See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba_(rabbit)) and here (http://www.stretcher.org/archives/reviews/kac/bunny.jpg). Alba is a bunny rabbit scientists genetically toyed with to make it glow in the dark.
What scientists can do these days is pretty amazing. They're actually capable of creating things such as dinosaurs now by toying with birds early in their development (most scientists today accept the theory that birds are dinosaurs, and all livig bird species are classifie as dinosaurs). I wouldn't be suprised if they were able to clone humans by the end of this century.
OR it's a Photoshop lie.
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"Birds as dinosaurs" you say?
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Birds EVOLVED from dinosaurs, they are NOT dinosaurs, not even classified as such in ANY way.
Have you actually studied ANY biology whocares? Because if you actually studied Biology it'd be pretty easy to see that Birds are NOT classified scientifically as Dinosaurs.
Oy...
Not in a Linnaean sense, but cladistically they are in fact classified as dinosaurs, JQ.
So, yeah...
Edit: There's a handy cladogram of Maniraptora here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniraptora), with Avialae leading to the birds. And, since you are always within the clade of your ancestors, Aves is classified within Maniraptora, which is classified within Dinosauria.
lol science talk
Quote from: Commodore Muldoon on September 07, 2008, 05:22:46 PM
Not in a Linnaean sense, but cladistically they are in fact classified as dinosaurs, JQ.
So, yeah...
SCIENCE BURN
yyyeaaahhhhhh, JQ, they
are classified as dinos, dude.
Yes well, I'm not the expert on Biology here...
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That falls to COMMODORE.
Umm...
Yes well, Linnaean sense still counts.
>_>
<_<
even better are green and purple polar bears.
(http://pics.livejournal.com/zendagi/pic/00008p8k/s320x320) (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkhNQ9YuryhMDx7DyF9xE_G9J2agD931R8PO0)
(http://www.nwbotanicals.org/mediawatch/purplebear_files/argentina_bear2.jpg) (http://www.nwbotanicals.org/mediawatch/purplebear.htm)
woot! I was right when JQ was wrong for the FIRST TIME! A new record! :P
Fiskers, you win the topic for that post. :P
So, who wouldn't be suprised if scientists were able to clone humans and create dinosaurs by the end of the century?
I would be quite surprised, honestly.
But... Who would they clone?
...and what are they gonna do with the dinosaurs, and where would they put them?
I'm pretty sure we already have the technology to clone humans. We just don't do so because of moral and ethical reasons.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, though.
Quote from: CacturneRules on September 07, 2008, 05:57:47 PM
...and what are they gonna do with the dinosaurs, and where would they put them?
Well, there's this island off of Costa Rica...
Quote from: Commodore Muldoon on September 07, 2008, 05:58:34 PM
I'm pretty sure we already have the technology to clone humans. We just don't do so because of moral and ethical reasons.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, though.
No no, that's what I was getting at as well. They wouldn't be the clones as we know them, though. They would be babies that would eventually grow up to look like the original copy.
I imagine it's quite easy to clone, to be honest.
Quote from: Commodore Muldoon on September 07, 2008, 05:58:34 PMQuote from: CacturneRules on September 07, 2008, 05:57:47 PM
...and what are they gonna do with the dinosaurs, and where would they put them?
Well, there's this island off of Costa Rica...
I know someone who went to that island. Said it was a terrible place to raise dinosaurs. He would recommend Montanna.
Seriously, though, if you were hoping someone would get the reference, I got it.
I'd be suprised if anyone didn't get the reference. It is only one of the most famous movies ever made.
MOD EDIT: Fixed for spoilers <3
Sorry about the spoiler... I'll try not doing it again... :(
I didn't mention the book/movie for a reason. ::)