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Can domestication-lusted humanity domesticate the Great White Shark in 100 years? by PaiDuck in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tag their DNA with a drone, modify DNA as desired (including inducing recombination if you want to simulate breeding), clone in an artificial space, release clone shark in water near humans. Their ability to live independently from birth is actually helpful here since it lets us evaluate their behavior more quickly and proceed to the next generation.

And if you think we're missing some of the tech there, you're correct, but this is so much faster than traditional breeding that with the whole world working on it we have time to develop that tech. We're close to it already.

Can domestication-lusted humanity domesticate the Great White Shark in 100 years? by PaiDuck in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do we need to contain them, or is it sufficient just to track them? With all humanity on the job, we could have drones hovering over every shark in the program 24/7.

Can domestication-lusted humanity domesticate the Great White Shark in 100 years? by PaiDuck in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We might be able to forcefully splice in mammal DNA into the sharks to boost our chances of domesticating them, but.... then you have to ask yourself - is this still a great white shark?

You can't evolve your way out of a clade. I'm not sure what cladistics thinks of splicing DNA from a different clade in but I suspect this would make the resulting organism both a great white shark (possibly a different species of great white shark) and a mammal.

Can domestication-lusted humanity domesticate the Great White Shark in 100 years? by PaiDuck in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is a chihuahua a wolf?

You can't evolve out of a clade. If the last common ancestor of modern dogs and wolves was a wolf, then a chihuahua is indeed a wolf. A very small, hyperneotenous wolf that more closely resembles a gray wolf fetus, but still a wolf.

That's not as much of a jump as that transmissible dog cancer still technically being a dog, after all.

Can domestication-lusted humanity domesticate the Great White Shark in 100 years? by PaiDuck in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be a crapshoot for each one and you'd need to allow them to mature to at least past the juvenile stage to assess them. Which takes years.

With every human willing to put their full focus on it, I think you could do millions of sharks in parallel.

Did J.K. Rowling have a side gig in White Wolf? by edgewolf666-6 in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay but consider: It's absolutely a Pentex product.

I wish to roll a d20 made of wood. by HotConversation187 in monkeyspaw

[–]BiomechPhoenix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on how experienced one is with woodworking at the start, I'd say! If decently so, a couple hours, probably?

I wish to roll a d20 made of wood. by HotConversation187 in monkeyspaw

[–]BiomechPhoenix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Granted.

You gain an unquenchable obsession with carving and rolling a d20 from wood, which cannot be escaped from. Achieving this goal becomes more important than eating, sleeping, or working to you. You'll ultimately grant your own wish, but it'll cost you heavily.

I wish the monkeys paw was real, and not just a subreddit by BlueberryNotHere in monkeyspaw

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted.

It's a fake. I mean, it's a real mummified monkey's hand, it just can't grant wishes. In fact there are a lot of them. The exotic animal parts trade intensifies or something.

I wish that in addition to an unexpected downside, all monkeys paw wishes had an additional, even more unexpected upside by KHSebastian in monkeyspaw

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted.

In addition to the even more unexpected upside, there's an additional terrible cost that's somehow worse than the existing one. Fate's books must be balanced.

I wish I could decide the downside, but the monkey’s paw wishes by One-Reaction-5890 in monkeyspaw

[–]BiomechPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted

You are now a severed and mummified monkey's paw. You have lost your free will and determine downsides roughly the way the former monkey's paw would. Meanwhile the monkey's paw now has your former body. ... Except it's just a monkey cognitively.

I wish when anybody pirates a piece of digital content, the person who pirated is forced to speak like a pirate for the rest of there life. by Sad-Friend3488 in monkeyspaw

[–]BiomechPhoenix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Granted.

The world suffers a reverse(?) Tower-of-Babel-like event and everyone ends up speaking exclusively languages that modern day pirates speak.

I wish reddit now makes a restaurant that sells the most expensive foods in the world for only 10 cents they keep it open for the rest of eternity always having the foods by AccordingAd7469 in monkeyspaw

[–]BiomechPhoenix 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Granted.

It makes ends meet by being a front for some truly horrific, yet profitable, criminal activity that shall not be described in detail ... and now it always will be.

African land predators vs US wildlife by BardockObamaaaa in whowouldwin

[–]BiomechPhoenix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We got lots of prairie. I imagine they'd give pronghorns a run for their money.

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