Thoraiya DyerMicrobes, Mice, Men...more Unknown Species yet?
December 3rd 2006 22:02
filed under FREEWARE FUTURE
It's amazing when scientists tell us that there's still so many crawlers and creepers in the world that have not been discovered and named yet. I'd imagined some of them were already extinct before they got taxonomically christened.
I don't see anything wrong, however, with manipulating the telomeres and genomes(?) of near-extinct species to lengthen their lifespan, or give them such great libido to propagate further (see, I'm becoming one of them scientist-gods, grrr!).
Mapping out global biodiversity and prescribing the medicine for balanced ecology is a noble concern. Because of this, I'm going to send a petition for the all-out extermination of cockroaches. If scientists finally realize how we are all likely to die by the dirt these critters transmit, they would probably manipulate the species genetically and interbreed them -- so the resulting roach species would be genetically inclined to crawl in a sea of Lysol and die.
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NEW SCIENTIST
Edward O. Wilson forecasts the future
It's amazing when scientists tell us that there's still so many crawlers and creepers in the world that have not been discovered and named yet. I'd imagined some of them were already extinct before they got taxonomically christened.
I don't see anything wrong, however, with manipulating the telomeres and genomes(?) of near-extinct species to lengthen their lifespan, or give them such great libido to propagate further (see, I'm becoming one of them scientist-gods, grrr!).
Mapping out global biodiversity and prescribing the medicine for balanced ecology is a noble concern. Because of this, I'm going to send a petition for the all-out extermination of cockroaches. If scientists finally realize how we are all likely to die by the dirt these critters transmit, they would probably manipulate the species genetically and interbreed them -- so the resulting roach species would be genetically inclined to crawl in a sea of Lysol and die.
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NEW SCIENTIST
Edward O. Wilson forecasts the future
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