Not likely. However I wouldn’t be too surprised if it turns out that lab rats took one of the carcases home for a little spider-goat barbeque.
Well, until their ears fall off and they go kidnap Geena Davis, that is.
So, now I’m having mental images of people blowing the heads off of zombie spider-goats. That ought to make for some fun dreams tonight.
Just wanted to point out the misattribution here - it was actually MGibson who said that.
Well, if you are christian, you should realize that God gave mankind dominion over the earth and over the lesser beasts right?
And if not, well, the strongest make the moral code, and our history shows us that we “think” we have dominion over all the ‘lesser’ beasts.
I’m not worried about spider-goats. We can just engineer a predator like lizard-leopards.
WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE???
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Ok, it’s still a weird idea that we humans can play God so easily. And I agree with Dizzy Fingers about having a great responsibility in the things we try to do. It can get out of hand and backfire so we must proceed with caution and prudence.
Goat fibers for body armor… weird but useful perhaps. Or just weird.
That article is from the town I’m in right now.
I thought it was disturbing, but hey, its better than what was in the shut down air force base before that. . . A crapload of nukes.
I’m opposed to this kind of genetic engineering–if you’ve got an animal you have to euthanize more than once to get the job done, you’ve gone too far.
Hey, I got a crazy idea…
Instead of making transgenic goats from whose milk we can extract synthetic spider silk with which to make body armor, why don’t we just, you know,…NOT SHOOT EACH OTHER?!?!
I just hope they euthanized them with a 1920’s-style death ray.
YEAH! And if anyone violates that rule, we shoot them!
For Tars and whoever else hasn’t bothered to look it up before waxing sarcastic:
sentient, adj.
Having sense perception; conscious. Experiencing sensation or feeling.
[Latin sentiens, sentient- present participle of sentire, to feel. See sent- in Indo-European Roots.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
sentient
\Sen"ti*ent, a. [L. sentiens, -entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See Sense.] Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.
Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
[hijack]You can get rid of those skunks by eating Yoplait yogurt, and not crushing the containers before throwing them away. The skunks stick their head into the narrow necked container to lick out the remaining yogurt, and can’t get the container off.
Note that this results in a horrible starving death for the skunks – not the quick death of being fanged by spider goats. But it is probably cheaper, and you get to eat yogurt.[/hijack]