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Would it be possible?

  • 06-06-2008 1:02am
    #1
    estebancambias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭


    To mix some human DNA into a Spider Egg so that a spider could become educated and perhaps get a degree?


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  • #2
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    Who said spiders aren't educated...


  • #3
    estebancambias
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    From my understanding a spider isn't educated, they just DO. A spider doesn't have any interests other than making a web and eating some fly.

    I want to know would it ever be possible for a Spider to have an understanding of Bismarck's foreign policy, the formation of a cone shaped volcano, algebra, Joyce etc.


  • #4
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,093 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    I see another ban in your future......

    Not your ornery onager



  • #5
    castie
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭castie




  • #6
    challengemaster
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    lol.gif

    Possible..but there's only one way to know what it might actually think


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  • #7
    DrIndy
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    i'm leaving this thread open for the moment because it gave me a laugh....... spider-pig, spider-pig......


  • #8
    Lil' Smiler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Lil' Smiler


    So you'd get a Spider Baby????

    I had that thought last week when I took my washing in off the line and then I went to put on a pair of underwear and there was a manky spider crawling inside them.. if I had put them on, maybe it could have made it's way up and laid eggs and then I might have given birth to spider babies!!


  • #9
    Chunky Monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Chunky Monkey


    Spider pig, spider pig, Does whatever a spider pig does, Can he swing, From a web, No he cant, He's a pig, Look Out! He is a spider pig!
    ZorbaTehZ wrote: »
    Who said spiders aren't educated...

    Not exactly related but the other day I came up with this theory that homosexual spiders are smarter than their heterosexual counterparts cos they won't get eaten after mating (I think it was in spiders that homosexuality was noted), survival of the fittest and all that :p What ya think?


  • #10
    2Scoops
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    estebancambias wrote: »
    To mix some human DNA into a Spider Egg so that a spider could become educated and perhaps get a degree?

    No, the amount of genetic information you would have to supply the spider with would make any embryo completely unviable. :eek:


  • #11
    estebancambias
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Damn.

    So in theory it would be like trying to play Football Manager 08 on a 20 year old computer.


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  • #12
    Lil' Smiler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Lil' Smiler


    Also...why were you wondering this??

    I still wonder about the possibility of me giving birth to a Spiderbaby, when I say wonder, I mean I had nightmares :(


  • #13
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,757 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    i want to know what the inside of a spider is like.


  • #14
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,093 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Tree wrote: »
    i want to know what the inside of a spider is like.
    Soft and creamy.

    Not your ornery onager



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