BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs

Subject: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: bobad
Date: 12 Jan 06 - 11:28 PM

Wow! Finally what the whole world has been waiting for.

(note reporter's name)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4605202.stm

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 12:36 AM

Science advanced rapidly after the fairly recent discovery that scorpions all are fluorescent under black light. The ability to find the little buggers in the desert, at night when they're out and about, has led to significant advances in knowledge of desert ecological interactions, both for scorpions and for other species with which they interact.

But needing a blacklight to find your pet pig, especially an expensive laboratory specimen, is a bit much.

Of course if your just trying to separate bits of your pig from some other pig, after they got somehow "together," I suppose it has it's uses...

John

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: open mike
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 01:48 AM

i once knew of a marine biologist who was doing research on jellyfish
to find out why and how they were flourescent or phosforescent...esp.
when near nuclear submarines...this caused the subs to be more visible
on radar...she had to collect the jellyfish and put them in a blender and seperate them into their components. a hard thing for a jelly fish lover to have to do.

and all for the navy as i recall....

maybe some relation to the ones used here to genetically engineer these green piggs...maybe kermit and miss piggy would like to see some pink frogs??

http://www.worth1000.com/emailthis.asp?entry=220667
(actually a toad)
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/181500/181973ChKG_w.jpg
just its (it's?) panties are pink..
http://www.saurian.net/htm/pumilio_red.htm
http://www.wildherps.com/species/D.antongilii.html
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/Grzimek_herps/Dendrobatidae/Dendrobates_pumilio.jpg/view.html
http://www.saurian.net/htm/pumiliopics.htm
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-lifeform=Amphibian&where-taxon=Dyscophus+antongilii
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-lifeform=Amphibian&where-taxon=Platypelis+tuberifera

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: cool hand Tom
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 02:04 AM

I saw the pig on the news tonight and just thought why why why,seems dr menglers still alive,in fact he cloned himself before the war ended lol.Hey its possible.

       Regards Tom

instead of a curfew order the cops could make the crims flourecent LOL.Easy to spot when there out late.jees there is loads of uses for flourecent people if you thinkabout it ??????.

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 03:50 AM

We had a pink, fluffy dinosaur* last night, so green pigs isn't much.

* someone was speculating why the experts keep saying dinosaurs were green and brown, and you should have them in more interesting colours. A pink fluffy dinosaur Birthday cake appeared.....

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: mooman
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 04:40 AM

...this is old hat...

We already have some fluorescent green humans(?) here on the 'Cat (neither fluffy nor cuddly)...

moo

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 06:34 AM

I knew a guy at a SCA camping event who stuck a green 'stick light' in his mouth. He was wandering around in the dark talking to people and giggling when the light flashed on their faces. It broke eventually, and stained his tongue and the inside of his mouth green.
I think he is still alive, but he was an AJ anyway...

I'm not making this up you know...

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 08:42 AM

I find it hard not to think about things like bacon and tomato sandwiches, pork barbecue, and moo shu pork all sitting around, glowing in the dark -- and the subsequent ability to find the sewage treatment plant in the dark!

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 10:06 AM

Can they do them in orange?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Crystal
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 11:18 AM

PIGGYWINKLES!!!!!!!!!

I want one!!!

Actually I can breed my own, now where is the number for Invitrogen.....

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: MMario
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 11:28 AM

green glowing pork! Now with some green eggs (Araucauna chickens) we can have some green eggs and ham!

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 12:21 PM

Liz, maybe I'm being a bit dense, but why do you want them in orange?

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: jillfiddle
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 01:18 PM

Someone on the BBC wondered why they were bothering with fluorescent green pigs: why didn't they concentrate on breeding a transparent politician?
jill xx

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 02:21 PM

I'm moderately impressed. Now, if they'd toss a little avian genetic material into the mix and come up with flying glowing green pigs I'd be really impressed.

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 03:34 PM

I'm in love with a big green pig;
A big green pig love me...

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 06:17 PM

Are they mint flavoured?

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 06 - 06:25 PM

It's not easy, bein' green,
Glowing the whole night through....

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 07:16 AM

There are some restaurants that put you in a totally dark room. The idea started with a blind restaurant owner forgetting to turn on the lights one night.

now you would be able to tell you are eating pork.... and who just had....

hmmmm

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 10:39 AM

This is what happens when researchers have the unfortunate combination of a grant AND time on thier hands.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Jan 06 - 08:26 PM

Well, danged... Me and the Wes Ginny Slide Rule have been working on crossin' a crow with a pg and gettin' the pig to fly and thought we were right at the doorstep of a major breakthru anf then this>>>

Hey we was up fir major funding but now we have green pigs an' they gonna get the crow/pig grant prolly cut in half next year... Last year we got a couple nudred bucks so I reckon we'll trudge ahead with 'bout a hundred bucks this year but, mark my words, we'll bet them pigs in the air soon...

Bobert and the WGSR

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jan 06 - 06:21 PM

I like orange... I don't like pink.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 04:51 AM

er ... I thought we were talking about green ones ...

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Crystal
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 05:15 AM

Actually Stephen there IS a practical application for the green pigs!
Unfortunatly the general public will probably not notice it as the fact that the pigs glow in the dark is much more interesting that the fact that scientists are using it to look at how organs develop, especially the liver and heart I believe.
What would be best is if scientists could tag precancerous cells with GFP then use them to watch tumour progression!

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 05:29 AM

"You're a pink oinky pig, I'm a green oinky pig!"

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 05:24 PM

We were.. I asked if they came in orange because I don't like pink.... actually there is an orange pig, called the Tamworth. They're an old English breed and quite lovely.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Fluorescent Green Pigs
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Jan 06 - 06:16 PM

TTO: Youre a pink toothbrush...