How long until this is real...

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How long until this is real...; How long will it take?
Topic Started: Feb 19 2010, 05:43 PM (1,706 Views)
sam999	Feb 19 2010, 05:43 PM Post #1
Adult Posts: 886 Group: Members Member #212 Joined: Sep 6, 2009	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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lamna	Feb 21 2010, 03:06 PM Post #16
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	All crocodiles start out smaller than kittens, you should not have a problem making a tiny one. I think what is going to hold this back is society, not science. Obviously nobody is going to want pets that are treated like toys, but there will be lots of opposition to regular GM pets. Still as mentioned with the glowing fish, they are already here. I imagine extended lifespans will be the first thing to come that's really popular. It's not going to seem that bad to people on the fence.
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sam999	Feb 21 2010, 08:22 PM Post #17
Adult Posts: 886 Group: Members Member #212 Joined: Sep 6, 2009	Kingpin Feb 21 2010, 10:15 AM 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. Something like the spore creatures creator where you once finished hit "buy" and it sends an egg for the creature to your home? That could be a looonnngg wait for such tech to be made.
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lamna	Feb 24 2010, 11:01 AM Post #18
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	It would be interesting, but that's something for the great grandchildren.
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T.Neo	Feb 24 2010, 01:14 PM Post #19
Translunar injection: TLI Posts: 6,154 Group: Members Member #179 Joined: Jun 7, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	Extended lifespans... I don't think that would be controversial at all. Although we could also improve vetinary science that much. A real-life creature creator would be awesome. But there better be things in place to prevent kids from creating organisms a la Aliens and getting their parents eaten.
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Carlos	Feb 24 2010, 02:21 PM Post #20
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	I personaly think that GM could have evolved a lot more quickly should this stupid crisis and the insane conservative christians wouldn't howl shit. In fact, if the moral guardians prove to not be an annoiance, I suppose that 10 years will be enough for genetic engineering to produce great fruits. Recreating dinosaurs seems already very possible, simply activating old genes and rearranging the avian anatomy to the original dinosaurian form; people could already attempt nowadays to recreate proto-whales, the main reason for not doing so is because many people worship blindly cetaceans and because they have a slow reproductive rate (something that, again, can already be dealt with). 10 years from now, genetic engineering could presumably be advanced to do more than just activating old genes, and once we discover the function of every single gene all hell shall break loose. I think that actually creating things from scratch would take still a long time though, since even after we discover ways of modifying an already established design we still would require to design an entire anatomy, something that its a lot harder than designing creatures on Spore
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sam999	Feb 24 2010, 02:46 PM Post #21
Adult Posts: 886 Group: Members Member #212 Joined: Sep 6, 2009	T.Neo Feb 24 2010, 01:14 PM But there better be things in place to prevent kids from creating organisms a la Aliens and getting their parents eaten. That might happen anyway a few times before such stuff becomes comanplace. Might be kinda hard to hunt down all the alians, sprigers lovecraften monsters left over after some kid sees a horror movie and starts playing around with their new toy...
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Terrence of Chance	Feb 28 2010, 05:35 PM Post #22
Infant Posts: 85 Group: Members Member #151 Joined: Mar 13, 2009 Favorite Quote: We'll cross that bridge once we burn it.	GM could also be used to lower the lethality of certain animals. Everybody thinks that Lionfish are beautiful, but not only is the cost of keeping a saltwater aquarium high, but you also have the poison spines to worry about. With GM, captive-bred Lionfish could become safe. Same goes for creatures like venomous snakes, such as cobras and vipers. Both are beautiful, but quite risky to handle.



lamna	Feb 28 2010, 05:52 PM Post #23
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	It's not Christians Johnfaa, it's more the new-age movement combined with our culture of mistrusting science, which was not really around in the rather conservative 50's.
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Carlos	Feb 28 2010, 06:49 PM Post #24
Adveho in me Lucifero Posts: 11,702 Group: Members Member #5 Joined: May 31, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: Portugayse Favorite Quote: Blame is the playing of children and is given to many like a gift that cannot be returned. Acceptance is the tool of the mature that is rarely loaned out.	I know, though in modern days its conservative religious groups that oppose scientific development the most
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lamna	Feb 28 2010, 07:24 PM Post #25
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	I'd say it's probably about equal. Hippy seems like a bad term for the group of people I'm talking about but it fits better than "environmentalist" or new ages. More people listen to hippies when they bitch about vaccines, atomic power, space exploration, genetic technology, pesticides, fertilizers etc. Sure the people you are talking about shout a lot but they are less effective.
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colddigger	Feb 28 2010, 10:03 PM Post #26
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lamna	Mar 1 2010, 03:44 AM Post #27
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	Oh no, they have very specific bans in mind.
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janlor	Apr 26 2010, 05:32 PM Post #28
Adolescent Posts: 347 Group: Members Member #290 Joined: Mar 26, 2010 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Xenobiology Nationality: polish	so reading this topic i finaly have idea from were the chupacapra and pomórnik came from, imagine that in the same time that things will be the humans will invent a time machine,
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Kamidio	Apr 26 2010, 06:14 PM Post #29
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janlor	Apr 26 2010, 06:21 PM Post #30
Adolescent Posts: 347 Group: Members Member #290 Joined: Mar 26, 2010 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Xenobiology Nationality: polish	yeas i hear about it, but did we in past sayed that the humans newer land on the moon ?
	my projects: Romeo 5 http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3108148/1/ 2 creatures presented! alien-like earth http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3223527/1/ The New Humans http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/3253024/1/ Feliearth Feliearth Few jokes: addition to fashion: fasism why two Stiupid SNAIADIAN CHILDS WAS KISSING Because they observed they pet kahydrons and wants to have baby


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