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Re: Genetic Engineering

Postby Nicholi » Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:00 am

Meliva wrote:although why would we make such a creature to begin with. making a super carnivore hunter is just asking for trouble. it would also serve no practical purpose.


Australian Dingo's were purpose bred to hunt rabbits which had infested the outback. The rabbits had eaten so much of the foliage that many of the indigenous species were dying out.
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Re: Genetic Engineering

Postby Grimrock Litless » Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:03 am

Another good thing is that, they could engineer a chicken to be big, fast meat growth, age faster, and need less food to grow and live, this can easily be the best thing to ever happen, curing starvation on countries, we could cure all disease, create the perfect human, and many more, we can even make dinosaurs.
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Re: Genetic Engineering

Postby Nicholi » Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:13 am

Guluere wrote:Another good thing is that, they could engineer a chicken to be big, fast meat growth, age faster, and need less food to grow and live, this can easily be the best thing to ever happen, curing starvation on countries, we could cure all disease, create the perfect human, and many more, we can even make dinosaurs.


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Re: Genetic Engineering

Postby Meliva » Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:22 am

Nicholi wrote:
Meliva wrote:although why would we make such a creature to begin with. making a super carnivore hunter is just asking for trouble. it would also serve no practical purpose.


Australian Dingo's were purpose bred to hunt rabbits which had infested the outback. The rabbits had eaten so much of the foliage that many of the indigenous species were dying out.


there is a difference between breeding an animal to be good as a hunting companion, and creating a super carnivore. take a dog for example, a lot of them are bred to be used for hunts, yet if said dog were to try to kill us, it would not be too tough for us to take out. now lets imagine we do what guluere mentioned, and bring back some dinos. can you imagine how hard it would be to kill a T-rex? a adult human could kill a dog with bare hands, they would get scratched and bit quite a lot, but I'm confident they would be fine after a trip to the hospital. now a T-rex? you would need some HEAVY fire power to take it down.
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Re: Genetic Engineering

Postby Grimrock Litless » Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:44 am

Meliva wrote:
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Meliva wrote:although why would we make such a creature to begin with. making a super carnivore hunter is just asking for trouble. it would also serve no practical purpose.


Australian Dingo's were purpose bred to hunt rabbits which had infested the outback. The rabbits had eaten so much of the foliage that many of the indigenous species were dying out.


there is a difference between breeding an animal to be good as a hunting companion, and creating a super carnivore. take a dog for example, a lot of them are bred to be used for hunts, yet if said dog were to try to kill us, it would not be too tough for us to take out. now lets imagine we do what guluere mentioned, and bring back some dinos. can you imagine how hard it would be to kill a T-rex? a adult human could kill a dog with bare hands, they would get scratched and bit quite a lot, but I'm confident they would be fine after a trip to the hospital. now a T-rex? you would need some HEAVY fire power to take it down.


To make a T-rex is still impossible, we would need existing code of DNA for such, big teeth, muscular, small arm.
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Re: Genetic Engineering

Postby Bmw » Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:46 am

That's why they have tanks but seriously we just need to recreate a few things or just build a better way of getting food I have personally come up with a plan to make a really good food source that works 24/7 and runs off solar power but it would cost about the same as any other building of the same size up until about 20 floors then it would be a lot more expensive since everything needed for it weighs a lot my designs have been submitted to a few companies to see if they would like the idea a building the same height as the worlds tallest building in Dubai would easily feed a million people if done correctly
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Re: Genetic Engineering

Postby Meliva » Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:59 am

Guluere wrote:
Meliva wrote:there is a difference between breeding an animal to be good as a hunting companion, and creating a super carnivore. take a dog for example, a lot of them are bred to be used for hunts, yet if said dog were to try to kill us, it would not be too tough for us to take out. now lets imagine we do what guluere mentioned, and bring back some dinos. can you imagine how hard it would be to kill a T-rex? a adult human could kill a dog with bare hands, they would get scratched and bit quite a lot, but I'm confident they would be fine after a trip to the hospital. now a T-rex? you would need some HEAVY fire power to take it down.


To make a T-rex is still impossible, we would need existing code of DNA for such, big teeth, muscular, small arm.


the T-rex is just a example I used to point out the difference of a hunting companion, and a super carnivore. also, YOU were the one who mentioned we could even make dinos first. honestly I think genetic engineering could greatly help our species, so long as we don't do anything stupid. like bringing back dinosaurs for example. I can understand bringing back CERTAIN extinct species, if they had a use. such as animals that would make good food sources, such as the Dodo. but we should not bring back long dead species and introduce them back into the wild. it would mess up the ecosystem immensely.
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Re: Genetic Engineering

Postby Grimrock Litless » Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:09 am

The dodo breed fast, grow fast and have yummy meat, even so, cus of its yummy meat, it was hunted to extinct because of how defenceless it was.
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Re: Genetic Engineering

Postby Meliva » Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:12 am

Guluere wrote:The dodo breed fast, grow fast and have yummy meat, even so, cus of its yummy meat, it was hunted to extinct because of how defenceless it was.


exactly why it would be a great species to bring back. it also died relatively recently, so that would make things easier as well. personally, id love to try dodo for a meal. it would take a while after bringing it back, but it might become a more popular meat then chicken.
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Re: Genetic Engineering

Postby Grimrock Litless » Sat Aug 13, 2016 3:23 am

We could do the same for fishes, veg, fruit.
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