Good Idea: Scientists Making Some Giant A** Ants
January 9, 2012 at 4:54 am by errcorr
That title is super professional and all, because that’s what I aim to bring you here at the Weekly Geekly… High class journalism with flair. Minus the journalism and the flair, with a little added debauchery and duchebaggery.
It’s as if we haven’t effed up the world enough by doing everything we can to play god and one up nature. It is as if. As if.
That was a throwback to the 90′s hit Clueless and the word throwback is the segue to our next point. These lab coat wearing picnic haters scientists, are doing a throwback to ancient ants by doping regular ants up with hormones that play on old genetic markers… You know what, eff this. They’re huge. That’s all you need to know. Because, let’s be honest, if I tell you any more, you’re going to think “well that sounds sciency and cool.” And that’s exactly what they want you to think. They want to say sciency things and make you believe that everything they’re doing is legit (is using the word sciency twice, and eff three times, in one blog post too journalistic?). They say stuff like…
Authors Dr Rajendhran Rajakumar, from McGill University [not to be confused with University of Phoenix], Canada, and colleagues wrote: ‘We uncovered an ancestral development potential to produce a novel supersoldier subcaste that has been retained throughout a hyperdiverse ant genus that evolved 35 to 60 million years ago.’
The results suggest that holding on to ancestral development toolkits may play an important role in evolving new physical traits, say the researchers. [via. Daily Mail]
to keep you from thinking, “Holy sh*t! Scientists are making giant ants with giant friggin’ pincers that will one day take over the world!” Because why else would they possibly do such a thing. What is the point of making giant ants? Explain this to me, please Dr. Raj Raj.
What do you think about these insect beasts?
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