Science!: Chickens, Musclefish and X-Ray Vision
Let's resurrect us some gyandromorphous dinos!
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Let's resurrect us some gyandromorphous dinos!
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Science!: Chickens, Musclefish and X-Ray Vision
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Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming 
. So I don't see any weight issues by super-breeding fish.
Interesting about the see-through thingy. But if we use the light from the other side of a surface, how would we be able to see through skin? Is there a light source inside our bodies I am not aware of?!
. So I don't see any weight issues by super-breeding fish.Interesting about the see-through thingy. But if we use the light from the other side of a surface, how would we be able to see through skin? Is there a light source inside our bodies I am not aware of?!
It seems impressive to extract DNA from an eggshell that's millions of years old, but not so much when you consider a chicken has one billion base pairs in its genome and they only got out 250 of them. But you do the best you can...
I recently had a lecture about those gyandromorphous chickens, but they didn't tell us that the cells in a chicken don't use hormones for growth and development. That's fascinating! Is it just a mammalian thing? And I wonder when it evolved?
I recently had a lecture about those gyandromorphous chickens, but they didn't tell us that the cells in a chicken don't use hormones for growth and development. That's fascinating! Is it just a mammalian thing? And I wonder when it evolved?
Yes, there is. You are savagely radiating and you don't even know it. It's infrared light. Although I'm not sure if it could be used for imagery...Nincompoop said:Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming
Interesting about the see-through thingy. But if we use the light from the other side of a surface, how would we be able to see through skin? Is there a light source inside our bodies I am not aware of?!
Yes, excellent. But was the laser attached to the head of a frenzied shark?Lauren Admire said:
No?
Perhaps an ill-tempered porpoise?
Really, people, I ask so little of you.
I keep imagining the guy from Jurassic Park shouting 'Nature has found a way!' and then being overrun with chickens, Zelda-style. The fact that the very next news piece was about androgynous chickens didn't help it, either... Seriously speaking, it just goes to show how little science really knows about things like sex (er, as in gender) that one might think is simple.
Is it bad that I read "six pack rainbow trout" and immediately reorganized the words as "rainbow six trout pack" and imagined a DLC for a Rainbow Six games that adds a trout-based game mode?
Is it bad that I read "six pack rainbow trout" and immediately reorganized the words as "rainbow six trout pack" and imagined a DLC for a Rainbow Six games that adds a trout-based game mode?
Screw the birds off, ressurect the hippo sized wombat that he Aboriginals hunted to extinction. Wait a minute, considering how dangerous the Wombat is already, might not be such a good idea.
Buffing the muscles means the fish will weigh more, it's swim bladder has evolved to carry a specific amount of weight. They'd have to increase that too or the fish would drown.Nincompoop said:Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming
as a matter, Jurassic park is one of my favorite movies and i think adding chickens into it would only improve it ten fold...=P
...BUT some other people did. Behold, Chicken Park! [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167825/plotsummary]
Having said that, now you know it exists, avoid it like the plague. I think I saw it when I was 11 or so, and even then my juvenile mind thought it was pretty stupid.
Mammals != vertebrates. Most birds and some reptiles and fish use Z and W chromosomes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system].
Sure. That makes sense. But if from birth they would have weighed more than usual, would their bladders be able to evolve in time? I mean, does it have to take a mutation in the species?008Zulu said:Buffing the muscles means the fish will weigh more, it's swim bladder has evolved to carry a specific amount of weight. They'd have to increase that too or the fish would drown.Nincompoop said:Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming
I know we radiate. I was referring to visible light.LTK_70 said:Yes, there is. You are savagely radiating and you don't even know it. It's infrared light. Although I'm not sure if it could be used for imagery...Nincompoop said:Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming
Interesting about the see-through thingy. But if we use the light from the other side of a surface, how would we be able to see through skin? Is there a light source inside our bodies I am not aware of?!
I was about to make an edit to my comment, asking if other than the visible light could be used. But then the thickness could be over-come by more than a few centimeters. But I think the idea is to make an image, exactly like we see it.
It would take a few generations for a an adaption to evolve naturally. As an example, the Brown snake here in Australia was under threat from the Cane Toad (especially toxic glands) when the snake ate it it would be poisoned and die. In the span of about 50 years, it evoled to a smaller head so it would be unable to eat the toad.Nincompoop said:Sure. That makes sense. But if from birth they would have weighed more than usual, would their bladders be able to evolve in time? I mean, does it have to take a mutation in the species?008Zulu said:Buffing the muscles means the fish will weigh more, it's swim bladder has evolved to carry a specific amount of weight. They'd have to increase that too or the fish would drown.Nincompoop said:Cows wouldn't have leg and joint problems if they were swimming
Maybe with a little encouragement, the fish wont have to wait that long.
The University of Twente is in Enschede, not in Amsterdam. Though he might have been explaining it in Amsterdam...Lauren Admire said:
So, cloned, androgynous chickens with x-ray vision vs. super strong trout. there must be a movie in there somewhere.
You know, there's actually a very unpopular and very crappy spoof of Jurassic Park called Chicken Park. I'm not joking. This is real. I saw it about 7 years ago when i was in high school and it was so utterly awful that we couldn't stop laughing.
The most memorable part was when the female love interest said she was getting so hot, and the main male protagonist agreed and started cooking spaghetti on her "hot" tummy.
Again... this is a real movie... somehow...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Park
..... really.
The most memorable part was when the female love interest said she was getting so hot, and the main male protagonist agreed and started cooking spaghetti on her "hot" tummy.
Again... this is a real movie... somehow...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Park
..... really.
