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Posted by Leperous on Wed Mar 3rd at 9:58pm 2004

http://prinfo.no/boland/transg/cactus_project.asp

Basically, someone decided to genetically engineer a cactus to grow 'human' hair. Madness.

(and yes, I'm pretty sure it's true)





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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Wed Mar 3rd at 10:01pm 2004

That's pretty insane. But intriuging at the same time. [addsig]



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Posted by omegaslayer on Wed Mar 3rd at 10:10pm 2004

Ahhh yes the advances of genetics, isn't it great. This is what I learned to do in AP Bio in High School.



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Mar 3rd at 10:28pm 2004

? posted by Leperous

Basically, someone decided to genetically engineer a cactus to grow 'human' hair. Madness.

the question is.. what kind of human hair

[addsig]



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Wed Mar 3rd at 10:36pm 2004

I think the kind that you get on your back but carnt quite shave off [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Mar 3rd at 11:03pm 2004

? posted by gimpinthesink
I think the kind that you get on your back but carnt quite shave off

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha... thats killer bud, the funniest thing i have heard in days

[addsig]



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Thu Mar 4th at 12:04am 2004

Great, so now even cacti have more hair on them then I do on my head. F**king baldness...



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Posted by Kain on Thu Mar 4th at 12:28am 2004

Wonderful genetic achivement... and i thought "necessity was the mother of invention"; i really can't think of any practical use of a hairy cactus....



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Posted by Crono on Thu Mar 4th at 1:10am 2004

One step closer to curing human hair loss, Kain. [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Thu Mar 4th at 2:10am 2004

More money is spent every year on curing erectile dysfunction than on helping starving kids. I can see uses for this thing.



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Posted by Vash on Thu Mar 4th at 2:41am 2004

? posted by Orpheus
? posted by Leperous

Basically, someone decided to genetically engineer a cactus to grow 'human' hair. Madness.

the question is.. what kind of human hair

let me just say...That hair doesnt grow on a chin. :wink

[addsig]



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Posted by matt on Thu Mar 4th at 9:54am 2004

The pictures are just weird:

It sort of looks like it could of been done in PhotoShop... But your right, its probably real.

[addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Thu Mar 4th at 11:08am 2004

It is real, it was in my New Scientist magazine:

http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp;?id=ns24361





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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 4th at 11:12am 2004

although i have no doubt of the reality this subject has, the statement

? quote:
"It is real, it was in my New Scientist magazine:"

somehow retracts more than confirms that belief ..

[addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Thu Mar 4th at 12:01pm 2004

? posted by Orpheus

? quote:
"It is real, it was in my New Scientist magazine:"

somehow retracts more than confirms that belief ..

New Scientist is one of the more famous Journals around, and defintely quite well informed. I see no reason for that making it harder to believe.





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Posted by Kain on Thu Mar 4th at 1:28pm 2004

Well, from an aesthetic point of vue, it's a disaster... A cactus with hair! that's extremely gross. Let's hope the juice of that thing cures baldness.



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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 4th at 3:43pm 2004

? posted by fraggard
? posted by Orpheus

? quote:
"It is real, it was in my New Scientist magazine:"

somehow retracts more than confirms that belief ..

New Scientist is one of the more famous Journals around, and definitely quite well informed. I see no reason for that making it harder to believe.

no insult intended to your magazine fragman.

it just struck me odd, that the reliability of the subject is based on the origin of the article... didn't snarkpit recently have a debate on a book and its contents? many faithful rely solely on the book, as proof of its content.

i just thought it was ironic, that our learned master lep would fall into the same word trap

try not to read my comment as an attack on the magazine, but more as an ironic comparison.. the sentance was nearly identical to ones i have heard from the faithfully religious

[addsig]



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Thu Mar 4th at 4:06pm 2004

You can't really compare a modern factual scientific publication to what is for the most part a work of fiction written oh i don't know a gazillion years ago about events which happened hundreds of years before. [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Thu Mar 4th at 4:13pm 2004

lol Orph, the point in the message was that it has been independently corroborated by something/someone who is actually quite trustworthy (and where you can investigate/question that trust all you want if you want!). It's not really comparable to the bible, due to age, intent and message.



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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 4th at 4:23pm 2004

/me stifles last of giggles..

its still funny as hell..

*imagines lep upon really BIG soap box*

"it is true dammit, it was written in my magzine"

[addsig]




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