2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7265#Comment_7265 2007-12-12T05:04:27-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 stephengraves http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1137

Scientists in Korea's Gyeongsang National University have cloned cats, modifying a gene to change their skin colour and making them glow a reddish colour under ultraviolet ...

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2007/12/123_15447.html

They claim the research will be used to help treat genetic diseases and reproduce animals on the verge of extinction. We know the truth: they want to use cats as flashlights.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7266#Comment_7266 2007-12-12T05:06:48-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 Madeley http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1356

Or take them clubbing.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7268#Comment_7268 2007-12-12T05:11:27-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 stephengraves http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1137

Or contrive some sort of cat lava-lamp by suspending them in a glass jar with bungee cords.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7270#Comment_7270 2007-12-12T05:28:53-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 Kosmopolit http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1346

....they want to use cats as flashlights. ... Or take them clubbing. How about we use them as clubs? It's what I feel like doing when my ex-housemate's cat that she dumped on us decides he ...

... Or take them clubbing.

How about we use them as clubs?

It's what I feel like doing when my ex-housemate's cat that she dumped on us decides he needs to be fed at 3 AM.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7273#Comment_7273 2007-12-12T06:23:56-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 Scribe http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=904

Actually they are going to create a game show around the cat, and once they get their mileage out of that they're going to create a reality show.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7278#Comment_7278 2007-12-12T07:03:27-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 Chaosbringer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1409

Damn, the Koreans are ahead of us in the glowing animal race! We Americans have no choice but to start making something bigger start glowing strange colors! Do I smell genetically modifying ...

We Americans have no choice but to start making something bigger start glowing strange colors!

Do I smell genetically modifying bears so they'll glow happy colors when they bust into our homes to eat us?]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7281#Comment_7281 2007-12-12T07:14:43-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 Madeley http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1356

Unfortunately not. They will be engineered to be scent-neutral.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7283#Comment_7283 2007-12-12T07:26:16-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 The Skoot http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1300

"Aaaaggh, bears, mauling and eating me! Trippy light show though. Oooo."

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7289#Comment_7289 2007-12-12T08:00:54-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 muse hick http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=483

an allergen free cat would be really great

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7290#Comment_7290 2007-12-12T08:01:13-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 harchangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=134

Giant glowing bears would be great for airport runways. then the cats can be used by those flag men on the battleships. Top Gun would have been so much better if the flaggers had glowing cats.

Top Gun would have been so much better if the flaggers had glowing cats.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=7997#Comment_7997 2007-12-14T15:11:30-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 KitsuneCaligari http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=248

One year out at Burning Man, some guy set up an air cannon, into which he'd load several handfuls of fluorescent glowsticks, and he'd shoot it off over the heads of the raver kids dancing out on the ...

I mention this only because it was the first image that came to mind after hearing about this Major Breakthrough in Kitty Science....

So long as cats don't develop thumbs, go ahead and mutate them all you like, I say....]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=8075#Comment_8075 2007-12-14T22:51:37-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 F. David Swallow II http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=815

I wish i could buy one and freeze it, then melt it in the summer time and use it. or i could just imangine my evil evil black cat glowing red in the dark.....

or i could just imangine my evil evil black cat glowing red in the dark.....]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=8119#Comment_8119 2007-12-15T09:29:01-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 wesunruh http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=640

first thought: where's the lolcat for this? between glowing cats and unafeared mice, science has gotten pretty wacky this week

between glowing cats and unafeared mice, science has gotten pretty wacky this week]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=8124#Comment_8124 2007-12-15T09:45:11-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 Paul Duffield http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6

Wow, I think that unafraid mouse needs its own thread. That's a pretty philosophically important step in genetics.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=8207#Comment_8207 2007-12-15T19:30:11-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 Sara 013 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=400

If the cats were phosphorescent instead, I'd be really impressed. As it is, I remain skeptical.... Unafeared mice = fat predators.

As it is, I remain skeptical....

Unafeared mice = fat predators.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=271&Focus=8212#Comment_8212 2007-12-15T19:39:45-08:00 2013-05-20T10:03:26-07:00 Alan Tyson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1299

From the Unafraid Mouse article: "Scientists at Tokyo University say they were able to successfully switch off a mouse's instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats — showing that ...

"Scientists at Tokyo University say they were able to successfully switch off a mouse's instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats — showing that fear is genetically hardwired and not learned through experience, as commonly believed."

I don't think that disproves learned fear - most of us don't instinctively fear our parents, but I bet a kid who was abused and beaten by a parent would be pretty fucking scared. I bet if you took these mice and put them in a cage with a cat that hadn't been trained not to pounce on them (how they did THAT is a far more fascinating question, in my opinion), and one of their mousy number was eviscerated before their eyes, they would learn to fear cats, or at least that particular cat.

Which isn't to say the pictures of the mouse and kitten cuddling aren't ridiculously adorable.]]>