The Nightstar Zoo

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0122/p14s02-sten.html

First off, I have to say, thats just cool. Glowing fishies.

But does the article make its point? Should we be concerned about transgenic animals? What are the risks? Who should be the watchdog in this case?

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Robert A Heinlein (As Hartley M Baldwin, in Friday)

I say we improve nature as much as we can. Provieded we can all agree that it's an improvement. Which won't happen.

Some people are worried about the horrible transgenic plague of death or something. It wouldn't be the first time a technological progress has unforeseen consequences.

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Right on! I've got to get me some of those fishes. That kicks ass.

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Do you think they could be used as night lights?

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What was the question, again?

Yes.

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The great trouble with a religion, any religion, is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fires of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason, but one cannot have both.

Robert A Heinlein (As Hartley M Baldwin, in Friday)

I'm just waiting for them to clone mammoths. I want to go mammoth hunting in Siberia.

I'll go to Siberia some day regardless, but seeing mammoths would be cool.

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Animal.

That's a fucking great idea, man.



Although actually returning mammoths to an area that hasn't had them in some thousands of years might upset things a bit.

They won't glow without a UV light on 'em all the time. That wouldn't be very safe- you'll damage your eyes. Actually, I wonder what it will do to the fish...

I do like the idea though. I'd get a few if I had my fishtank going. It's not like these things could escape and destroy an ecosystem. If anything, they have a maladaptive trait there- they're more visible under certain conditions.

Sadly, if it even is possible, they'll never produce more than a token, captive population for that very reason. Too bad.

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What sort of weapon would you have to use in order to take down a mammoth, anyway?

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An elephant gun ought to do it.

Vorn

A real man would use a garrote.
The kittens suggest an RPG-7. They always overdo things.

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A religion is sometimes a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak.
The great trouble with a religion, any religion, is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fires of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason, but one cannot have both.

Robert A Heinlein (As Hartley M Baldwin, in Friday)

Naw, a real man would use a toothpick.

Or his bare hands...Oh, to the heck with it: He'll just will the mamoth to death with his mind.

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We've been working on that. Not quite perfected yet.

I'm making a list, they'll never be missed.

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A religion is sometimes a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak.
The great trouble with a religion, any religion, is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fires of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason, but one cannot have both.

Robert A Heinlein (As Hartley M Baldwin, in Friday)

Better yet, don't clone the thing and it won't exist in the first place.

Spear.

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Like Goldberg? Hardcore!

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I'm nothing if not hardcore.

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Twine.

Think about it.

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Something witty.

Bah, what is a toothpick but a handicapped spear?

If you tried to use a toothpick the mammoth'd probably laugh itself to death.

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What was the question, again?

Not if ya did it right.

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A religion is sometimes a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak.
The great trouble with a religion, any religion, is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fires of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason, but one cannot have both.

Robert A Heinlein (As Hartley M Baldwin, in Friday)

A shovel.

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CALL ME MINH DAMMIT.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895

A girl with STDs. That'll kill it.

Rocks. Big ones.

Lots of ice. That's what did them in in the first place.

If I can't kill it with a piece of piano wire and 2 oak toggles, it deserves to live forever.

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A religion is sometimes a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak.
The great trouble with a religion, any religion, is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fires of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason, but one cannot have both.

Robert A Heinlein (As Hartley M Baldwin, in Friday)

A luminous goldfish.

There. I just brought the conversation back full circle. Now it may romp as it pleases, having fufiled it's destiny.

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Something witty.