Swamp Thing is real! D:

[Alondro]

And it's a slug!!

Animals Going Green-Literally

So... these slugs have the secret to creating complex genetic chimeric organisms! 

Or in other words... FURRIES!!! 

Let the unholy experiments begin!   

[Eibborn]

Oh gosh, no way! I always wondered if that kind of thing was possible.

[Netrogo]

I hope to god I live to see the day that genetic modification becomes a reality. Just for the hilarious freaks we'll see on the streets.

[Kafzeil]

Holy crap...The End is Nigh!

No, really, soon we'll have people who are part plant, part human.[/Really Dumb MGS joke]

[GabrielsThoughts]

fascinating...

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Cool. I've heard of bacteria doing similar things, but never an eukaryote.

[Alondro]

I hope to god I live to see the day that genetic modification becomes a reality. Just for the hilarious freaks we'll see on the streets.

*injects you with something quickly, while yer not looking, then sneaks away to watch the results*   

[Lysander]

A photosynthetic animal that produces Chlorophyll...a very interesting creature. And yeah, many possibilities may come whence they learn what allows the creature to literally become like what it eats.   

[Keleth]

Yay! Something else to see what science will bring!


I'm just waiting for a giant "The Blob" and people out on the streets screaming "What has science done?!"

[Vidar]

fascinating...

Quite so, isn't it old chap?
Unfortunately, it's a very far cry from this:

[MT Hazard]

An aquatic slug they has genetic engineering potential?  Seems somewhat familiar...

Bring on the Plasmids!

[Mao]

An aquatic slug they has genetic engineering potential?  Seems somewhat familiar...

Bring on the Plasmids!

Oddly enough that's where my train of thought went too.

[Dekari]

Science has discovered an animal that can adapt outside DNA into it's own then pass it on to it's next generation thus probably answers, and at the same time raises more, questions about genetics?   Neat 


But.......

/sarcasm

Hey science, how goes that cure for cancer?  What's that, slipped your mind?  Aw, that's too bad.  Hey, here's an idea, how about you get back on that.  Oh and while your at it, think you can look into those affordable flying cars you promised us 10 years ago too?

/sarcasm


Eh, someone had to do it 

[Vidar]

Science has discovered an animal that can adapt outside DNA into it's own then pass it on to it's next generation thus probably answers, and at the same time raises more, questions about genetics?   Neat 


But.......

/sarcasm

Hey science, how goes that cure for cancer?  What's that, slipped your mind?  Aw, that's too bad.  Hey, here's an idea, how about you get back on that.  Oh and while your at it, think you can look into those affordable flying cars you promised us 10 years ago too?

/sarcasm


Eh, someone had to do it 

I noted the sarcasm quotes, so I take it you do know the markedly increased survival-rates of cancer-patients since a mere few decades ago?  This slug may even help in the continued research in cancer treatments in some way. Maybe.

The flying car thing? Yeah, I want one too. And where the hell is my holo-deck, guys? Hop to it!

[Valynth]

The flying car thing? Yeah, I want one too. And where the hell is my holo-deck, guys? Hop to it!

They were working on it, but we haven't heard from that division for several months....

[Alondro]

Pretty much all cancer is curable now IF you catch it in the early stages.  Problem is that many cancers have no overt symptoms until it's too late.

My uncle was diagnosed with colon cancer in a stage just early enough to be cured.  Ironically, they only found it because he nearly cut his arm off with a chainsaw while pruning a tree.

[Lysander]

It's things like that which show how even something seemingly awful like getting one's arm nearly sawed off can turn out to be a good thing to the point of saving one's life.   

[Anker Steadfast]

Imagine how evolution would have gone, if one of the early organisms had been self supportive, needing only water and sunlight ?
Predators probably wouldn't have existed.
Just imagine what odd sort of beings that would have come along instead ?

Treants ?
Small trolls with grass on their heads ?

A living football field that can play the game without players ?

/sarcasm

Hey science, how goes that cure for cancer?  What's that, slipped your mind?  Aw, that's too bad.  Hey, here's an idea, how about you get back on that.  Oh and while your at it, think you can look into those affordable flying cars you promised us 10 years ago too?

/sarcasm

Well .. what would you give for a flying car ?

[Tapewolf]

Wrong month.  Please don't do that again.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Imagine how evolution would have gone, if one of the early organisms had been self supportive, needing only water and sunlight ?

You mean, like, the early organisms that use chlorophyll? algae and the like?