BUG RUBBER
Key quote, which we are quoting here only because it sounds dirty: "I remember running around the lab that day showing it to everybody, saying 'Here, feel this!'," he laughs.
(Thanks to Russell Mc)
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October 17, 2005
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wow. footnotes. FIRST
Posted by: queensbee | October 17, 2005 at 02:22 PM
Hmmm... now, if we were to implant this stuff into the boobs of the previous post, why, the mind boggles!!
Posted by: Mr. Completely | October 17, 2005 at 02:25 PM
I am now imagining entire manufacturing plants which get their raw materials from fruit flies. I am also imaginging PETA getting involved, because obviuosly these fruit flies will be living in cages, crammed 4 or 5 to a cage, living in terrible conditions, and getting payed far less than what they can survive on.
Posted by: Schadeboy | October 17, 2005 at 02:26 PM
BUG RUBBER - AGNFARG
RUG BUBBER - not-so-much.
Posted by: sct72 | October 17, 2005 at 02:26 PM
No, I don't know why.
Posted by: sct72 | October 17, 2005 at 02:27 PM
aka "insect prophylactic"
Posted by: blurkerette | October 17, 2005 at 02:32 PM
wasn't Robin Williams in this movie? (or for the geezers, Fred McMurray)
Posted by: insomniac | October 17, 2005 at 02:38 PM
The steps in making Bug Rubber sounds complicated. Can you imagine spending time collecting flea juice so that you could make a better kind of rubber? How do these scientists find the time to care?
Posted by: melody | October 17, 2005 at 02:39 PM
Keep on flexing
Posted by: MOTW | October 17, 2005 at 03:03 PM
Am I the first one to note that they inject the 'material' into E Coli???
Science press conference: "Good news, gentlemen - I'm here to announce that we've perfected a natural source of flexible material that will last a lifetime! The bad news is, it smells like shi#..."
Posted by: Candy Tutt | October 17, 2005 at 03:13 PM
I ran around my office once yelling 'Here, feel this.'
I was fired shortly thereafter. The two things might have been related.
Posted by: wolfie | October 17, 2005 at 03:16 PM
...his team isolated a portion of the resilin gene from the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster, and inserted it into Escherichia coli bacteria.
Man, if I had a dime for every time I heard THAT one...
Posted by: Brainy Jello | October 17, 2005 at 03:50 PM
I just liked the idea of repeated flexing....yep...repeated flexing....repeated flexing....repeated flexing....repeated flexing....repeated flexing....
Posted by: russell | October 17, 2005 at 04:19 PM
{off to the cold shower}
Posted by: russell | October 17, 2005 at 04:20 PM
'Tapping' insects?
First hog porn, now this...
Posted by: jamester | October 17, 2005 at 06:11 PM
Brainy - that was my favorite part too, especially because the guy was named Elvin!
And, IMO, that's the seriously dirty part of the article - once you start inserting things into other things, well - where does it end???
Posted by: Eleanor | October 17, 2005 at 06:15 PM
Say "bug rubber" fast five times...
Posted by: Bulova | October 17, 2005 at 07:47 PM
bugrubberbugrubberbugbubberbubbubber...DANG!
Posted by: AlanBoss | October 18, 2005 at 12:44 AM