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Originally posted by Shadow88
Purely for scientific curiousity, what is the plausibility of speeding up evolution so to speak, to see what certain animals wuld become in this experiment.
perhaps by choosing one randomly selected sperm and another egg from a mouse, and the moment you are able to extract another sperm and egg do the same, and again and again, for perhaps 4000 - 10000 times, accounting for a substantial amount of time, and see what happens?
is there a quicker way than waiting until one can extract the sex cells?
Originally posted by Shadow88
nothin wrong with em but breedin cool things we havent got yet would be cool.
Originally posted by sardion2000
Ah yes some more Chriton-esqe fear-mongering So what should we do just stick out heads in the sand and stop asking questions? Denying Human Nature is what that is... It always gets me when people take Fiction serously, Chriton is cooking up another anti-intellectual movie this time targetting Nanotechnology in his book and upcoming movie "Prey". I had a debate on wether or not we should clone a Dinosaur if we ever get to that point in genetics with a friends of mine, it was a very short lived debate as his opener was Look at Jurassic Park, as if that was a probable scenario which it isn't...
What you call Rape, I call climbing the ladder of knowledge and defferientiating ourselves from our superstitious fanatical ancestors.
Originally posted by Shadow88
its not dangerous, or irresponsible, it would be a controlled, sterile experiment for curiosity.
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
oh really ? taken out of context with no relative ecosystem, how would mankind benefit ?
we're talking about manipulating evolution...playing god....
What happens when an activist group releases the poor critters (in a jar with a leaf on the bottom, oh boy) and they wipes out an ecosystem (see australian dingoes, or cane toads as examples) ???
pandora's box, and just another example of how mankind uses technology in a irresponsible way, consequences be damned, we've got grants to win, papers to publish, and questions to answer......my 2 cents....