UM-Bot Posted October 27, 2008 #1 Share Posted October 27, 2008 For brightness, glowworms got nothing on Mr Green Genes. And for fright factor, neither do black cats. The 6-month-old feline may look like a standard-issue orange tabby in the comfort of daylight, but he turns a ghoulish shade of fluorescent green under the shroud of darkness! But there’s no need to get spooked; Mr Green Genes is not a ghastly creation out of a Halloween horror story. View: Full Article | Source: MSNBC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairybry Posted October 27, 2008 #2 Share Posted October 27, 2008 i need one of these-my black cat magic sleeps in the middle of the stairs,deadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted October 27, 2008 #3 Share Posted October 27, 2008 i need one of these-my black cat magic sleeps in the middle of the stairs,deadly. Cats like to be high where they can see all around them. Maybe he would like a climbing tree. Mr Green Genes looks like he likes all the attention his is getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pelican_Eel Posted October 27, 2008 #4 Share Posted October 27, 2008 But there’s no need to get spooked; (...)The glow-in-the-dark cat is the result of a genetic experiment gone right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OverSword Posted October 27, 2008 #5 Share Posted October 27, 2008 They say not to worry, but I always worry about genetic experimentation. If there was suddenly a group of elite wealthy genetically taylored humans how long before they decide that it would be intolerable to exist as stupid slow and weak as the rest of humanity and did us the favor of ending our intolerably short, unhealthy, narrow minded lives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted October 27, 2008 #6 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Coooooooooooooool! Where can i get one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pauly Dangerously Posted October 27, 2008 #7 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Kool article, but... uh... why is it here? It is niether unexplained, nor a mystery... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exterminator Posted October 27, 2008 #8 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Anyone thought of glowing humans, eh? That would be more KOOOOOOOOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormcrow Posted October 27, 2008 #9 Share Posted October 27, 2008 (edited) Anyone thought of glowing humans, eh? That would be more KOOOOOOOOL And completely inhumane! No, let's not do it on ourselves, let's do it on poor creatures that are undoubtedly unequal in all ways, to justify our radical experiments. They don't have feelings, we do. Duh. Completely hellish. I hate people that are all, "Ooohh, let's do this because we can." Not, "Oh, let's not do this because it's wrong." What the frick, people. Come on. That's not just cruel, that's hypocritical. Edited October 27, 2008 by Ebonykrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaneSilvermoon Posted October 27, 2008 #10 Share Posted October 27, 2008 That would be a popular cat for Halloween, heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idontcare Posted October 27, 2008 #11 Share Posted October 27, 2008 (edited) There's no such thing as a genetic experiment gone right. The entire process is completely wrong. I understand that these methods could be used to prevent illnesses and hereditary disease, but what others should also be aware of is that preventing disease is not the only reason they do genetic experiments... have you heard of the "bully" whippet? It's a whippet (small racing dog) with TWO TIMES the normal muscle mass. Apparently, that is not the desired result. The result they wanted was a faster running dog. Why should we breed dogs to run faster? It is the dog with the spirit to win the race that shall be the ultimate victor. Even if a dog is breeded to be more "efficient", it still will not defeat the dog with the WILL to win. This is Wendy, the "bully" whippet. Apparently she was born this way. But this is the exact result of what breeders have been accidently doing while trying to breed faster whippets by genetic altering. What's next? Humans with wings? Btw, Maximum Ride is an awesome book about just that. These otherwise fictional stories such as Resident Evil and Maximum Ride are becoming a more possible reality with every successful, mad science creation. :angry2: Edited October 27, 2008 by Grace Wayman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluedragon11200 Posted October 27, 2008 #12 Share Posted October 27, 2008 (edited) And completely inhumane! No, let's not do it on ourselves, let's do it on poor creatures that are undoubtedly unequal in all ways, to justify our radical experiments. They don't have feelings, we do. Duh. Completely hellish. I hate people that are all, "Ooohh, let's do this because we can." Not, "Oh, let's not do this because it's wrong." What the frick, people. Come on. That's not just cruel, that's hypocritical. For me its ok for some types of genetic modification only if they don't hurt or make it painful for the cat to live. also its living conditions would have to be really great to make up for the experiment. a experiment like this should be only done once but if it has to be repeated it should be on the bare minimum so if it does makes it suffer the less that suffer the better. edit= if the experiments purpose is to advance something bad / evil should not be done at all like weapon experiments edit2= also to the above about the dogs and races i think that dogs like that shouldn't be allowed to race only natural dogs should, something that hurts the animal like that huge dog in your post is a obvious sign something is wrong. Edited October 27, 2008 by Bluedragon11200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
War Eagle Posted October 27, 2008 #13 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Well how bout that, a ***** that glows in the dark. off the op: ''...he was cloned at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans to aid endangered species...and down the line, humans as well.'' ya know, just in case we humans become endangered too. South Korean scientists have already claimed®© earlier this year that they had successfully cloned cats whose genes had been altered so that they ‘glow-in-the-dark’ under UV light, marking the first time that scientists have successfully altered the genetic code of cloned cats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syaoransbear Posted October 27, 2008 #14 Share Posted October 27, 2008 This is Wendy, the "bully" whippet. Apparently she was born this way. But this is the exact result of what breeders have been accidently doing while trying to breed faster whippets by genetic altering. What are you joking? Breeders aren't genetically altering anything. They aren't changing DNA. That was an accident and it's a gene that happened to become dominant. That's like saying an albino person was genetically altered; it's a naturally occurring gene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakotabre Posted October 27, 2008 #15 Share Posted October 27, 2008 They say that they have done these experiments to aid endangered animals- thats complete BS!! The cat does NOT glow in the dark, it ONLY glows under a black light, so it's not going to aid endangered animals at all. Animals don't see through uv black light filtered eyes, so they are not going to see this cat coming any sooner than they would see a normal cat!! So whats the real reason behind this experiment??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilDogPratt Posted October 27, 2008 #16 Share Posted October 27, 2008 what they mean is that the cloning was for endangered species the glowing was to see if they could add in different genes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
War Eagle Posted October 27, 2008 #17 Share Posted October 27, 2008 So whats the real reason behind this experiment??? Bored scientists with nothing better to do with government funded tax-payer $$$ & their spare time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted October 27, 2008 #18 Share Posted October 27, 2008 There's no such thing as a genetic experiment gone right. The entire process is completely wrong. I understand that these methods could be used to prevent illnesses and hereditary disease, but what others should also be aware of is that preventing disease is not the only reason they do genetic experiments... have you heard of the "bully" whippet? It's a whippet (small racing dog) with TWO TIMES the normal muscle mass. Apparently, that is not the desired result. The result they wanted was a faster running dog. Why should we breed dogs to run faster? It is the dog with the spirit to win the race that shall be the ultimate victor. Even if a dog is breeded to be more "efficient", it still will not defeat the dog with the WILL to win. This is Wendy, the "bully" whippet. Apparently she was born this way. But this is the exact result of what breeders have been accidently doing while trying to breed faster whippets by genetic altering. What's next? Humans with wings? Btw, Maximum Ride is an awesome book about just that. These otherwise fictional stories such as Resident Evil and Maximum Ride are becoming a more possible reality with every successful, mad science creation. :angry2: What are you joking? Breeders aren't genetically altering anything. They aren't changing DNA. That was an accident and it's a gene that happened to become dominant. That's like saying an albino person was genetically altered; it's a naturally occurring gene. Dog breeding is all about changing the DNA of dogs. DNA is what governs their size, color, shape, etc. Dogs started it out as wolves and we changed their DNA by breeding to make them into the thousands of different kinds of dogs. Not all them faired very well under our breeding like English Bull Dogs and such. It is cruel to breed a dog that can't breath, or give birth to its own pups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobolds Posted October 28, 2008 #19 Share Posted October 28, 2008 to me this is sick and cruel no matter for what excuse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alister Posted October 28, 2008 #20 Share Posted October 28, 2008 WELL, as long as it doesn't hurt this little guy, every thing's OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The One Who Is Posted October 28, 2008 #21 Share Posted October 28, 2008 They say that they have done these experiments to aid endangered animals- thats complete BS!! The cat does NOT glow in the dark, it ONLY glows under a black light, so it's not going to aid endangered animals at all. Animals don't see through uv black light filtered eyes, so they are not going to see this cat coming any sooner than they would see a normal cat!! So whats the real reason behind this experiment??? The real reason behind this experiment is to test whether or not this specific type of genetic modification would hold and work as expected. It's common to insert genes for fluorescence, because it's easy to verify whether they're working. Once we get all this down pat, who knows? The purpose of this specific experiment had nothing to do with ensuring the survival of endangered species. It's just another stepping stone into the unknown. Nothing more, nothing less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codehook Posted October 28, 2008 #22 Share Posted October 28, 2008 This is old news, I heard about this months and months ago! Either this is a new cat they've genetically engineered, or this article is very old and it's managed to creep back up again. Anyhow...Chinese scientists also managed to genetically engineer a cat that nobody is allergic to. Not many people realise that cat allergies are actually due to cat's spit, which contains something that gets into the air and causes an allergic reaction in a lot of people. And there's nothing wrong with this experiment in my eyes, if they're finding out more about genes and how to manipulate them for the better in the long run, then stop being all moody and trying to be righteous about not harming animals. Whilst some animals are harmed through such experiments, the majority are not and it's helping mankind in any case. Put it this way...if the only way to save mankind was to experiment on animals, would you still be against it? And are you the same people who go to watch a dolphin show and think the dolphins are all happy and smiling and enjoying performing? If so, you live in a fantasy land where you think you're "doing the right thing" when in actual fact you're a pain in the **** for people who actually want to help this world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaneSilvermoon Posted October 28, 2008 #23 Share Posted October 28, 2008 (edited) Dog breeding is all about changing the DNA of dogs. DNA is what governs their size, color, shape, etc. Dogs started it out as wolves and we changed their DNA by breeding to make them into the thousands of different kinds of dogs. Not all them faired very well under our breeding like English Bull Dogs and such. It is cruel to breed a dog that can't breath, or give birth to its own pups. Bingo. Many of our "breeds" were created by thousands of years of human selective breeding. Charles Darwin called it Unconscious Selection. If humans create the environment a domestic animal lives in. Our desires for that animal become the environment that it adapts to. Edited October 28, 2008 by BaneSilvermoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
War Eagle Posted October 28, 2008 #24 Share Posted October 28, 2008 ''...he was cloned at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans to aid endangered species...and down the line, humans as well.'' It reoccurred to me while i was having a moment. It's not so crazy after all... Think of the some of the great possibilities; Just hanging about with family & friends round christmas time telling stories singing carols or just sitting there all glowing in the dark next to the christmas tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Demon Posted October 28, 2008 #25 Share Posted October 28, 2008 They say that they have done these experiments to aid endangered animals- thats complete BS!! The cat does NOT glow in the dark, it ONLY glows under a black light, so it's not going to aid endangered animals at all. Animals don't see through uv black light filtered eyes, so they are not going to see this cat coming any sooner than they would see a normal cat!! So whats the real reason behind this experiment??? Oh wow, you really need this spelled out don't you. The point was not to make a cat that glows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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