From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 05:14:36 MDT
> > But displaying green skin alone would not satisfy me. How much advanced
gene
> > engineering would it take to turn haemoglobin in chlorophyll, so we
could
> > use green skin to turn sunlight into energy? I remember, both are
>
> Given the skin surface, that wouldn't be more than a few % of your
> baseline metabolism.
I see, so it wouldn`t be worth the effort.
> One could engineer unfoldable 'wings',
What do mean by wings and what functions should they have in connection with
this picture?
> but it seems
> much cleaner to create a race of tree vampires, attaching to engineered
> trees with a well defined interface (water, glucose, essentials,
> minerals).
Tree vampires! Sounds cool. I guess you think they suck off the energy from
trees and then we milk the vampires? Sounds like a great business idea.
Maybe you should sell it to the Green Party or run a start up yourself. Want
a licensee for Northern Germany and the Baltic countries?
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