Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]





Welcome to The Round Table. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Your thoughts on bio-engineering?
Topic Started: Oct 20 2013, 10:07 AM (544 Views)
Megaraptorking
Member Avatar
I stand in the shadows waiting for you to return me to the light.

What are your thoughts on well Bio engineering, such as creating new species, not as in bring back the dinosaurs or extinct animals that is another whole topic of it own. I mean do you like the idea of making hybrids or man-made creatures, to a farther extent than mammal breeds and such.

Okay I thought of a topic like this from Syfy channels' weekend moive marathon stuff... However I was not watching Sharktopus or something like a impossible mutant. More of giant killer eight to twelve inch locusts that were designed to well eat insects who ate crows however a prototype escaped and begun to kill people.

Well I say it is a good and bad thing because well we can make better food for ourselves however bad because in the process of saving our food or creating more food we might end up making well a mutant insect or creature period to end up killing people and destroying our resources. So yeah you should not mess with animals and insect eating plants.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sane
Member Avatar


Funny, cause last week I had to discuss this in school. Honestly, I think it's a very high-risk, high-benefit situation. We could have the potential to engineer something really amazing and useful, but the chance of it having no flaws is slim to none. We'd like to think we know everything, and can handle anything that happens, but... That's because we have no real competition, and humans are so egotistical. Imagine accidentally making something, releasing it to the wild and having it completely dominate and overpower its environment. Nothing is ever completely controlled, even in a lab setting.
I personally think we should just let things form themselves, naturally, and not purposely try to engineer something "perfect", because it will most likely come back to bite us in the ass. Take modern-day processed food for example. A company can remove all the sugar from something while still retaining its taste and health benefits, but something else has to be used in place. As much as we try to rid something of certain flaws, new ones will pop up. And sometimes those new problems are even worse than the ones we had before.
Edited by Sane, Oct 20 2013, 10:21 AM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Mathius Tyra
Member Avatar
Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

Not agree with this as well. We shouldn't play with nature really. Even today, GMO plants are known to cause some long term disease such as cancers or something(if I'm not wrong.

Even some selective breed animals today such as pug, black moor goldfish, balloon shortbody fish, crested domestic duck have suffered from our "joke" on nature.

Edited by Mathius Tyra, Oct 20 2013, 10:25 AM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sheather
Member Avatar
Thank you for the set, Azrael!

It's really variable. Sometimes, it's going to be dangerous, but a lot of genetically modified plants are completely safe as they're simply genetic chimaeras (genes from one plant spliced into another to provide disease resistance, for example), but it's still all natural stuff.

I wouldn't consider the breeding of domestic animals nor animal hybrids to be genetic engineering, also, as it's still pretty much natural, as in not done by splicing genes or anything.

What's more dangerous are the companies who work with GMO crops like Monsanto.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Hamikins
Member Avatar
You will respect my authoratah.

Yes the problem is the people. There needs to be some rules to bein effect for me to agree with this:
They need to be in completely sealed conditions so it cannot get into the environment while testing.
They need to completely test every,single, possibility.
They need to make these test results available to the public.
And there has to be no corruption at all. xD
I don't think they do any of these.

But even though the genes are from real organisms, you never know what could happen
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Posted Image Azrael
Member Avatar


I don't agree with it at all, it's never ended very well in all previous attempts to "govern" nature. If your going to devote this much time and money to something, I think it should be to clone and genetically diversify critically endangered or recently extinct animals that need our help. Rather than creating entire new species or splicing animals into horrible chimeras.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Similis
Member Avatar


While tampering with nature on large scale might end up in a failure, our species already has a long history of 'adjusting' things to our needs. If not the selective breeding/farming, we would have a hard time with the food production and considering the ever-growing overpopulation of this world by humans, we're going to need to continue adjusting our little planet to our needs or we'll simply fall into a global crisis. I'd say it should be given a chance, but restrict and watch over the processes so some 'good' people don't run off their course.

First and foremost our species is always concentrated about own development/survival/inner conflicts so I doubt we'll see the money being donated to the points of less concern (not that I'm saying I wouldn't want to see it being spent on something else).
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
« Previous Topic · Pets & Wildlife · Next Topic »
Add Reply