I Didn’t Have Eggs

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But I thought bananas were eggs :( (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

there's no reason bioluminescence would be impossible to select for, it would just take an incredibly long time.

We can speed up the process. But giving a shotgun to a monkey doesnt make the monkey a engineer, now does it?

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who's giving shotguns to monkeys? The Ancient Romans didn't have CAD programs, they were still engineers. It took longer to build things, and some of them fell down, but just because their techniques were more primative doesn't stop them being engineers.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, when you find evidence of the the romans building aquaducts by throwing mud randomly. You let me know.

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Piling rocks in the shape of bridges, then copying the designs of the bridges that survived the best with minor iterations. Some iterations made worse bridges; these weren't copied, but the rest survived and led to better bridges.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The romans didnt randomly piled rocks and built bridges. They put in a lot of engineer forthought before even beginning construction. Certainly some were primed to fail because of miscalculations and misunderstandings (something that plagues even modern engineering).

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I think we're getting carried away with analogies, the point is: any technique that deliberately modifies the genome of an organism to achieve a desired result is genetic engineering, and such an organism is a GMO