Bio-engineered monsters? (Resident Evil way)

Yikes Kharn thats disgusting! Great addittion to the topic though.

Goes to show you what Ashmo was saying is true. When mutations do lead to a dramatic change its often so random that it doesnt "fit" with the way an animal has to live and thus often leads to death at birth.

A single eye though...thats rare and especially that it was located in such a place that it appears to make up for both eyes. With one eye youd just expect the other eye to be nonexistant, but in this case it was positioned in the middle like a cyclops.

Yikes,
The Vault Dweller
 
The_Vault_Dweller said:
Yikes Kharn thats disgusting! Great addittion to the topic though.

Goes to show you what Ashmo was saying is true. When mutations do lead to a dramatic change its often so random that it doesnt "fit" with the way an animal has to live and thus often leads to death at birth.

A single eye though...thats rare and especially that it was located in such a place that it appears to make up for both eyes. With one eye youd just expect the other eye to be nonexistant, but in this case it was positioned in the middle like a cyclops.

Yikes,
The Vault Dweller

Yes, it is, in fact, one of the cutest things ever
 
Ok. So all mutations usually die a horrible death with gurgling sounds. Point taken.

We still do have genetically altered food. What if we change a flesh eating veggie into a super-flesh-eating veggie. That spit spikes.

I know monsters was a bit far fetched, but I didn't mean your average man-killing-monster. Hell as far as I am concerned an enhanced Ladybird is a monster to certain animals and beings.

monster |?m?nst?r| noun
an imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening.

? an inhumanly cruel or wicked person : he was an unfeeling, treacherous monster.
? often humorous a person, typically a child, who is rude or badly behaved : Christopher is only a year old, but already he is a little monster.
? a thing or animal that is excessively or dauntingly large : this is a monster of a book, almost 500 pages.
? a congenitally malformed or mutant animal or plant.


Hmm..all these point to Ashmo...oh bugger.
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Sheesh. I should have stuck with "vocabulary". At least I can say that I was multitasking at the time I wrote that post.

frissy said:
Hmm..all these point to Ashmo...oh bugger.

O RLY?

monster |?mänst?r| noun
an imaginary creature that is typically large, ugly, and frightening.

I'm not imaginary. Unless the lot of you is just plain nuts and I'm part of your disorder.

...

Okay, point taken.

• an inhumanly cruel or wicked person : he was an unfeeling, treacherous monster.

Okay, okay...

• often humorous a person, typically a child, who is rude or badly behaved : Christopher is only a year old, but already he is a little monster.

I'm not rude, you asshole.

• a thing or animal that is excessively or dauntingly large : this is a monster of a book, almost 500 pages.

Hm... I wasn't aware this was another post about penis sizes.

• a congenitally malformed or mutant animal or plant.

I'm not a plant.

I guess one could call me mutant, though.

But hey, at least I'm fertile.
 
so....Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs

This article was ironically written by Chris HOGg

They are the only ones that are green from the inside out. Even their heart and internal organs are green, they say.

The researchers say they hope the new, green pigs will mate with ordinary female pigs to create a new generation...

Can't wait to have some green bacon.
 
Egads! What if those pigs get free?! Soon they'll have reproduced with the wild pigs til the whole world is running free with glow-in-the-dark pork...nothing will stop them!

Not that thats any danger. I mean it would only make them easier to shoot right? Also maybe to eat in the dark.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
People are only concerned with that kind of stuff because they can't imagine eating green pork.
 
mutation can never be anything like your nice pic. It simply won't survive because DNA -->is used to make --> proteins which plays many important roles in any organism. Its essential for a cell to live

However you can have organism undergoing mutation and still survive, in fact it occurs in all organisms and is happening all the time is all cells. (but many cells has correction mechanisms, which i won't go talk about)
mutation is a random process when DNA, RNA or protein are assembled in cells.
So mutation in real life cannot create a 3 handed man. because there won't be correct genes that would allow such beast to be created
(for example)
its more like transferring genes from fish to plants so that crops grow better in colder temperatures.
Or in nature viruses/ bacteria becoming resistant to certain drugs is also mutation. which is more destructive than a nuclear bomb because if viruses/ bacteria become resistant to drugs it can eliminate the human population out...

Now mutation is not always bad, in fact some mutations might benefit the organism eg: mutation that made a tiger grow bigger muscles or some thing like that.
 
S said:
Now mutation is not always bad, in fact some mutations might benefit the organism eg: mutation that made a tiger grow bigger muscles or some thing like that.

What if you make a mutation that makes a frog grow bigger muscles ? Then you add another...make it grow longer nails (acutally I don't think they have nails, but anyway) etc. Not doing it all at once, but it small steps.

First the pig glows green, then it becomes a walking nuclear reactor.
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frissy said:
First the pig glows green, then it becomes a walking nuclear reactor.
I can see it now:

Glowing green pigs snuffling around in the undergrowth for stray Uranium and Plutonium Isotopes, or any other fissionable morsels it can garner, when some bastard in overalls and an orange hardhat comes along with nipple clamps and an extension cord to the national grid.
 
frissy said:
S said:
Now mutation is not always bad, in fact some mutations might benefit the organism eg: mutation that made a tiger grow bigger muscles or some thing like that.

What if you make a mutation that makes a frog grow bigger muscles ? Then you add another...make it grow longer nails (actually I don't think they have nails, but anyway) etc. Not doing it all at once, but it small steps.

First the pig glows green, then it becomes a walking nuclear reactor.

well... can't say its impossible, but a if adding new genes to a frog's DNA doesn't kill it it might work. It still won't be deadly though because the animal instincts are still at work, so they won't start to be a predatory animal. (chances are that they die very quickly)

but in order to make a mutant frog the following must be done:
1. isolate genes that make nails grow faster and longer (i doubt it can be found)
2. implant the DNA into a zygote cell
3. grow the frog. ( the nails would probably be 10 X bigger than the frog before it even leans how to jump)
4. assuming it survived you'll have a mutant frog
 
S said:
1. isolate genes that make nails grow faster and longer (i doubt it can be found)

Well that's just mapping the genes. I mean that's already in the works (a different matter if they have any reason to map the frog genes).

If my memory serves me right they already mapped the genes of the banana fly (could be fruit fly, not sure which one it is). Mapping a mammal or a reptile would still be a HUGE task, but possible even by todays knowledge (ok it might take forever, but still).
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frissy said:
On the banana fly (or fruit fly...not sure) they know WHERE they are.
And how they work :?:, how to start certain process, as growing a nail, growing a brain, etc., it's just a matter of how, not if, it can be done. Cause this info is all in the genes :!:
 
Aren't the Japanese still working on that project in the search for the gene that controls your aging. Wouldn't mind being immortal and super strong.
 
No, the Japanese are either busy buying schoolgirl underwear from distributor machines or secretly building a death ray under an IT school in a non-determined East European country.
 
Ashmo said:
TheWesDude said:
Ashomo:

Sea Bed is the term you were trying to use.

:: throws a dictionary in your general direction ::

Thanks for pointing that out. My word pool has just been doubled in size and produced a tsunami large enough to swallow a third world nation.

Was this little outburst caused by a slump (technical term for submarine landslide which can be the cause of tsunamis) in your self-esteem.

And TheWesDude, seabed is one word. Why do all you Europeans have such good English by the way?

I'm tired, so I'll try to address the science later.
 
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