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Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!!
11/04/09

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Without making a Metal Gear Solid reference, I can see where opponents might see this as a potential tool to make newer weapons on the Nuclear Biological Chemical scale (NBC), but I think this is a good thing if we are going to see potential remedies for ailments past, present and future.

While some might see this as an opportunity to make a "Frankenstein" or "Test Tube Society", I also see this as a means to finally engineer out anything that might make us humans less suseptible to any disease threat that we have yett encounter (or close.)

The same might apply to the currently 9,999 other genomes. #10kgenomeproject
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Kaiser-Machead
11/04/09

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"Daddy the giraffe chromosomes are so BBBBORING I wanna see the lion's!" #10kgenomeproject
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RoboBagins
11/04/09

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Damnit. I know have to have beef for dinner. #bioniccow
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EBone
11/04/09

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Sounds like it was a teaching project for CSU.

A delicious teaching project. Remember, the cuter the animal, the more delicious! #bioniccow
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/04/09

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We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him stronger, better, faster... #bioniccow
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ninjagin
11/04/09

@Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: ... more delicious than ever. #bioniccow
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ircmaster
11/04/09

@ninjagin: And with half the calories #bioniccow
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maven2k
10/26/09

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If I'm not mistaken the Mantis Shrimp beat their prey over the head to stun them with a really swift punch. I saw that on Head Games a couple weeks ago, heh. #shrimpeyesensors
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Animal_Chin
10/26/09

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I accidentally got one of these when I bought some uncured live rock for my marine aquarium. It proceeded to kill every other living creature in my tank within a week (including a hapless sand dollar). It also dug a cave in another piece of rock which it would crawl into and block the entrance with debris each evening. Although mine was only about 4" long, the force of the strike of a large Californian species approaches that of a 22 caliber bullet, and is capable of breaking double layered safety glass. They are, weight for weight, probably the most formidable animals alive. And since they can see polarized light, they can see you through the glass of the tank. I eventually had to drain my tank and start from scratch to get rid of it. #shrimpeyesensors
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Jux
10/26/09

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Mantistry! They should've sent a mantis. #shrimpeyesensors
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Kaiser-Machead
10/26/09

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The mantis shrimp is neither shrimp or mantis, it's an archangelpod sent from the FSM.
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32ndnote
10/26/09

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Avatar must look so lame compared to Mantis Shrimp movies. #shrimpeyesensors
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Curves
10/26/09

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A face only a mother could love.

Or Bubba Gump. #shrimpeyesensors
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Pessimippopotamus
10/26/09

@Curves: I'm sure I can learn to love how it tastes. However it tastes. #shrimpeyesensors
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Kaiser-Machead
10/26/09

@Curves: We dunt eat man-tis shr-imp. Lt. I tr-ied, but since Lt. Dan said I make gojillions of dollars, I can have my fin-gers sewn back on with no trouble atall. #shrimpeyesensors
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SudiptiEquestridomus
10/26/09

@Pessimippopotamus: pretty damn good. I had it in Thailand. I would say better than lobster but not as good as rock lobster.
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Pessimippopotamus
10/26/09

@SudiptiEquestridomus: Did someone say Rock Lobster? #shrimpeyesensors
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Ehrich Blackhound
10/26/09

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So, what's the point of everyone's 32 bit color displays if we can only make out 10,000 colors?! And how did this lowly shrimp get color acuity that deep? As a human, I am outraged...OUTRAGED I say!!! :p #shrimpeyesensors
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met2art
10/26/09

@Ehrich Blackhound: According to many estimates, the human visual system can distinguish about ten million different colors. However, that doesn't mean all at once. Limits on cone/rod density, nerve impulse frequency (which directly corrolates to color perception) and concurrent enzyme production limit the number of simultaneously distinguished colors into the 10,000 range. That could be considerably higher or lower depending on intensity, contrast and individual genetic propensity for color sensitivy. (Recent studies show about ten percent of women to have an active gene making them nearly tetrachromatic. They are sensitive to a much higher range of color perception, and the genetic make up of male versus female chromatic sensitivities varies markedly (based on the X chromosome), giving females a potentially higher likelihood of having wider objective color perception.

A 1600x1200 monitor can only display slightly a maximum of under 2 million colors simultaneously (but would be "noise" if it did so). A 32-bit color system provides ranges for better tonal gradation within ranges that we can visually detect (even if we may not notice all of them). But, having a broader selection for smoother color gradients, plus our ability to distinguish between many million more, makes for a (potentially) much more vibrant and realistically colored image. #shrimpeyesensors
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PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
10/26/09

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What is the evolutionary reason that their eyesight needs to see so many colors? #shrimpeyesensors
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Anonymoose
10/26/09

@PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: : mantis shrimp cinema is much more advanced than ours. all of our best movies are just pale imitations of their originals. that's right. we stole lawrence of arabia, bridge over the river kwai, sisterhood of the traveling pants, etc. from the shrimp. #shrimpeyesensors
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christian.denney
10/26/09

@PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Male mantis shrimp gauge each others strength based on extremely complicated visual displays and color patterns. This can actually lead to bluffing when one male has recently molted and so is vulnerable, but will still have the same color patterns.

It allows males to establish dominance without fighting since their strikes are fast enough to cause light when the cavitation bubbles collapse. There are a lot of other proposed reasons as well, check out wikipedia. These animals are really cool

(marine biology major here)
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Adam Grow
10/26/09

@PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: : [en.wikipedia.org] #shrimpeyesensors
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Anonymoose
10/26/09

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and i thought the noble shrimp had peaked at being coconut butterflied and deep fried. this will be the greatest shrimp related innovation since easy peel shrimp. #shrimpeyesensors
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Pessimippopotamus
10/26/09

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Forget that. Let's invent Mantis Shrimp-inspired weaponry instead! #shrimpeyesensors
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Span_Wolf
10/26/09

@Pessimippopotamus: I second this, I'd raise my hand in approval, but a mantis shrimp took it off in a single blinding strike. #shrimpeyesensors
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