Square Watermelons

Discussion in 'Earth Science' started by Success_Machine, Nov 14, 2002.

  1. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    I kid you not: all we need to do is apply selective breeding to obtain high-cellulose seaweed and get a huge feedstock of renewable ethanol fuel for transportation....

    Farmers decorate square-shaped watermelons with ribbons before shipping them to an agricultural cooperative in Zentsuji, western Japan, on Monday June 17, 2002.

    The watermelons, developed to save space in refrigerators, are priced at a whopping 10,000 yen (US$80) each. Some 450 to 500 watermelons will be sent to department stores and other places in Tokyo and Osaka - for display rather than eating.

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  3. UltiTruth In pursuit... Registered Senior Member

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    Hmm...
    I thought they were shaped into squares by putting them in square boxes during growth!
    Are you sure they were developed as a variety?
     
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  5. chroot Crackpot killer Registered Senior Member

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    LOL @ Success_Machine.

    Yes, UltiTruth, the cube melons are not genetically altered or anything -- they're just normal watermelons whose growth was restrained with boxes. An expensive and pointless novelty.

    - Warren
     
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  7. Success_Machine Impossible? I can do that Registered Senior Member

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    Ok so they aren't GM fruit. I didn't know melons could be shaped like that. I should have guessed since bonzai trees are shaped the same way with wire wrapped around their branches.
     
  8. %BlueSoulRobot% Copyright! Copyright!! Registered Senior Member

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    LOL!!! Man, I want me a square watermelon for Christmas!

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    And to think, how much room they would save, because you can stack them up now! Amazing!

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    THE MAKERS OF BONSAI KITTENS ARE EVIL AND DISGUSTING!!! THEY SHOULD HAVE THEIR FLESH BURNED OFF WITH ACID, THEIR EYES RIPPED OUT BY KNIVES, THEIR TONGUES SHREDDED AND GOUGED, THEIR WORTHLESS BODIES FLAYED WHILE THEY'RE ALIVE, AND HAVE THEIR INTESTINES SPILT ON THE GROUND!!!!!

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  9. UltiTruth In pursuit... Registered Senior Member

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    Wanna import some from me? Nice price: Will grow.

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  10. On Radioactive Waves lost in the continuum Registered Senior Member

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  11. chroot Crackpot killer Registered Senior Member

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    Christ, I hope that's a joke. From the best I can tell from the photos, it certainly is.

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  12. Clockwood You Forgot Poland Registered Senior Member

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    nice idea. I will look for that breed for my garden just for novelty.
     
  13. grazzhoppa yawwn Valued Senior Member

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    OMG! that bonsai kitten site is sick and twisted!! They only show the success pics....that site should be shut down, that's disgusting.
     
  14. %BlueSoulRobot% Copyright! Copyright!! Registered Senior Member

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    Holey crap...That site is wrong. I take back everything I said about it being funny...The poor kittens!!! That's disgusting, and inhumane, and evil. God, strike down the asshole who made Bonsai kittens!

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    Yeah, so could you really send me a square watermelon, Ultitruth?

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  15. EvilPoet I am what I am Registered Senior Member

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    Claim: A web site is selling merchandise
    to help people create 'bonsai kittens.'

    Status: False.
     
  16. UltiTruth In pursuit... Registered Senior Member

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    At $80 each, why not? Will learn, grow and sell! Send me the LOC
     
  17. On Radioactive Waves lost in the continuum Registered Senior Member

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    bonsai kitten

    dont trip, the whole purpose of the site was to offend people. if you looked through it enough i'm sure you would have found somewhere somthing to the effect of "none of this is real, we just did it to get a rise out of people"
     
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  19. pumpkinsaren'torange Registered Senior Member

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    watermelon cubed!
     
  20. UltiTruth In pursuit... Registered Senior Member

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    Hmm.. wonder if if we can do the same with Pumpkins... and Oranges- square them off!

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  21. Clockwood You Forgot Poland Registered Senior Member

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    concievably you could develop square chickens.

    I remember that far-side cartoon- the one with stackable livestock.
     
  22. Vortexx Skull & Bones Spokesman Registered Senior Member

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    [provocative]

    Well, they already have bald GM chickens in Israel without feathers, apparently they are more suited for production in countries with hot climate....

    A few steps furher would be to cut the legs and wings out of the genepool (that's considered useless calcium buildup and waste of energy / food that could be directed at creating a more meatier body)

    As chickens heads are chopped off (only in some countries like france they eat the head, or make soup from it), why not create/select a race with short necks, wiothout eyes aers and no larynx.....

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  23. On Radioactive Waves lost in the continuum Registered Senior Member

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    dosnt KFC already have some sort of geneticly altered chicken- somthing with 9 breasts or likewise. i never found out exectly what it was...... nor do I eat KFC
     

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