Cockroaches Daubed With Yeast As WMD Sensors? 162
Our Man In Redmond writes "OK, yeah, it sounds weird, but it just might work. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have come up with the idea of attaching genetically-modified yeast to the back of a cockroach - or a cockroach-sized robot - and using the yeast to detect chemical or biological agents. The story's in today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. They point out some other possible nifty uses for the yeast-based technology, like detecting diseases by having a patient blow on a piece of paper 'printed' with the yeast."
Problem solved! (Score:5, Funny)
*mumble mumble*
blow... (Score:1, Funny)
now THAT's a blowjob
And how will this pan out? (Score:5, Funny)
2) Government asserts non-cooperation on part of regime under inspection with cockroaches conducting said inspections.
3) ???
4) Democracy!
Yeast Based Technology (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I know one "nifty" technology based on yeast: it's called "beer" and has been around for thousands of years. Hoooray for yeast! ;-)
Need a name for this critter (Score:5, Funny)
I suggest cockroach + robot = "cockrobot"
As an added benefit: "I, for one, welcome our new cockrobot overlords" has a nice ring to it.
Re:Need a name for this critter (Score:2, Funny)
Let's focus, people (Score:5, Funny)
There is one purpose for which yeast, and yeast research, should be put. Beer. Better beer. Beer that tastes great, but is less filling. Beer that I can drink until snookered, then wake up from the next day, hangover free.
Beer.
Any questions?
Re:Need a name for this critter (Score:2, Funny)
Getting the coackroaches back (Score:5, Funny)
Rus
Doctor (Score:4, Funny)
Patient blows.
Doctor: "Ehmmm. You have herpes."
Patient: "What? One blow, and you say I have herpes?"
Re:Need a name for this critter (Score:1, Funny)
Overall, this joke gets a 5/10.
-- Slashdot joke reviewer
Now that's too much (Score:5, Funny)
No limits to human cruelty..
Emmm... (Score:3, Funny)
So if they are still alive when all humans are gone, we'll know it was a really, really good weapon. What? Oh...
I for one.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Getting the coackroaches back (Score:3, Funny)
Or, they'd take the Rumsfeld approach and just hook the detector to the world's tiniest nuclear weapon. The yeast changes color, and BLAM! Problem solved.
Of course then you have to worry about the 40-foot cockroach . . .
Countermeasure (Score:3, Funny)
Hollywood has taught us... (Score:2, Funny)
On a brighter note, it could also spawn a new breed of crunchy luxury beer called "Skuttlebrau"
That's easy... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My baker isn't a terrorist (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Of course... (Score:3, Funny)
your arrogant attitude and dim consideration of your fellow human being is part of the problem, not the solution
you are not better educated about the problems of the world, you are merely drowning in self-righteous teenage-level cynicism about the world
you're actually a dime a dozen, and you suck
get back to us when you grow up, teenager
Re:Aaah (Score:5, Funny)
"Crikey, it's a big one, look at the plutonium on that-" [Camera pans out, mushroom cloud silently expands to the clouds, and another Aussie stereotype dies a long-awaited death]
Re:Need a name for this critter (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Women and children first (Score:1, Funny)
Put them to work!
Is Orkin a Halliburton Subsidiary? (Score:2, Funny)