Re: [DIYbio] Re: Uplifting Ants

If going all gung ho on mutating organisms into little armies then why
choose ants. What the poster wants are Tardigrades (*). They will be
a nearly invincible army(**), impossible to environmentally kill, and
they will also be immediately ready to join Space Force(***) since
they are impervious to vacuum.

(* still, engineer them to eat plastic so that the Earth is not
destroyed in ecological disaster, before the Tardigrades head into
space)

(** viewers insist that Tardigrades are amazingly cute, so therefore
they will be a nearly invincible cute army.)

(*** n.b. the reference to Space Force is a joke since that
organization is a ridiculously dumb idea, just to be totally clear on
that reference.)

On 12/25/18, David Murphy <murphy.david@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have doubts you'd get far with mere war. Ants have been waging endless
> war on each other for millions of years.

>
> As for mutation: you have to think of each hive as a single organism that
> lives for a year or so with the Queen as the reproductive organs. Mutating
> individual workers does you no good.
>
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 7:55 PM Jonathan Cline <jcline@ieee.org wrote:
>
>> Evolution and/or genetic engineering has been a successful strategy in
>> vector control for decades. Ask Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation
>> which has put hundreds of millions of dollars into using it as a
>> solution for various world wide catastrophes like malaria, zika,
>> dengue.
>>
>>
>> On 12/24/18, Raza <etcwar_d@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yeah, there's no way* that* could
>> > go horribly wrong, with how insects tend to wander into human-inhabited
>> > territories at random at delve out new niches for themselves. Probably
>> > worth it?
>> >
>> > On Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 8:39:34 PM UTC, Jonathan Cline wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Evolve ant colonies to collect and/or digest plastic pollution and you
>> >> have a world-saving and trillion-dollar award winning project.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
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>> >> On Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 2:55:15 AM UTC-8, Ozymandias wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> I thought about the following experiment:
>> >>>
>> >>> 2 or more ant colonies
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Any input?
>> >>>


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