Curse

Onarik Amrak · Dec 13, 2007, 03:39 AM // 03:39

Full Article: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=335560

How cool is that?

Jedimagician · Dec 13, 2007, 03:40 AM // 03:40

thats fuking awesome!

I pwnd U · Dec 13, 2007, 03:43 AM // 03:43

Sweet, I knew that they had genetically transfered the genes of a jellyfish that glows into fish, but I didn't know they were working on getting cats to glow. That is pretty neat.

Halmyr · Dec 13, 2007, 03:52 AM // 03:52

Ditto, except when I saw this news a few years back, it was glowing monkeys O.o

artay · Dec 13, 2007, 03:56 AM // 03:56

*pauses to comtemplate*

That is so frcking cool!, Me want glow cat!!!

Shadowmere · Dec 13, 2007, 04:14 AM // 04:14

That really really rocks. I tottally want one

**Marty Silverblade** · Dec 13, 2007, 04:19 AM // 04:19

I read about this in the newspaper this morning. How would you like to be woken up in the middle of the night and have some glowing thing crawling on you?

Shadowmere · Dec 13, 2007, 04:23 AM // 04:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade

I read about this in the newspaper this morning. How would you like to be woken up in the middle of the night and have some glowing thing crawling on you?

well as long as it was a cuddly fuzzy thing I'd be perfectly ok with it

Onarik Amrak · Dec 13, 2007, 04:27 AM // 04:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade

I read about this in the newspaper this morning. How would you like to be woken up in the middle of the night and have some glowing thing crawling on you?

Think of it as an organic night light.

I'd so get the cat on the right.

OI-812 · Dec 13, 2007, 07:33 AM // 07:33

Sweeeeeet. Can I get one that glows blue?

Inde · Dec 13, 2007, 03:41 PM // 15:41

Okay, I just saw this article and am I the only one who's taken back by the "side effect" being glow-in-the-dark??? I mean, wasn't it always a big joke that some freak/exposed to radiation/etc. in the comic books was a mutant? And this is okay with everyone!!!

IslandHermet · Dec 13, 2007, 03:55 PM // 15:55

They do not Glow in the dark. They glow under ultraviolet light, scientists have tweaked the genes of the cat on the right, Both cats are 1 in the same. The cat on the left in the original cat the one on the right in a CLONE that has had its Genes changed as to make it glow under ultraviolet light.

MMSDome · Dec 13, 2007, 04:33 PM // 16:33

lol saw this twice already now this is the third time! This story is everywhere, would freak me out to see a cat glowing in the dark running around at night.

Faer · Dec 13, 2007, 06:57 PM // 18:57

Now if only they could find a permanent cure for allergies to felines, so I could get a kitten for my woman.

placebo overdose · Dec 13, 2007, 08:47 PM // 20:47

lol what should we call them?????

Miss Puddles · Dec 13, 2007, 09:08 PM // 21:08

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Originally Posted by placebo overdose

lol what should we call them?????

chaos cats

ensoriki · Dec 13, 2007, 10:08 PM // 22:08

chaocats, freaking awesome

they mentioned something stupid here.
"we can clone endangered species"
considering some of them are endangered because of us, this is bullshit.
Just let them breed naturally!

Sol_Vie · Dec 13, 2007, 10:13 PM // 22:13

So wait you're saying they shouldn't clone them, making it easier for them to breed and in some ways reversing what we've done... rather, they should let them breed on their own... which they're having a hard time doing... because of us.

You sir, win.

Onarik Amrak · Dec 14, 2007, 02:19 AM // 02:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by ensoriki

chaocats, freaking awesome

they mentioned something stupid here.
"we can clone endangered species"
considering some of them are endangered because of us, this is bullshit.
Just let them breed naturally!

You miss the point.

Pandas for example are endangered and have very low sex drive, which means they don't reproduce easily.

Then you have to factor in minimum viable population. If a population is too critically endangered, it becomes very unlikely they'll survive without intervention. Inbreeding is another problem...

Last of all, I think an important part of that research was identifying genetic diseases and working out how to cure them. Cloning endangered species is a side-effect of their main research.

ensoriki · Dec 14, 2007, 02:26 AM // 02:26

>.< Curing disease ftl.
Human population is to high.
Let some people die plz.

K fine clone the endangered species, but breeding a fake an original....wtf could happen to offspring?