I saw this one coming a MILE away.

I won't add this to my live list, but I SOO called this one too.

Wired Magazine is running a story on its site with an interesting side article.
It states that scientist have made it possible for two mice to have genetically related children. Two MALE mice that is.

My freshmen or sophomore year at Tech I soo called this. I said that using cloning techniques, it will eventually be possible to two men to have a child faux-biologically.
I mean the difference between a male and a female is just ONE chromosome. And men carry BOTH the x AND the y.
It's basic biology. Women provide the egg, which provides an x, and the man provides the sperm, which could be either an x or a y. 50/50 chance. Women provide no determiner in the gender of the child. It's all determined by which sperm fertilizes the egg.
Knowing this, I was able to foresee this eventual result.

Now this is not to say that it won't eventually be possible for two WOMEN to have a genetically related child. In fact, I believe it definitely WILL using the SAME process, just coxing the stem cell to become a sperm cell.
This would be MUCH harder though, and could only result in a female child.
That is, unless at least one of the women doesn’t have an obscure genetic gender condition. (I forget the title, but it results in a YXX rather than XX.) In which case the parent wouldn't be 100% female to begin with.

Details & Science aside,
I soo totally called this one. Ha ha. :-p



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Yarf! *Chews on rawhide*

Bush loves to dick around.

Bush
Bush is dicking around in Iraq, but lays out a screwed up plan to implement more fuel-efficient vehicles here in the US.
His plan targets 'light trucks' and SUV, which is fine and dandy, but it does nothing for the largest vehicles.

So people will still be driving their hummers and being pricks.
And not only do their hummers waste fuel; they also are a hazard to EVERY OTHER vehicle on the road.
They have Horrible blind spots, slow response times, and will utterly destroy another car if they hit. How are they NOT illegal!?
There's a Hummer dealership half a block from where I work. They have a 'driving course' in their parking lot. It consists of a asphalt track an angled roadway (45 degree), a pile of logs, and a bunch of boulders. WHO THE FUCK encounters BOULDERS and piles of logs on their daily routine?
"Oh sorry Hun, I'm late because I had to scale two BOULDERS and a fallen TREE. Oh! And the Civil Engineers who laid down the highway fucked up. It's now a half-pipe. Yeah, crazy huh? The asphalt, which is normally level, is now nearly VERTICAL."
Yeah...that's likely.

And conservatives LOVE to call anyone who opposes the Iraq war as "unpatriotic".
Whatever.
How is sending Americans to their death in another country "Patriotic"?
Especially since when we DO get out of there, they will most likely have even MORE of a grudge against us than they did before.
How is THAT fighting terrorism?!?
Huh bush?
Explain that.

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GRRRR! *Starts to foam at mouth*