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To: null and void

Yeah, I know they’re controversial.

Also I realize that the Glofish I linked to aren’t really bioluminescent but instead are flourescent. But I know that there are actual bio-engineered bioluminescent zebra fish out there too, that do glow in the dark.

You do have to wonder what that does to them psychologically (in a base instinct sort of way). A fish that is naturally programmed to use darkness as a cover is now born a living flashlight. Wonder what mental processes it has to go through to adjust, or whether it’s just constantly freaked out by its own light.


8 posted on 10/08/2008 7:23:38 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: RepublitarianRoger2

For some reason that reminds me of a Bill Cosby routine about kids complaining that their brother is touching them.

He said that if this was happening and the kid was an only child, it was time to take ‘em back...


11 posted on 10/08/2008 7:28:30 PM PDT by null and void (Surely we can print money faster than they can - this is AMERICA!)
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To: RepublitarianRoger2
...it’s just constantly freaked out by its own light.

Or afraid of its own shadow...

12 posted on 10/08/2008 7:30:09 PM PDT by null and void (Surely we can print money faster than they can - this is AMERICA!)
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