Bring on the Goatpeople!!, Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news106489930.html

http://www.physorg.com/news106489930.html

How about just a halfway transformation? Goatmen? Dogcats? BushChimp?

i wonder if there are any chemicals that are unique to either donor that have changed?. time to check protein's.. are we living on borrowed time

How it is useful to mankind.....how it will ease the life of people.....is there any break throug regarding curing any deases like cancer/diabetes/heart ailments if not then this is simply waste of time and resources.

This post has been edited by Prashant Dahivalkar on Aug 17 2007, 06:53 AM

No research is truly a waste of time. Interesting breakthroughs come from many areas, if we focus too closely on one specific aspect of science we may never discover many beneficial things.

Because everyone in any sort of scientific field should be put on the task of making the human life longer, rather than improving the quality of life through innovations in different fields, right? That was one of the most ignorant comments I've ever heard, Prashant Dahivalkar.

It never takes long for alarmists to stomp on an idea.

Hey, if we can make a bacterium that takes things like waste plant material and convert it to useful fuel, hey, why not.

Better yet, lets work on creating one that can take long chain polymers and convert them into useful fuel (PVC, Rubber, etc).

There are already a lot of fun bugs (eg yeast) which have evolved along with everything else and to which most things are immune. For example .. yeasts don't attack rice crops because rice crops have active defences to keep them at bay. Mash up your rice and add sakimoto yeast and whey hey .. you got yourself a product.

What we seem to be asking for is a new bug that can break down the cell membrane of (say) rice AND turn the result into alcohol. The sort of new bug that the average rice crop will have absolutely no defence whatsoever against.

Slightly worrying if you ask me.

With a little hybridisation:- Goatsfoot fever

A giant step, we are closer now...to mutants...Only time will tell if we are in the right way, we can not stop science, but it seems to me that sooner or later a mistake will lead us to who knows what kind of big problems.

Does anyone really believe we are smart enough and wise enough to start doing things of this nature without completely screwing up everything?

You never know until you try.

yeah...
it would be nice to live for about 5 hundred or smthing like that years, but how da hell scientists can achieve that goal if they just focus on 1 thing - make life longer ?
they MAYBE could make people live for that long, but at what cost ? no protection against always mutating bacterias. oh it would be life but just not one worth living. you have 20 children, 16 of them have 6 legs or amoeba-like heads
only thing keeping science from making major breakthrough's is pesimistic thinking. screw ya'll who thinks that scientist should work just on 1 thing.
i have a lot of years ahead. so maybe when i be 50 y.o. they will have somthing that will make me live for another couple hunderd years, with clean air, nice enviroment, good health and everything that you may need to really live in comfort

Goatpeople? Cool! I wonder what it would be like to sleep with one?

Interesting. I would keep track of the spin off data and research that is yet to be obtained. Mutations are similar in some respects to an implant or a transplantation procedure.

Whether in a lab or environmental exposure some of the (poorly named) junk DNA within the human genotype may have had similar exposure, but did not or could not remain established. This is merely the beginning. My advice to the laboratory “Dr Frankenstein’s” would be to behave with this development and the technology behind it.

If you do not see the significance of this breakthrough then you truly are blind