One of the oldest questions in the World answered?

[thatbloke]

See for yourself...

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

Saw this in the paper yesterday, seems a bit feeble.

 

[Wol]

I love the "update" at the bottom!

 

[Huung]

Tbh, it's common sense that you'd need a chicken before a chicken egg... only a chicken can lay a chicken egg, otherwise it's some kind of other egg.

Science wasn't even necessary!

 

[Dragon]

Tbh, it's common sense that you'd need a chicken before a chicken egg... only a chicken can lay a chicken egg, otherwise it's some kind of other egg.

Science wasn't even necessary!

True, and yet the chicken is a genetic mutation of another "chickenlike" prehistoric animal and probably was born in an egg.

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

the Chickasaurus!

 

[Huung]

True, and yet the chicken is a genetic mutation of another "chickenlike" prehistoric animal and probably was born in an egg.

But the egg it was born from was a chickenlike egg, not a chicken egg ;P

I suppose it depends on whether you name the egg after what it's laid by, or what hatches from it...

the Chickasaurus!

Archaeopteryx? xD

 

[Panda with issues...]

Its this kind of sensationalist, yet pointless science that makes it tough to get research grants for work that actually needs doing.

 

[BiG D]

I fail to see what is sensationalist or pointless about researching how eggs are formed so we can use the techniques to form similar materials of our own...

 

[Huung]

I fail to see what is sensationalist or pointless about researching how eggs are formed so we can use the techniques to form similar materials of our own...

Not to piss on the parade, but don't we generally crack eggs open? Where could eggshell-type material be used? Unless you're thinking of making it super thick and using it as some kind of crazy egg armour?

 

[Iron_fist]

many vaccines are cultured in eggs ( i know this as my brother used to be deathly allergic to eggs and couldn't have the MMR because of it), so there are many other possible uses for the protein.

 

[Zooggy]

Hoy,

my brother used to be deathly allergic to eggs

Wait, what? Used to be? How does that work?

(I ask because my father is deathly allergic to egg whites and, after several decades, it shows no sign of going away...)

Cheers,
J.

 

[Gombol]

You can grow out of Allergys somtimes Zoog.

MY reaction to being around too much "Pollen" and stuff used to be puffyness in alot of places. Hell, even went to hospital one day 'cause It was so bad.

Now It's just simple sneezing.