Or: I, for one, welcome our new transgenic jellypork overlords: Others have bred partially fluorescent pigs before. But the researchers insist the three pigs they have produced are better. They are the only ones that are green from the inside out. Even their heart and internal organs are green, they say.
I do not like them, sam i am
it's as good a reason as any to become vegetarian...
that was the first thing I thought of too. it's crazy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/751069.stm
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/life/dna_garden/dna_5/dna_5_4.html
i don't really see any logic in that..
vegetarians eat plants.
plants are green.
now pigs can be green.
vegetarians can now eat bacon with impunity.
ah, i thought he was implying that green pigs were somehow a reason to stop eating meat.
Wow.
I can see why you're known for converting the vegetarian masses now. You are very convincing.
Let me guess.
That was sarcasm, right?
I tremble before your wit.
Criticizing sarcasm with sarcasm is for retards.
Perhaps one day you'll grow up to be as biting as jwz's little toe.
I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here. Are you a Big Man in the Internet?
It's okay, as I said below, I wasn't being sarcastic anyway, which he obviously missed.
Actually, I was being serious. I thought the logic was entertaining. What's it to you?
The thing that I keep wondering but no news report tells me is:
If these buggers are glowing all over, doesn't this imply that their eyes (retinas, rods, cones, etc) also have a glow? And doesn't this imapact their ability to see?
None of these critters actually emit light, they just fluoresce.
Back at the academy, they said it couldn't be done. I'll show them though. Them and their simpleminded conformity. They laughed at me back at the Academy too! Well, we'll just see who has the last laugh! WE'LL JUST SEE!!!
Teach me to base my curiosity solely on the local news reports. Next time I'll actually read too.
"These pigs glow in the dark!"
fluorescence is emitting light, I mean they aren't generating the light, but they are absorbing it and sending it back out.
Nope, the lenses seem to have also mutated to concentrate the light emitted by the retinas into LASERS!
Self-slicing ham, woo!
So THAT's where the jelly in those canned hams comes from.
I, for one, look forward to colour-coded pork in supermarkets.
Always interesting to see they're a step closer to harvesting human-compatible organs via genetic DNA-fondling.
Green pork = danger
If only they were black. They'd match your color scheme.
martian ham! pork from space!
(five points to anyone who gets that ref...)
http://www.fruvous.com/oldlyr1.html#greeneggs
google makes challenges like this useless.
cheater :P
i suppose that it is better to cheat than to pretend i got the reference
well.. what about "square pigs from mars" (space truckers)?
Bacon and pork chops for ravers.
finally... now I can eat bacon in the dark AND not be afraid!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3665851.stm
Maybe they could be configured to start glowing once exposed to H5N1...
One part of me is saying, "umm, could do with a better shade of green". Another part is grossing out.
Would this make tracking pork-eaters easier?
So the stuff that makes the pigs fluoresce green is called Green Fluorescent Protein, aka GFP. Despite sensationalist articles about glowing critters, it's actually an extremely common and useful research tool. For example, you can cause GFP to be expressed in a tissue specific manner so you can study the formation of that tissue, or you can "tag" a specific protein with it so you can track that protein throughout the cell.
I don't know why these guys wanted to make a GFP pig, though. That seems a little silly.
We soooooo need more green pigs in the world. Rumsfeld puking does not count.
Did anyone notice the name of the reporter on the article?