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09-19-2005, 02:30 AM
Do you think hybrid creatures like this will ever be possible (1/2 pig, 1/2 human)? How soon? Would it look like this?

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2913/hybridclone6dm.jpg
Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!
09-19-2005, 02:39 AM
tell me thats a weird sculpture.
KeysrSoze
09-19-2005, 02:56 AM
I'd say when computers get really fast at protein folding computations. Maybe 40 years ahead with some good quantum computer advances.
Rduke55
09-19-2005, 12:13 PM
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Do you think hybrid creatures like this will ever be possible (1/2 pig, 1/2 human)? How soon? Would it look like this?

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2913/hybridclone6dm.jpg

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We're not even close to this. I wouldn't worry about it.
Rduke55
09-19-2005, 12:15 PM
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I'd say when computers get really fast at protein folding computations. Maybe 40 years ahead with some good quantum computer advances.

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What does computers folding proteins have to do with this?
hurlyburly
09-19-2005, 01:24 PM
What a sad waste that would be. They should have made a "bacon-weeping willow". That would rock!
KeysrSoze
09-19-2005, 05:31 PM
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What does computers folding proteins have to do with this?

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Because to get a hybrid that complex (we aren't talking about splicing a glow worm gene into a tomato to get luminescent vegetables, we're talking about complete body modification) there's gonna be a lot of work needed done; knowing precisely what a gene sequence and its protein messengers will do, and how to build a body from scratch from the amino acid to the protein to the cell and up. You can't do this when it takes you a week on a modern day computer just to figure out one single protein's 3-D model.
ChipWrecked
09-20-2005, 04:56 AM
OMG, my home PC is busy folding proteins for the Zoo team in the Stanford project this minute. I wonder if I should smash the thing.