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Vegeta
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 Posted - 05/08/2007 : 15:47:08
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Something where I can get through a lot of generations pretty quick, But I don't need too much apparatus.
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What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 15:53:32 [Permalink]
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Mice.
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Dude
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 16:00:06 [Permalink]
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Drosophila melanogaster is a good choice. All you need are a temp controlled environment, a few jars, and some fruit to feed them.
C. elegans is a good choice also. Very easy to maintain a population of these... can just freeze them when you need to go on vacation or something.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 05/08/2007 : 16:37:47 [Permalink]
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Gromphadorhina portentosa, the Madagascar Hissing Cockroach.
I kept a roach ranch going for quite a while, to feed to young savanna monitor lizards. They are easy keepers, thriving on vegetable matter and dried cat food. You can tell the sexs apart at a glance. They don't bite or stink and are an excellent school project for grandkids.
Highly reccommended.
Edit: They bear their young live, rather than lay eggs, and this can be observed.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 16:44:19 [Permalink]
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| thanks for the good suggestions people. I'm also interested in flora BTW |
What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 16:50:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Vegeta
thanks for the good suggestions people. I'm also interested in flora BTW
Yeah, I was interested in her for a while too, but then she up and run off with a travelin' preacher. Ah well...
What do you intend for this?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 17:04:53 [Permalink]
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I'm also interested in flora BTW
Plants are a different animal....
Any pollinating plant that you can grow indoors you can probably breed. It takes some knowledge and skill to breed plants though. Not as easy as animals.
The timetables are also going to be longer than for animals. Don't think there are any plants you can grow into a sexually mature organism in 7-10 days.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 17:09:27 [Permalink]
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| Not flora but finches multiply like crazy. |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 17:30:26 [Permalink]
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| How about some bacteria. Sure, you can't pat them (in any meaningful sense of the word), but they can have really short generation times, they can grow on just about anything, and you can acquire them for free. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 17:32:54 [Permalink]
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| Roaches breed fast. And you don't have to do anything. Just leave some food out for them at night... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 05/08/2007 : 18:43:06 [Permalink]
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| Bees, man. And apparently, we're running out. So chop chop. |
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 00:34:19 [Permalink]
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 Love the bees and Mormon answers. |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/09/2007 : 00:38:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Bees, man. And apparently, we're running out. So chop chop.
I went to a Richard Leaky talk tonight and someone asked if global warming was the probable cause of the demise of the bees. His answer was we just needed more of the African kind. They were tougher.
Leaky considers Kenya his home.
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Vegeta
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
238 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2007 : 05:29:23 [Permalink]
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I'm surprised no one suggested tribbles yet...
Bones: They're bisexual |
What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?
"I was asked if I would do a similar sketch but focusing on the shortcomings of Islam rather than Christianity. I said, 'No, no I wouldn't. I may be an atheist but I'm not stupid.'" - Steward Lee |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 05/09/2007 : 05:53:36 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Vegeta
I'm surprised no one suggested tribbles yet...
Bones: They're bisexual
Bones was incorrect. They were, to ruthlessly pick the nit, hermaphroditic.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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I want to take up breeding something
