Strange News

[cracked]

out of USA today:

Silky goats: Nexia Biotechnologies in Canada has created goats that can produce spiders silk in their milk. This can be harvested for industrial applications such as making light but strong bulletproof vests.


weird, huh?

drew

Yes it is, but the way I read it the first time was even weirder... Nexia Biotechnologies in Canada has created goats that can produce silk spiders in their milk.

[Knothead]

spiders silk in their milk

Even weirder for me...I tried to say it 5 times real fast....now I hafta clean the coffee offa my keyboard!

[J-Excel]

About 10 years ago, when I worked for a company that extracted hemophilia drugs from human plasma, I read about a goat that was genetically engineered to produce human hemophilia factors in its milk. Just spiced in the human gene. I'd like to see 'em do something really useful like splice genes from cocoa plants into cows so they make chocolate milk.

[BobOmega]

Chocolate milk making cows would rule. i'd try to buy one... maybe...

[cowboybooter]

Knot and J-Excel please don't make me laugh so suddenly again, I nearly fried the monitor in coffee, and it's a works jobby so they would not be happy,

ROFL still



CBB

[VERT]

yep saw a doco on TV about that a while back, pretty strange indeed

[Target]

OK, this is just flat out strange....who the hell thinks this stuff up? And why cross a spider and a goat??

Geez......conjures up all sorts of strange images doesn't it?

I'm trying to picture what a goats web would look like.

Suppose it would make production of string cheese easier as well since the string part is already built in.

Gotta feel bad for those baby goats though. Imagine trying to drink your milk and swallow thread at the same time....yuk!

LOL

[cracked]

im trying to picture what a goats web would look like

roflmao!!!!!!

drew

[kenyg]

- the heck with goat spiders - I want the chocolate cows.