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Solar Powered Sea Slug

Watch a sea slug eat algae to nab some of its chloroplasts, and then harvest the genes that keep chloroplasts functioning.

  • Bnine75
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  • Date 1/4/2009 8:43:49 PM
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darkfeather : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

darkfeather

18 votes NegativePositive

325 days 20 hours ago...

Imagine a world where HUMANS feed on sunlight! You might think it would be a happy happy place where we won`t have to worry about food anymore, but think again! because as more people survive and begin to reproduce.... we will have wars after wars for other limited resources. A true Armageddon

raithios : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

raithios

17 votes NegativePositive

325 days 18 hours ago...

^ yeah but treehuggers will finally be happy during springtime pollination

chinky005 : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

chinky005

21 votes NegativePositive

325 days 9 hours ago...

humans feeding on sunlight sound like superman to me bro

Sammersd : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

Sammersd

-3 votes NegativePositive

325 days ago...

There is a dude who can feed on sunlight. Hira Ratan Manek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungazing

It`s fucked up, but cool.

whane17 : LVL 11: VP 2: said:

whane17

4 votes NegativePositive

323 days 21 hours ago...

amazing just amazing

Hoemo : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

Hoemo

Hidden (Show Comment) -9 votes

323 days 20 hours ago...

OMGOODNESS, DID YOU SEE THAT SLUG TAKE THAT CHLOROPLAST GENE AND EAT IT UP!? G`WOWZERS. HE WAS MUNCHING THEM NUCLEIC ACIDS UP!

veedub : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

veedub

-4 votes NegativePositive

323 days 19 hours ago...

isn`t Birdman a superhero who needs sunlight? It`s the one with a purple hawk as his trusty sidekick.

Pacifist : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Pacifist

5 votes NegativePositive

323 days 18 hours ago...

Here is a fun idea, 150 years from now, when genetic manipulation has reached its climax, and society has accepted it as a natural way of progression for the human kind, we will be able to fascilitate this behavior and replicate it with human beings, allowing for us to live till the end of our life cycle without ever having to rely on food for survivol. Cool

antibioticman : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

antibioticman

1 votes NegativePositive

323 days 18 hours ago...

.:Spore:.

watersnake6 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

watersnake6

7 votes NegativePositive

323 days 16 hours ago...

the reason it can do this is because it stole chloroplast. we have mitochondria so we can;t do this. But a neat fact if we did we would be green skinned. the chloroplast is what gives the plants their color

We would also need the cycle where is cycles out electrons and gives off oxygen.

xlambda : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

xlambda

3 votes NegativePositive

323 days 14 hours ago...

sprinkle some salt on it!

MANWHORE : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

MANWHORE

-2 votes NegativePositive

323 days 14 hours ago...

Cartman was right! stick food up your ass and shit it out your mouth!

Does that mean if you stick a cucumber in your ass you can harvest sunlight?

shasha : LVL 23: VP 3.2: said:

shasha

3 votes NegativePositive

323 days 9 hours ago...

wow this thing looks exactly like some of the people who regulary comment on this site

bignotoriousd1 : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

bignotoriousd1

1 votes NegativePositive

323 days 7 hours ago...

Go Team Sea Slug!

Phanto : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

Phanto

3 votes NegativePositive

323 days 5 hours ago...

If you give a lawyer`s DNA to the sea slug, will it live on other people`s misery?

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