http://www.genpets.com/index.phpAre Genpets Real?
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Of Course. Genpets are living, breathing mammals. Bio-Genica is a Bioengineering Company that has combined, and modified existing DNA to create the Genpets lineup. Genpets are flesh and blood just like any other animal.
Genpets are packaged like toys though.
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Genpets are designed to be sold on retail store shelves, not traditional pet stores. This is why they are packaged in plastic.
How?
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We use a process called "Zygote Micro Injection" which is quickly becoming a favourable method to combine DNA, or to insert certain proteins from different species. Most notably it was used in 1997 to splice mice with bioluminescent jellyfish (link) and has since been used to create glowing rabbits, pigs, fish, and monkeys (link). Since then, human DNA has been injected into chimpanzees, spider into sheep, and now, Genpets have arrived.
Is bioengineering this far advanced?
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In 2003 Human DNA was successfully combined with rabbit (and other animals), to create successful Chimera Hybrids. Read National Geographic for more information
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 9 June 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)
They could've at least used a less cheesy-acting kid so it was a bit more convincing ;)
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 9 June 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)
Nah, not quite, no nails.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)
Real sales would presumably involve images of actual live moving-around creepy-ass GenPets, as opposed to just plastic-packaged creepy-ass GenPets.
This is like an Aphex Twin video just waiting to happen, isn't it.
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 9 June 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)
I like the notion of the one-year versus three-year lifespan, though! "How long will our child remain interested in this pet before we get to that point where he won't be that broken up if it happened to die?"
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 9 June 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)
this seems clumsy and stupid to me. I'm not sure what its intention is - to frighten? as a "warning"? as a pre-emptive parody it isn't particularly funny...
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 June 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)
I suspect it wanted to be a hoax, but it's failed pretty dismally.
― JimD (JimD), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)