So last night, I came across this article, via Rocket Jones, who came across it via someone else... Now I admit, I was dead tired when I read this, but now almost a full day later, the same thoughts are going through my mind...
Here's the article. Go read it, and then come back here... I'll wait...
Welcome back... Ok.. Have any thoughts? Two things jumpped out at me from this article...
First, before these people decided to watch fruit flys fighting, they watched lobsters fighting... They watched lobsters fighting for 20 years... 20 Years!!! That probably means that there were people on that study team that graduated some bio program, started studying lobster fights, and just did that for 20 years before they did anything else... I can't imagine doing anything for 20 years straight, let alone watching lobsters fight... And think, just when you think you might get to do something new after 20 long years, the next project comes in, and it is going to be watching fruitflys fight... I swear I'd snap right there...
The second thing that hit me, was that not only are they going to study fruitflys... The study was used as a control group in this case... They are going to geneticly mutate fruitflys and then study them fighting... Ok, I can accept that they are going to watch the bug version of WWE or UFC, but hello, do they need to mutate them?... Does this sound like a B movie plot line to anyone else?... What happens when one of those little mutant fruitflys gets away... Anyone else heard of the African Honey Bee?... Biologists were messing around trying to cross breed them, and 26 queens got away in Brazil... Those 26 queens have bred and expanded to cover much of South America, all of Central America, and they've been making inroads in the US for some years... Here's a thought... Stop screwing with the genetics of a bug that is already a pain in the ass, they'll somehow, due to Murphy's Law, get meaner, and they'll get away...
Posted by Backstage at April 8, 2004 08:14 PMIf you had not said that stuff about the 20 years of watching lobsters fight, I would not have ever read the article. I just looked at the pretty pictures without reading the boring article. So why did you bother to read it? Next thing we will hear from you is that you went and bought the video, huh? ;)
Posted by: Bill Bulldog at April 11, 2004 09:15 PM