What bug genitalia might look like. That yellow stuff? Fly semen.



Sadly I did not receive a government grant.

Well .. in terms of species barriers the cock is pretty damn important.

Bug genitalia researcher loses virginity: "!!OMG!!!"

Vox Sciurorum: What bug genitalia might look like. That yellow stuff? Fly semen.



Sadly I did not receive a government grant.

Is insanely jealous.....

/kiss and make up

Didn't I see this on The X-Files?

Whoever defunds the NSF gets my vote.

being a Mecoptera means never having to shave

duckpoopy: Whoever defunds the NSF gets my vote.

Once we understand bug genitalia, we can produce pesticides that cause bug offspring to lack the functional components of said genitalia. Then they give birth to sterile bugs. Sterile bugs = less bugs.

Less bugs = cheaper produce.


You sound like a tea bagger

I know a guy who's doing his PhD thesis on fruit fly mating behavior. It's more interesting than it sounds*, but he gets nothing but "you watch fly porn all day?" jokes.

*He's trying to decode which neural pathways are used for which parts of the mating behavior, which is a first step toward understanding our own innate neural mechanics.

duckpoopy:

Whoever defunds the NSF gets my vote.

And why is that, if you don't mind my asking?

Leaving satisfied, thanks Thanks for the Meme-ries

Britney Spear's Speculum: duckpoopy: Whoever defunds the NSF gets my vote.

Once we understand bug genitalia, we can produce pesticides that cause bug offspring to lack the functional components of said genitalia. Then they give birth to sterile bugs. Sterile bugs = less bugs.

Less bugs = cheaper produce.


You sound like a tea bagger

Your concept of a possible outcome from this research sounds like it has the potential for horrific environmental impacts. 0_0

/however, fark flies.

Clowns are a Ten: /however, fark flies.

I would if I could only find their genitalia.

/this research is of interest to me

Ya know, there's the science that they taught you in high school, and then there's real science.

There's the great theoretical stuff like F=MA, F=G(M1+M2)/d^2 or even E=Mc^2 and if you're clever enough to notice the pattern, the stuff you learned was the theoretical stuff.

So let me ask you... Did Newton or Einstein wake up one freakin' morning and just come up with these this shiat out of a vacuum?

No, they did not. They figured out a pattern developed from a farkton of anonymous people collecting data. In other words, grad students doing grunt work, patiently, and over long periods of time.

/ not a grad student, but I empathize.

Well, ok... Dirac did in fact create his ideas from a vacuum, but he's a degenerate case.

Silly in what way? I would imagining eating is something that most people consider important, and reproduction of insects is fairly critical in lots of ways (both positive, such as bees and other pollinators, and negative, such as pests).

You know, it's bad enough that we have to deal with Big Oil, Big Labor and Big Pharma. Now we have to deal with Big Genetalia?

This is getting out of hand!

/what?

fun fact: 'Formicophilia' is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals

I'm not saying how I know that.

TheHopeDiamond:
Didn't I see this on The X-Files?


"Her name is 'Bambi'?"

/cool memory, bro

Zap_Rowsdower: I know a guy who's doing his PhD thesis on fruit fly mating behavior. It's more interesting than it sounds*, but he gets nothing but "you watch fly porn all day?" jokes.

*He's trying to decode which neural pathways are used for which parts of the mating behavior, which is a first step toward understanding our own innate neural mechanics.

Most people hear about studying fruit flies and think it's silly(like Palin), but don't realize there are several very good reasons why fruit flies are picked for lab work. Ultimately it's research to figure out how humans work.

beer4breakfast: Zap_Rowsdower: I know a guy who's doing his PhD thesis on fruit fly mating behavior. It's more interesting than it sounds*, but he gets nothing but "you watch fly porn all day?" jokes.

*He's trying to decode which neural pathways are used for which parts of the mating behavior, which is a first step toward understanding our own innate neural mechanics.

Most people hear about studying fruit flies and think it's silly(like Palin), but don't realize there are several very good reasons why fruit flies are picked for lab work. Ultimately it's research to figure out how humans work.

Those of us who have spent years in a nonhuman primate neurophysiology lab would point out many many problems with that :P

Ashelth: beer4breakfast: Zap_Rowsdower: I know a guy who's doing his PhD thesis on fruit fly mating behavior. It's more interesting than it sounds*, but he gets nothing but "you watch fly porn all day?" jokes.

*He's trying to decode which neural pathways are used for which parts of the mating behavior, which is a first step toward understanding our own innate neural mechanics.

Most people hear about studying fruit flies and think it's silly(like Palin), but don't realize there are several very good reasons why fruit flies are picked for lab work. Ultimately it's research to figure out how humans work.

Those of us who have spent years in a nonhuman primate neurophysiology lab would point out many many problems with that :P

Really? I'd love to hear why.