i, for one...

The future is looking more and more like zombies.

for the love of god this is a joke it's just a photoshoop and the press fell for it oh please tell me this isn't real i can haz teddy bear now you suckers always falling for the shoops oh please oh please oh please ohpleaseohpleaseohplease mommyholdmeeee

DEATH BY SNU-SNU!!

xlbrooklyn: DEATH BY SNU-SNU!!

Well, it is interesting that the genotype can crank this phenotype out with the application of certain doses of hormones, but without some environmental challenge this type would be a huge net drag on its colony. The colony make the ants it needs, any more is a waste of energy and resources.

IgG4: Well, it is interesting that the genotype can crank this phenotype out with the application of certain doses of hormones, but without some environmental challenge this type would be a huge net drag on its colony. The colony make the ants it needs, any more is a waste of energy and resources.

Ants don't have degrees in economics, nor are they mindless automatons. They're actually quite interesting and usually the ans the colony "needs" are the ants that happen to be on hand, for weal or for woe. You should read the book Ants At Work for more in depth.

But I think the big discovery here isn't "Whoa, we can give these ladies prehistoric heads." but "Whoa, one hormone can activate this retro DNA strand." Imagine if the same ideas could be applied to birth defects and such to give our babbys even better chances of being worthy of the Spartan elders.

doglover: Imagine if the same ideas could be applied to birth defects and such to give our babbys even better chances of being worthy of the Spartan elders.

I don't know. Even if we could develop this type of technology for use on human babbys, do you think we should? After all, how well could a huge-headed babby actually hope to succeed in protecting the house against a raid by army babbys?

FloydA: doglover: Imagine if the same ideas could be applied to birth defects and such to give our babbys even better chances of being worthy of the Spartan elders.

I don't know. Even if we could develop this type of technology for use on human babbys, do you think we should? After all, how well could a huge-headed babby actually hope to succeed in protecting the house against a raid by army babbys?

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IgG4: Well, it is interesting that the genotype can crank this phenotype out with the application of certain doses of hormones, but without some environmental challenge this type would be a huge net drag on its colony. The colony make the ants it needs, any more is a waste of energy and resources.

This phenotype was probably exactly what it needed to be a very long time ago. Like they're finding with experiments in turning on dinosaur-like features in developing baby birds, it seems that genotypes never forget what they once were; they just turn off or never activate segments that are no longer useful. Which makes sense, from an evolutionary standpoint they may need to incorporate aspects of that ancient form again if conditions change. You evolutionary biologists correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my understanding.

I for one welcome our new ant overlords.

Strolpol: 2012 is slowly turning into a 50s B-Movie.

Slowly? We're less than a week in!

Oh yeah, first its ants turning into prehistoric monster bugs, the next thing you've got Lt. Barclay turning into a giant goddamn spider and scaring everyone in engineering.

Ants! Ants! Ants!

Ryker's Peninsula: Don't panic.
I'm sure scientists will have a freakish super-soldier anteater to sell us once they release these onto the public.

p.s.
It's not news... it's fark
We don't make news, we mock it
Real news, Real funny
Enough.
How about a realistic slogan: "We're either unemployed, hate our jobs, have no sex life, or hate our family."

You forgot "Suffer from disorders which keep up inside away from the general population".

Clowns are a Ten: See, people will think we'll start making our own super soldiers, or that we'll use this to develop cures for diseases, ect.

No.

We will get penis enlargement pills.

I don't know about you, but personally I'm not going to complain.

/so ronery