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Deer with own headlights
Worried about the rate of car-on-deer collisions, Genetiate has added jellyfish genes to deer to make Bambi glow in the dark.
While I guess this may be good for drivers, I'm not so sure this is a good deal for the deer. Every driver who manages to stop before hitting a deer with his truck will find it much easier to shoot the thing as it tries to run away. And has anyone thought about the consequences to the night-vision goggle industry? (This passed the initial sniff test at the Museum of Hoaxes, so my "research" to authenticate the story is done...)
(Via Annals of Improbable Research)
Posted by Charles Star on 09/16/2005 | Permalink
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I should point out that, since the Genetiate site claims to have a patent pending on glowing deers, we checked the US TPO patent database and there was nothing there. This doesn't necessarily make it a hoax. Not all patent applications appear in the database; only those that are 18 months old and voluntarily published are. But I suspect that this site is a hoax and possibly a scam as well.
Posted by: carrie | Sep 16, 2005 10:43:34 AM
