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 Frazzled wrote:


Whats wrong with chasing deer with rocks? I got an A in that class.

Outside of the Modern Prometheus and the ethical questions raised, we haven't been splicing human genes into anything. Frankly we haven't even been putting jeans on many animals either.
This is whole new level of terror, and don't give me that claptrap about ethics, or rules, or blah blah.

“Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?”

Incorrect. We've been doing it for decades. Here's an article for example from the year 1994

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pigs-bred-to-carry-human-genes-1432494.html

Heres goats

https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2012/08/30/genetically-engineered-goats-produce-human-breast-milk/

Sheep

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/after-dolly-comes-polly-the-sheep-with-human-genes-1252344.html

Cows

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/agriculture/geneticmodification/8423536/Genetically-modified-cows-produce-human-milk.html

We've been doing it for ages, and nothing has gone wrong so far. Sometimes experts know what they are doing, despite the general anti-intellectual bias of the media and general public.

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
I have to agree with Cuda on that one. We'd make for more progress making some talking mice

Might be worth it to hear the little cries of terror and doom.

cuda1179 wrote:Of all the things you could make talk you choose cats???? They'd ignore you for hours before telling you to F-off

I have a dream.
If science can't bring me closer to an all-cat a cappella band named Chipmunk Massacre, then I'd rather we have skipped the whole Enlightenment thing altogether.

I like the way you think, and hopefully some of the scientists on this project have the same thought.

 cuda1179 wrote:
My biggest problem with spicing human DNA into animals is the potential for certain diseases to make the animal-human jump. Many potentially harmful diseases are locked into certain animal strains. If a hybrid gets infected the disease could potentially mutate to accept a human as the next body to infect.

That isn't something to be that worried about. If a disease was going to species jump it needs to evolve virulence factors to allow it to do so and for that it needs a very wide exposure to the new species over a long period of Time. A handful of lab animals with a small set of human genes are not going to create that environment.

 Kovnik Obama wrote:

I have a dream.
If science can't bring me closer to an all-cat a cappella band named Chipmunk Massacre, then I'd rather we have skipped the whole Enlightenment thing altogether.

They can be the opening act for my all cat heavy metal band Cat-aphonic Cat-astrophe

 jmurph wrote:


Also, Manbearpig.

I came here just to post that and you beat me in the 2nd post, congrats.


Interesting to see this happening, although I find it funny they claim they'll have such perfect control to prevent things like a cow with a human's brain.

As a certain woefully typecast actor once said "Life will find a way..."

Doubt we would ever hear about it if something like that happened as that would be a PR disaster, but I doubt it would be the end of the world, just really weird

 Iron_Captain wrote:
Russia is way ahead of the US in terms of weird and freaky experiments. Maybe the Pentagon now wanted to close the "weird science gap"?

Cyborg dogs, hell yeah!

Now we are talking. Let's turn the dog into a cyborg freak then stick him in a giant weapons platform. No way that goes badly! I support Lassie!

I support anything that helps little boys and girls get the hearts they need because they were born with congenitive heart defect. Better yet, maybe this leads to helping stop it from ever happening in the first place.

Science is based on controls. Control your environment, sometimes the unexpected happens, and wow, look what we learned. If you quit using certain books as your moral compass, and start looking at the advancements that can be made, and the human lives we can improve, all without hurting another human being, then how could you not want this?