Nice article about what it means to be an uncute animal with economic value to humans, or without economic value to humans. The article includes this picture, which looks like something right out of The Matrix:
Horseshoe crabs' blood uses copper instead of iron.
H/t, as usual on Saturdays, to Rocket Science.
Blue blood = ancient alien race, eh? I'm inclined to make a Mitt Romney joke, but it would be unfair given the circumstances.
ReplyDeleteSo the solution to "peak oil" is to domesticate whales and slaughter them for their blubber and baleen? I bet I can get government funding for it, if I forget to mention the last step in the process for "Cetaceans-engineered Clean and Renewable Energy Independence." >:)
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Why slaughter them? We could market it as whale obesity reduction.
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