{"id":5756,"date":"2009-05-19T09:49:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2009-05-19T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:49:33","slug":"to-build-a-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5756","title":{"rendered":"T-Rex of Suburbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/05\/how_to_build_a_dinosaur.php\">P.Z. Myers<\/a> strokes his inner mad scientist, as he talks about persuading chickens to let him manipulate their embryos in hopes of reproducing a dinosaur:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KQ5H1fk3keM\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/trex_of_suburbia.jpg\" align=right><\/a>As for respecting the chickens themselves, what can be grander and more respectful than this project? I would whisper to my chickens, \"With these experiments, I will take your children's children's children, and give them great ripping claws like scythes, and razor-sharp serrate fangs like daggers, and I will turn them into multi-story towers of muscle and bone that will be able to trample KFC restaurants as if they were matchboxes.\" And their eyes would light up with a feral gleam of primeval ambition, and they would offer me their ovaries willingly.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>But I have a dream, too. Of a day when biotechnology is ubiquitous, and middle-class kids everywhere will have a cheap DNA sequencer and synthesizer in their garages, and a freezer with handy vectors and enzymes for directed insertional mutagenesis. And one day, Mom will come home with a box of fresh guaranteed organic free range chicken eggs, and Junior's eyes will glitter with a germ of a cunning plan, fed by a little book he found in the library\u2026and 30-foot-tall fanged chickens will triumphantly stride the cul-de-sacs of suburbia, and the roar of the dinosaur will be heard once again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sweet! I hope I live to see the day... and the day after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.Z. Myers strokes his inner mad scientist, as he talks about persuading chickens to let him manipulate their embryos in hopes of reproducing a dinosaur: As for respecting the chickens themselves, what can be grander and more respectful than this project? I would whisper to my chickens, \"With these experiments, I will take your children's [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}