally called Axolotls, in the same way as there is a seperate term for catterpillars, they were given the name before the species' life cycle was understood. (It was only discovered when in 1865)

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2003-06-29 04:38pm

I'm waiting for my Hover-cat.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-29 06:01pm

Lonestar wrote:I'm waiting for my Hover-cat.

Easy. Strap a piece of toast with jam spread on it on a cat's back and drop it.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-06-29 06:07pm

University of Hawaii did glowing mice some years ago... Very similar.

I can't wait until you have glow-in-the-dark cats... Those would make awersome pets!

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2003-06-29 06:12pm

Exonerate wrote:University of Hawaii did glowing mice some years ago... Very similar.

I can't wait until you have glow-in-the-dark cats... Those would make awersome pets!

Not if you're the type that let pets sleep in your room, imagine trying to fall asleep while there's a big glowing thing in the same room.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-06-29 06:30pm

neoolong wrote:
Lonestar wrote:I'm waiting for my Hover-cat.
Easy. Strap a piece of toast with jam spread on it on a cat's back and drop it.

I've heard that before...

"If a cat always lands on it's back, and toast always lands butter-side up, then what would happen if you put a piece of toast on a cat and drop it from a building? I think it would create a rip in space-time."

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-06-29 06:48pm

wow....these'd make great night-lights around my house.....

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2003-06-29 08:26pm

neoolong wrote:
Lonestar wrote:I'm waiting for my Hover-cat.
Easy. Strap a piece of toast with jam spread on it on a cat's back and drop it.

What?

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-29 09:20pm

Lonestar wrote:
neoolong wrote:
Lonestar wrote:I'm waiting for my Hover-cat.
Easy. Strap a piece of toast with jam spread on it on a cat's back and drop it.
What?

A cat always lands on its feet, and toast always lands jam side down. So if you strap on the toast to the back of a cat it can't land on either its feet, or the jam will be face up. And it can't land jam side down or the cat will be on its back. So it just hovers in the air.

You know it's much funnier when I don't have to explain it.

Yuri Prime · Post by **Yuri Prime** » 2003-06-29 10:07pm

Fear my giant iguana-crab.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-29 10:21pm

Yuri Prime wrote:Fear my giant iguana-crab.

Can't beat my sharks with lasers on their heads.

Yuri Prime · Post by **Yuri Prime** » 2003-06-29 10:30pm

neoolong wrote:
Yuri Prime wrote:Fear my giant iguana-crab.
Can't beat my sharks with lasers on their heads.

Right, but I would think that would be more of a grafting process than GM...

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-30 01:03am

Yuri Prime wrote:
neoolong wrote:
Yuri Prime wrote:Fear my giant iguana-crab.
Can't beat my sharks with lasers on their heads.
Right, but I would think that would be more of a grafting process than GM...

Silence. Don't make me get out the shark pit.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-30 01:30am

neoolong wrote:
Can't beat my sharks with lasers on their heads.

My 20-foot long depth charge using Beavers with tungsten skeletons own your puny sharks.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-06-30 01:31am

I'm reminded of the game Incredible Lobsters...

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-06-30 01:33am

Sea Skimmer wrote:
neoolong wrote:
Can't beat my sharks with lasers on their heads.
My 20-foot long depth charge using Beavers with tungsten skeletons own your puny sharks.

But can they go in salt water?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-06-30 02:40am

Yuri Prime wrote:Fear my giant iguana-crab.

Sorry it was stolen by my Ferret-Chimp