Scientists place 500-million-year-old gene in modern organism (Ruh-Roh!)

Phys.org ^ | 11 July 2012 | Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology

[dfwgator]

I had Industrial disease,

You got smoker's cough from smoking, Brewers Droop from drinking beer.

[Jack Hammer]

So we can now cross breed humans with Cro-Magnons.

Does this mean a vast improvement in the sport of football?

[Delta 21]

Since they are humans doing the designing, I really dont think you can rightly call it “intelligent”.

Sounds pretty stupid to me.

[Darksheare]

I’m filing it under “Stupid Human Tricks” and “What does this do?”

[Reeses]

“Do we want there to be life on Mars?”

The left would be vehemently against it. They'd want to preserve lifeless Mars "for the children"®.

[Iron Munro]

I can see by your post one thing is for sure.....

They are BIG! - Really BIG.

Whatever they are.

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks Red Badger. If I'm still wearing jeans 500 million years from now, somebody fossilize me. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"YIKES!"

It's a common reaction to seeing HT.

[bigheadfred]

If I'm still wearing jeans 500 million years from now

Was gonna give you some Neil Diamond...but...

This is all you get...

[Darksheare]

Frightens humans, pets, and interdimensional monstrosities.

[fanfan]

You said it, Darks!

Didn't you say it?!!!!!

[Noob1999]

..............No mask or gloves. It must be harmless.............

She’s just trolling to be sure that Laz sees her in her strret clothes.

[JRios1968]

What are they thinking?

"Have a problem with my research?"

[Shadowstrike]

Jesus wept.

Like we don’t have enough stuff out there that will kill already?

[Shadowstrike]

Jesus wept.

Like we don’t have enough stuff out there that will kill already?

[ApplegateRanch]

...as she rinses the stuff down the drain into the sewer lines................where it grows and mutates in this sudden new and rich environment, with no natural enemies to hamper its progress........and suddenly, people start disappearing in their own bathrooms while on the potty............the FBI is called in to investigate, but by that time entire towns start to de-populate...........small Georgia cities suddenly devoid of people....................

Sounds like the plot for The Sourdough That Ate San Francisco, except that involved a late night cleaning lady in an industrial bakery....

Too bad I never actually got around to writing it back around late 1968, when I thought it up; it may have triggered a sequence of events that would have prevented my disastrous first marriage in early 1969.

[airborne]

What could possibly go wrong?

[TheOldLady]

Meanwhile, all over England, people are laughing hysterically at the GIT institute.

[MrB]

I noticed the article said they were going to “observe evolution in action”...

So, they’re going to watch the bacteria become something other than bacteria?

[Darksheare]

But.. it’s not my fault!