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| Topic Started: Feb 19 2010, 05:43 PM (1,703 Views) | |
| sam999 | Feb 19 2010, 05:43 PM Post #1 |
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I know this site is a prank but with how GM tech keeps comeing along how long do you think it will be until creatures like genpets realy exist? Could they get lose and breed in the wild? What kinds of effects would the whole thing have. |
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| T.Neo | Feb 19 2010, 06:54 PM Post #2 |
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Genpets... ROFL. Seriously? No. There would be HUGE outcry to animals (GM or not) being sold in stores like toys. Otherwise, as long as it isn't anything stupid like grafting giraffe necks onto goldfish, GM pets should not be a problem. In fact, most pets today are GM. As for breeding in the wild, see above. Feral cats and dogs exist and are common. Edited by T.Neo, Feb 19 2010, 06:54 PM.
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| TheCoon | Feb 19 2010, 10:16 PM Post #3 |
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I've got a pair of Glowfish, the first GM pet. GM is still young. I say give it at least 10 to 20 years (but we might as well die in 2012) and creatures made from scratch with GM will be a reality |
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| Empyreon | Feb 19 2010, 10:51 PM Post #4 |
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My fifth grade teacher had a pair of see-through frogs. |
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| Kingpin | Feb 19 2010, 11:48 PM Post #5 |
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It's been estimated (By who, I don't know) that GM pets would possibly include miniture versions of animals, such as an elephant or a lion, but 12 inches tall (Anyone remember the elephant John Hammond owned in the Jurassic Park book?). I also read an article (again, no idea where I read it) that some company was trying to engineer a dog that would stay a puppy forever. That struck me as a little sick, because I love dogs. Edited by Kingpin, Feb 19 2010, 11:49 PM.
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| Toad of Spades | Feb 20 2010, 12:24 AM Post #6 |
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I would genetically modify a type a velvet worm to thrive in different levels of humidity and temperature. That way people won't worry about the humidity being too low when keeping them. I would still like them to be kept as exotic pets. It would be awful if people bought them and abandoned them. As pets it could work. People can tame centipedes, millipedes and a whole host of other arthropods as pets. I once held a tame scorpion at an exotic pet expo and it was very calm. If something like a scorpion can be tamed, then a velvet worm wouldn't be too much of a stretch. I think if a velvet worm is tweaked to be able to thrive in a temperate or desert environment it would make a pretty good pet if one is well prepared to take care of one. |
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| T.Neo | Feb 20 2010, 09:42 AM Post #7 |
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I honestly hope you are kidding.
Doesn't make sense to make something from scratch if you have a planet full of source code. Our knowledge of how to manipulate DNA, etc is still primitive. I'd give it slightly longer then that, maybe 50-100 years for a radically original genetically engineered organism. But that is perhaps more dependant on popular acceptance then technological capability. I mean, with all the nonsense going around that GM crops will dissolve your insides etc... |
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| TheCoon | Feb 20 2010, 11:53 AM Post #8 |
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Yes, I was oviously kidding about the 2012 thing. Technology's growing fast. Humans are already able to manipulate DNA in various species to tweak some thing (never heard of the Glowing Dogs?). I might give it 30 years. Tops. |
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| sam999 | Feb 20 2010, 12:18 PM Post #9 |
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Yes but many people like me would get one simply to pester the fools doing the outcry. It would most likely be a small nich to sell stuff in but the people in it are going to buy loads. |
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| Kingpin | Feb 21 2010, 10:15 AM Post #10 |
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I know I'd buy a GM animal, as long as I could afford it. You know what I forsee happening, is that people will be able to request what their pet looks like, be it a combination on animals or something else. |
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| Holben | Feb 21 2010, 12:35 PM Post #11 |
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You can choose what your pet looks like through selective breeding and commerce, but actually GMing animals is more likely to be postponed by ethics than technology. I mean, could people 5 years ago have imagined an iPhone? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Kamidio | Feb 21 2010, 01:31 PM Post #12 |
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I'd have a GMed salt water crocodile. It'd be much smaller, about the size of a kitten. |
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| Holben | Feb 21 2010, 01:46 PM Post #13 |
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What would you feed it? Its brain wouldn't work at that size either to any degree you'd expect from even a tortoise. Its muscles would have to be substituted, and its scutes removed or shrunk, so the glands' output would be reduced. |
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| T.Neo | Feb 21 2010, 01:49 PM Post #14 |
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Why wouldn't it's brain work? There are tiny creatures that happen to function just fine. It's about ratios, not absolute size. Same with muscle. Edited by T.Neo, Feb 21 2010, 01:50 PM.
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| Holben | Feb 21 2010, 02:02 PM Post #15 |
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It isn't that the brain wouldn't work, just that it would be slow and learn slowly. The neurons couldn't just be compressed down to a twelfth of their size. Muscle wouldn't matter so much. |
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