KHinfcube22 Posted April 19, 2003 Posted April 19, 2003 Is it possible to take DNA from a pirana, and insert parts of its features and attitude genes into a rabbit? it would make the pefect bioweapon! cute, fluffy, travels in groups, and bites your head off! Monty Python all over again!
Skye Posted April 19, 2003 Posted April 19, 2003 A gene can be defined as the DNA that codes for a protein. DNA is a seemingly universal language, so splicing a gene into different organisms genome will result in that gene coding for the same protein as it did in the original. But what that protein does in the new organism isn't neccessarily the same as what it did in the original, since the protein will be interacting with very different proteins that are the product of the new organisms genome. The differences in the rabbit and piranha genomes relating to behaviour would probably be so great as to render the piranhas genes nonsensical, or for them to have very different effects.
fafalone Posted April 24, 2003 Posted April 24, 2003 That's not what the company the announced it was making completely new organisms with this method thinks....
Radical Edward Posted April 24, 2003 Posted April 24, 2003 Originally posted by fafalone That's not what the company the announced it was making completely new organisms with this method thinks.... I've not heard of this.... do you have any links or anything?
JaKiri Posted April 24, 2003 Posted April 24, 2003 I'd say that creatures that can't possibly exist ('impossible') aren't going to exist.
KHinfcube22 Posted April 26, 2003 Author Posted April 26, 2003 If something has never happened, it is impossible to say it never will.
Sayonara Posted April 26, 2003 Posted April 26, 2003 Originally posted by KHinfcube22 If something has never happened, it is impossible to say it never will. Not so. "Badgers on stilts will never walk out of my butt." There we go, proof.
KHinfcube22 Posted April 29, 2003 Author Posted April 29, 2003 Not so. "Badgers on stilts will never walk out of my butt." There we go, proof. ---------------- Actualy you have no proof they never will. suppose an alien being was to transplant a virus into you, then they might,-by the way, how do you do the quoteing thing, I can't figure it out.
JaKiri Posted April 29, 2003 Posted April 29, 2003 Originally posted by KHinfcube22 If something has never happened, it is impossible to say it never will. 'Impossible creatures' are impossible by definition, surely?
Sayonara Posted April 29, 2003 Posted April 29, 2003 Originally posted by KHinfcube22 Not so. "Badgers on stilts will never walk out of my butt." There we go, proof. ---------------- Actualy you have no proof they never will. suppose an alien being was to transplant a virus into you, then they might,-by the way, how do you do the quoteing thing, I can't figure it out. I can prove that my butt is not capacious enough to accomodate any number of badgers and stilts, and I can prove that badgers have neither the dexterity, balance, co-ordination or morphology required to use stilts. Therefore I can safely stop there. Just like I can be no less than 100% certain that a giant banana will not be responsible for dooming the galaxy, houses will never live inside people, and the ground will always be beneath the sky. To quote, click the 'quote' button. Or use the [ quote] tag.
Radical Edward Posted April 29, 2003 Posted April 29, 2003 Originally posted by KHinfcube22 If something has never happened, it is impossible to say it never will. however something that has never happened is not nescessarily impossible. impossible means "not possible" as in, can't and won't happen.
RED FIRE COW Posted April 30, 2003 Posted April 30, 2003 Im gonna make up a theory righ now ok. "just the fact that you were able to imagine it makes it possible for it to occur" how about that!
Sayonara Posted April 30, 2003 Posted April 30, 2003 Originally posted by RED FIRE COW Im gonna make up a theory righ now ok. "just the fact that you were able to imagine it makes it possible for it to occur" how about that! Can only be sustained if the probability of all events occurring AND failing to occur is 100%, which in turn can only be sustained where at least one infinite operational environment exists - whether this is via multiverses, alternate timelines, parallel universes, infinite spacetime... take your pick. If you look above you'll see that I did come up with some imaginings. According to your post, they must be manifest at some point in space or time. But it doesn't explain why. Therefore it's more of a statement than a theory.
JaKiri Posted April 30, 2003 Posted April 30, 2003 Originally posted by Sayonara³ a giant banana will not be responsible for dooming the galaxy That's what you say NOW! BWHAHAHAHHAHAhAHHAHA
KHinfcube22 Posted May 8, 2003 Author Posted May 8, 2003 Originally posted by RED FIRE COW Im gonna make up a theory righ now ok. "just the fact that you were able to imagine it makes it possible for it to occur" how about that! Heres the theory I'll make up, Every person is an exception to one definite rule. The rule I'm an exception for is "Nobody is perfect!"
Radical Edward Posted May 8, 2003 Posted May 8, 2003 Originally posted by KHinfcube22 "Nobody is perfect!" interesting this, as one needs to define perfect. You are indeed perfect... at being you. no-one else could do it better. This is why I hate it when people say God is Perfect... I am a more perfect version of me than God could ever be.
KHinfcube22 Posted May 9, 2003 Author Posted May 9, 2003 Originally posted by Radical Edward interesting this, as one needs to define perfect. You are indeed perfect... at being you. no-one else could do it better. This is why I hate it when people say God is Perfect... I am a more perfect version of me than God could ever be. what about your clone?
JaKiri Posted May 9, 2003 Posted May 9, 2003 Originally posted by KHinfcube22 what about your clone? Clones may have the same DNA, but they aren't identical. For one thing, DNA doesn't specify the precise way in which blood vessels are arranged. That's different even for identical twins (identical twins have the same DNA).
KHinfcube22 Posted May 9, 2003 Author Posted May 9, 2003 Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri Clones may have the same DNA, but they aren't identical. For one thing, DNA doesn't specify the precise way in which blood vessels are arranged. That's different even for identical twins (identical twins have the same DNA). What about a replicant created by alien tech. and IS and exact copy of oneslef?
JaKiri Posted May 10, 2003 Posted May 10, 2003 Originally posted by KHinfcube22 What about a replicant created by alien tech. and IS and exact copy of oneslef? 'What about a perfect copy? Would that be a perfect copy?' Bit of a truism there.
KHinfcube22 Posted May 10, 2003 Author Posted May 10, 2003 Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri 'What about a perfect copy? Would that be a perfect copy?' Depends on the creater.
JaKiri Posted May 10, 2003 Posted May 10, 2003 Originally posted by KHinfcube22 Depends on the creater. Explain to me please how a 'perfect copy' has the capability to not be a 'perfect copy'?
KHinfcube22 Posted May 10, 2003 Author Posted May 10, 2003 Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri Explain to me please how a 'perfect copy' has the capability to not be a 'perfect copy'? To explain it would be to use BIG words that you won't know and sciences WAY above your level of comprehension.
JaKiri Posted May 10, 2003 Posted May 10, 2003 Originally posted by KHinfcube22 To explain it would be to use BIG words that you won't know and sciences WAY above your level of comprehension. That would be quite impressive, as I have the largest vocabulary of people I know, a rather fine grasp of mathematics and an intuitive understanding of most sciences. Although this isn't a question of science, it's a question of linguistics and formal logic. A =/= A is what you're essentially saying.
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