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1) The oceans are awash with
bioluminescent microbes, many of which
flash when disturbed. Indeed, some of
them are used to measure turbulence and
shear in liquids, since their light output
directly reflects the local movement of the
liquid.
2) There are creatures that can live in the
nastiest of environments, including highly
acidic waters.
3) Therefore, we ought to be able to find a
bioluminescent microbe that can survive
modest levels of acidity and ethanol.
4) Most living things are edible.
So. By selective breeding from a
promising starting point, we develop a
bioluminescent microbe which is happy in
wine. A few drops of the culture added to
a humble Pinot Grigio would transform it
into a swirling light show. A dash added
to a sparkling wine would add entrancing
scintillae to every bursting bubble.
tequila worms.
http://www.straight...ssics/a990702b.html
[pyggy potamus, Dec 18 2007]
Glowing kittens
http://news.yahoo.c...loning_071212210021
Bacteria shouldn't be that tough. [gisho, Dec 20 2007]
florescence in beverages
http://chemistry.ab...the-dark-drinks.htm
Absinthe mentioned [dentworth, Dec 21 2007]
Bioluminescence
http://www.answers....nescence?cat=health
[quantum_flux, Dec 27 2007]
Bioluminescence (Molecule and Reactions)
http://www.answers....ciferase?cat=health
[quantum_flux, Dec 27 2007]
GM Glowing Tobacco Plant
http://www.answers....g-tobacco-plant-jpg
[quantum_flux, Dec 27 2007]
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Nice. I have a bottle of champagne style plonk in the fridge, but it's sparkled with 24K gold leaf. One that also glowed in the dark would be a best seller. |
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[+] you could make money off of this thing [MaxwellBuchanan]... the tequila worm people will probably be the first to try out your glow wine. |
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I was attacked by the Tequila Worm People in a nightmare... |
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I'm just glad they don't put a specimen of Mimus polyglottos in each bottle... though it should keep the worms under control. |
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//I have a bottle of champagne style plonk in the fridge, but it's sparkled with 24K gold leaf//
Sounds like a nightmare if you've got old-fashioned amalgam fillings. |
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[Una] An embalmed bird in each bottle? I envision the bottle being just wide enough for the bird and each time the bottle is tipped the bird slides to the mouth and liquor pours out the beak. |
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Pretty darned close to magic genetic engineering. But + for the nice pun "sin 'til late" = scintillate. |
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Very nice. But sp. "'till'". |
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//Very nice. But sp. "'till'".// No, sp. " 'til"
(contraction of "until"). Till is a verb
meaning to plough, or a device for
handling cash transactions. |
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//Pretty darned close to magic genetic
engineering.// Wellllllll, OK. Though
to be fair, I did suggest selective
breeding, and it's fairly plausible.
Perhaps. |
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Incidentally, that raises the question of
whether all GM ideas should be
considered magic. If you suggest
creating a chicken/spider hybrid to
provide more drumsticks, that would
indeed be magic. On the other hand, if
you propose to engineer more essential
amino acids into wheat gluten, that's as
reasonable a proposal as any
mechanical invention. Just curious as to
where the "magic" threshold lies in
relation to GM. |
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Ah, [jscottpete], but these are no ordinary birds, stuffed into bottles. |
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Mimus polyglottos is the North American Mockingbird. These would therefore be Tequila Mockingbirds. Mockingbirds are also known to be voracious consumers of worms. |
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I try to only sin 'til eight. Kids and all... |
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(I also try to only split infinitives where necessary for the pun of it) |
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[Una] I had wondered why you chose such a specific species of bird. |
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I have corrected people concerning the ' 'til/till ' question for years. It makes sense that it should be ' 'til ' as that is the appropriate abbreviation of the word 'until'. |
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But do a Google search:___'til till___ |
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//I have corrected people concerning
the '
'til/till ' question for years.// That's a
pity,
because it's actually " 'til". I appreciate
that Google may be the ultimate arbiter
on
many topics, but the OED disagrees on
this
point. Webster accepts "till" in the
sense of "until", but Webster accepts
many strange things. I'll stick with
English usage 'til someone can convince
me otherwise - it's that simple. |
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Perhaps all the Googly instances of "till"
are from people whom you have
erroneously corrected over the years? |
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That caused some sort of atavistic twitch, deep in my grey matter. |
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//Incidentally, that raises the question of whether all GM ideas should be considered magic.// |
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Of course. We're magical types here at the General. |
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PRESTO! Ooh there's another car... |
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I'm not implying that I just saw instances of 'till' in a google search. I read several pages that Google brought up on the subject matter. Seems both are acceptable. |
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[linky] Making an organism glow actually isn't that hard. If we can find something that thrives in wine without ruining the taste, a glowing version should be easy. |
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[jscott] ...in which case, you've
corrected many people unnecessarily
"for years". In the UK, "till" would be
corrected to " 'til" by any copy-editor.
In the US, they'd presumably be happy
with either. |
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[gisho] The aim is not so much to make
the drink just glow, but to sparkle when
disturbed (for example, by bubbles or
by being drawn through a straw). For
this, you want mechanosensing
bioluminescent beasts, such as many
marine biolominescent microbes. |
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////specific species //
That caused some sort of atavistic
twitch, deep in my grey matter// |
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Quite. And if one had a group of very
unpreposessing creatures - perhaps a
number of related species of mundane
mouse - would they constitute a sort of
generic genus? Incidentally, my favourite
genus is a group of sea-slugs called
Cafeteria. |
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Cafeteria got its name because someone spotted a sign in Denmark? when they were struggling to classify it, I think. |
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Mine is an extinct giant python, found at Riversleigh, Australia and named Montypythonoides riversleighensis by Dr Michael Archer. Killjoy taxonomists have now renamed it Morelia. |
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I also like Indicator indicator, the honeybird of Africa, which leads people and honey badgers to beehives then feeds on the nest after their criminal accomplices have broken into it and robbed it. |
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The genus Cafeteria got its name through
some problem with Greek/Latin. It was
meant to be Kafeteria, but for some reason
that's not allowed, so it became Cafeteria.
There's also a genus of orchid
called Hysteria. |
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Not according to the guy who named it: |
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//Cafeteria roenbergensis Fenchel & Patterson, 1988 (bacterivorous zooflagelate) Patterson said the name "was prompted by a pink neon sign affixed to a wall on hostelry in Roenbjerg (Denmark) which was illuminated just as the authors were about to give up on finding a good name for one of the most significant consumers in the world."// |
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You'd trust the word of a man who named
a genus "Cafeteria"? |
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Well, he was wearing a white lab coat... and he said he was a scientist. Did I do a bad thing? <flutters eyelashes> |
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// Did I do a bad thing // |
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Yes, but only in a Biblical sense .... |
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I've never been to either Sodom, or Gomorrah, [8/7] |
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Maybe you coveted your neighbor's house? |
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It's not a house, it's a puny. |
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Welcome back, UB. Wasn't the same without ya. |
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As far as the idea goes... pinot grigio? Thanks but no thanks. I don't particularly care for wines as is, but that stuff is just plain nasty! (I know, I know, to each their own...). I do think this would would go quite well in orange curacao or triple sec, though. The orange tint would be well complimented by a little luminescense. Same with midori or green chartreuse, with their vibrant shades of green. This would be a spectacular hit in the world of liqueurs, I think. |
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[UB] please, go easy on the eyelash
fluttering. It makes me nervous.
Appreciated. |
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//I think this can work// Possibly so, but I
refuse to delete it unless you can _prove_
it's a workable idea. |
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I don't think there's an m-f-d tag for "possibly might actually work"... |
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Well you're GM'ing the stuff, could you not do something to the little critters to help prevent a hangover? [+] |
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We're not actually GMing anything, but
we'll see what we can do. |
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