If Gene Splicing Became Legal And Was Available Today, Would You Get Spliced?

[Blackrat]

So, you'd want to be spliced with a cow?

Well, you'd never need to buy milk again .

 

[love.christine]

Well, you'd never need to buy milk again .

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Well, you'd never need to buy milk again .

Indeed, it's a good idea - you can just eat grass to nourish yourself! Sounds cheap and efficient. Maybe not tasty, but I don't hear cows complaining.

 

[love.christine]

Indeed, it's a good idea - you can just eat grass to nourish yourself! Sounds cheap and efficient. Maybe not tasty, but I don't hear cows complaining.

Personally, I wouldn't want to take that chance. What happens if you eat fake grass? Last thing I'd want is indigestion.

 

[D.Shaffer]

...Forget animal parts.
Just splice in the code that gives me increased long span and regenerative abilities.

 

[Jesus_marley]

you could always get spliced with a Douglas Fir tree.

The up side is that you would live for close to a thousand years and be 100 feet tall.

The down side is that hippies would live in your "foliage" and you would hear "How's the weather up there?" for a thousand years.

 

[megamania]

To use it as the researchers are looking to I would want my dibeaties removed.

As folks here are refering.... flight okay but molting would be a pill and what people that splice with cats for agility and sight- can't be too careful.


The sun

except for vampires, everyone likes the warmth, life giving energy and brightness of the sun. I would become popular! (except the people that hang out with me too long and die of skin cancer )

 

[Ranger REG]

you could always get spliced with a Douglas Fir tree.

The up side is that you would live for close to a thousand years and be 100 feet tall.

The down side is that hippies would live in your "foliage" and you would hear "How's the weather up there?" for a thousand years.

Nah. Don't want them hirsute hippies hanging on my wood.

What about a sequoia?

 

[Relique du Madde]

Lets see... I'll slice myself with the internet for information storage compasity and cerebral processing power.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'd want to be spliced with Bill Gates's bank accounts.

Beyond that, nah, not so much. I'm not perfect, but I wouldn't want to mess with the good stuff that I do have, and I have a healthy respect for the Law of Unintended Consequences.

Or, as implied by Jeff Goldblum's Jurassic Park character:

Dr Ian Malcom

That's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming

Sure, it would be nice if I could metabolize my extra fat at will...but what would that do to the rest of me?