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jackToday I was introduced to the idea of what may be, in a heated competition, THE weirdest idea I've ever heard to date: glow-in-the-dark jingling prosthetic dog testicles. Unfortunately, a quick google only produced other people talking about how weird it was, not a commercial website to confirm that the idea hadn't jumped straight from "drunken brainstorm" to "internet rumour" without passing through the intermediate stages of "commercial enterprise" and "IgNoble Prize".
(Prosthetic dog testicles, for dog shows, or just for aesthetics, are apparently well attested.)
OTOH, in a no-longer-surprising reality-outdoing-fantasy twist, I joked that it would be easier to do this with genetic engineering, and discovered that apparently this has already been tried with mosquitos:
1. splice standard glow-in-the-dark gene into mosquito male chromosome
2. use a laser to sterilise the testicles, release the mosquitos to displace natural males from the breeding population
3. profit!
Which just goes to show, step 2 in a plan is always important! :)
(Prosthetic dog testicles, for dog shows, or just for aesthetics, are apparently well attested.)
OTOH, in a no-longer-surprising reality-outdoing-fantasy twist, I joked that it would be easier to do this with genetic engineering, and discovered that apparently this has already been tried with mosquitos:
1. splice standard glow-in-the-dark gene into mosquito male chromosome
2. use a laser to sterilise the testicles, release the mosquitos to displace natural males from the breeding population
3. profit!
Which just goes to show, step 2 in a plan is always important! :)
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