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Oh sweet, more man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
by stametseater 4y ago
Oh sweet, more man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
- pavel_lishin 4y agoThis sounds like the cutest possible man-made horror. I'm putting these little guys in my D&D game.
- jollyllama 4y agoSearched for an article with pics Man made horror, not very cute, can confirm
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoHave a link handy?
- perilunar 4y agohttps://www.popsci.com/science/antler-mice-stem-cell/ https://www.popsci.com/science/antler-mice-stem-cell/
- tsujamin 4y ago+1 for instant regrets
- Buttons840 4y ago"Mouse with antlers" would be better described as "mouse with cancerous growth on head with some antler like traits".
- pavel_lishin 4y agoYou are ... very much correct, those pictures are no fun at all. I'm glad I drew my own version before googling those: https://i.imgur.com/YMXTnX0.png https://i.imgur.com/YMXTnX0.png
- Fauntleroy 4y agoThe actual results of the experiment are not what the title would lead one to believe.
- skeaker 4y agoIt's weird how this phrase has come to mean "potentially vaguely unethical"
- kanzure 4y ago> "Such a treatment could raise ethical concerns about the cross-species implantation of cells, as well as the significant safety trials that would be required" Yes the significant ethical concerns of deer antlers... what? We need to just accelerate (in general; I don't have many thoughts about deer antlers but don't let this stop you) and not get into another incident spending 14 years "safety testing" golden rice: https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1636170779447513091 https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1636170779447513091
- UberFly 4y agoYes, perhaps we should get the Wuhan lab to go full speed ahead on this. What could go wrong?
- jMyles 4y agoIntentionally engineering features that make a pathogen more dangerous (whether or not that's the origin story of SARS-CoV-2) is not the same thing as putting antlers on a mouse. Or even putting antlers on a human. Electricity is wonderful for lighting our homes, powering our thinking machines, and talking to each other over vast distances using radio. That doesn't mean it's OK for some rent-seeking asshole company to make electric torture devices and hand them out to the cops. Likewise, genetic engineering can be useful, and fun, and productive, and insightful. It can also be murderous. The former don't per se imply the latter. Not everything needs to be weaponized. And some things need not to be.
- UncleEntity 4y ago> Not everything needs to be weaponized. And some things need not to be. And some things need not be done at all. Could you imagine being a being with human level intelligence but trapped in a pig’s body, because science? Or The Island of Doctor Moreau as a warning and not a playbook of “things I want to do with my career”.
- xwdv 4y agoEventually the antler keeps growing until the mouse is more antler than mouse. An antler with a mouse as a tumor.
- IncRnd 4y agoThis is a really expensive and roundabout way to have discovered a better mouse trap.
- chrisco255 4y agoIf this were available as a cosmetic enhancement for humans, how many people you think would go for it?
- c-cube 4y agoI shudder at the idea of people who put truck nuts on their F150 having access to that kind of technology...
- chrisco255 4y agoHonestly, the last thing a redneck would ever do is wear antlers during deer season.
- hinkley 4y agoI was reminded of the Hyperion Cantos, where "biosculpting" is a thing and the reformed party animal had turned himself first into a satyr, and then back into standard human.
- linksnapzz 4y agoA surgeon named “Graumann Hackett” did it for Silenus, IIRC.
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