Genetic engineering and crossing species

#1 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?

Piz0wn0reD!!!!!! · #2 09-19-2005, 02:39 AM

tell me thats a weird sculpture.

KeysrSoze · #3 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 · #4 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?

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We're not even close to this. I wouldn't worry about it.

Rduke55 · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 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 · #8 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.