What do you call a bag full of monkey parts?

Rhesus pieces.

Or they could just catch a rerun online.

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Or they could just catch a rerun online.

Beat me to it ;)

All they're doing is cutting and pasting DNA together, what's the worst that could happ...

OH GOD ITS AN ELEPHANT WITH THE HEAD OF AN EAGLE AND THE CLAWS OF A LION. IT HAS A TASTE FOR FLESH. SAVE YOURSELVES BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.

In all seriousness, when was the last time a movie disaster became reality? Hollywood knows that the best way to make a buck is blow things way beyond the realm of remote possibility.

Note here that lots of times movies feature *real* disasters like nuke plant accidents and earthquakes. The fake part is when Mothra rises from the ashes to crush civilization.

Clicked hoping for sharks with lasers on their heads...

/leaving disappointed

Okay, the money they named Chimero is definitely going to become a super villain.

Fubini: In all seriousness, when was the last time a movie disaster became reality? Hollywood knows that the best way to make a buck is blow things way beyond the realm of remote possibility.

Note here that lots of times movies feature *real* disasters like nuke plant accidents and earthquakes. The fake part is when Mothra rises from the ashes to crush civilization.

To be fair, monster movies of the godzilla variety weren't really being intentionally disingenuous, the monsters were just intended as metaphors that sometimes got lost in translation (godzilla started as a metaphor for the destructive outcome of overfishing, etc). Movies that seriously posited that radiation would turn people into vampires or whatever are generally b-movies.

Chimera research, eh? I'm sure there's no way that could go...



...I gave myself a sad.

So when can I buy my armor plated bearmadillo?

erewhon: So when can I buy my armor plated bearmadillo?

Strolpol: ...I gave myself a sad.



Getting dusty in here.

Apparently, knowing how to create chimeras doesn't give one the creativity to name the damn things.

Seriously, two of the names mean six, and the third means 'an animal composed of multiple genes'. That's the real sad here.

Fubini: In all seriousness, when was the last time a movie disaster became reality? Hollywood knows that the best way to make a buck is blow things way beyond the realm of remote possibility.

We're getting closer and closer to Gattaca all the time.

Ceasar is home.

That was a reasonable scientific article from Fox News! This for me is a bigger breakthrough than the science itself!

Jim_Callahan: To be fair, monster movies of the godzilla variety weren't really being intentionally disingenuous, the monsters were just intended as metaphors that sometimes got lost in translation (godzilla started as a metaphor for the destructive outcome of overfishing, etc).

Actually, Godzilla was a metaphor for the atomic bomb. It's not like it was any secret, either, they hammered it into your skull good and deep in the Japanese version, but since it was the US that had bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was toned down in the Raymond Burr version, but you can still see echoes of it.

Interesting article until the author insisted on using 'mama' a couple of times. Grr

Fubini: All they're doing is cutting and pasting DNA together, what's the worst that could happ...

OH GOD ITS AN ELEPHANT WITH THE HEAD OF AN EAGLE AND THE CLAWS OF A LION. IT HAS A TASTE FOR FLESH. SAVE YOURSELVES BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.

That thing would look awesome.

Also, they weren't cutting and pasting DNA at all, I guess you didn't read the article. The were injecting stem cells from different monkeys into very early stage embryos. The cool part is that somehow the monkeys can grow up having cells with different DNA without complications (at least the article didn't mention any).

The possibly bad part is all the complex diseases that could develop from having different cells with different DNA...or maybe not. If the DNA is similar enough between each culture, the DNA from each different cell line might all be activated in exactly the same way. After all, your skin cells and brain cells have the same DNA but they sure are different tissue types.

@ subby - serious farking business.

Makh: Is that open to any scientist, or just biologists?

Tough call. Do I want to get killed by some GM mistake, or Skynet? Maybe get sucked into a mini-black hole. fark it, let them play. The Mayans might be right.

/feeling really pessimistic today....