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2003-08-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Secret Master 2003-08-19 4:41:48 PM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ahhh! I thought it was a simple request in my divorce decree...why not give it to her...Yikes, indeed!

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-19 5:01:44 PM|| 2003-8-19 5:01:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "heal"? "dying"? A "genetic ruin"?

OOOOOOH! IT'S CHANGING!

This is a geneticist? Ever hear of mutation, pal? Evolution?

Any of this ring a bell?

Posted by mojo 2003-8-19 5:53:36 PM|| 2003-8-19 5:53:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 And yet sexual reproduction has been around for how long, exactly?

Sounds to me like the professor's taken a ride on the Nutbar Express.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-8-19 6:05:07 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2003-8-19 6:05:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Er, that "Y-chromosome cannot repair itself" bit flies against what I've read. As I understand it, the Y-chromosome has its own internal repair mechanism that can stich it back together in case of damage.

http://newsblaster.cs.columbia.edu/archives/2003-06-19-09-36-19/web/summaries/2003-06-19-09-40-36-077.html

That was published in Nature a few months back. Any researchers out there know what a coup it is to get an article published in Nature - well, this one made the cover!

Posted by Crescend 2003-8-19 6:06:54 PM|| 2003-8-19 6:06:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 There's something very fishy about this article. Don't other mammals share similar characteristics with humans? And yet I have yet to hear of other mammals not having any male offspring.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-8-19 6:22:30 PM|| 2003-8-19 6:22:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 So that's what happened to the dinosaurs.

Posted by Stephen 2003-8-19 8:07:01 PM|| 2003-8-19 8:07:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Better put us guys on the endangered species-- er, endangered genders list right now. I'm gonna get me some sweet government subsidy on account of my suicidal chromos.

Posted by (lowercase) matt 2003-8-19 8:48:39 PM|| 2003-8-19 8:48:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Has he set a date? I'd like to plan ahead.

Posted by tu3031 2003-8-19 9:12:32 PM|| 2003-8-19 9:12:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 monkey's uncles? hahahahaha! But where is the Coffee Alert? I am now wearing a cup! oh that was hot!

What I want to know is with all this genetic technology, why we are just going to sit around for 125000years and let men dissappear. Not enough time to come up with a solution? Or is this another FCC (Feminist Chromazonal Conspiracy) issue?

Next time my wife claims I'm not listening, I'll just blame it on the Y.

Posted by john 2003-8-19 10:33:26 PM|| 2003-8-19 10:33:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Prolly why SETI hasn't heard from anyone...

Posted by .com 2003-8-19 11:15:03 PM|| 2003-8-19 11:15:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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