Poll of the Day > Can scientist genetically modify the ultimate snake?

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Like take all the best parts of the best snakes and make the ultimate snake?

and give it thumbs

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And make it fly...
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It would take an army of genomes to stop it.

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Do you think love can bloom, even on the battlefield?

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Sitting in the market
I was playing on my flute
Lady snaky, like to shake it
Digging to the groove
Hypnotizing, paralyzing
Going into trance
I count from ten, and back to one
And then you start to dance
Shaky shaky shaky snake
Oey oey oey
Shaky shaky shaky snake
Oey oey oey
Shaky shaky shaky snake
Oey oey oey
Shaky shaky shaky snake
Oey oey oey

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Snakes don't have parts they're like all snake.

And then put it on a plane so a guy can yell he has had enough of snakes.
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The ultimate snake already existed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoboa
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well if you add rattlesnake in the tail that will decrease sneak but Im sure you want full poison potential firstly?

The ultimate snake already existed.

https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Big_Boss

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Depends on how many skill points they have to work with. I'm assuming it's max level?

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If it bites someone, do they get snake powers?

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

The ultimate snake already existed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoboa

They weren't very ultimate if they all died, now were they?

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Spider snake, spider snake, it's the amazing spider snake, does it crawl, no it's slithers, but it shoots webs from it's mouth. Watch out here comes the spider snake!!

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Make it attack via the anus.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nazm3_OXac

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If you kill every snake except one the last snake is the ultimate snake.

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"Best" how? Like, most dangerous? Most suitable to be a pet? Most likely to star in a cheesy, Sy-Fy, horror flick?

Whatever the case, I'd guess that given enough time, yea. Science/scientists can probably genetically manipulate most any creature to create a synthesized one with specific traits that one could consider an "ultimate snek".

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No, because desirable traits can be contradictory. The easiest example is size, since large size conveys certain benefits, but so do mid and small sizes.Unless the snake could also shapeshift -- which is likely a physical impossibility if it comes to significantly changing overall mass -- you can't simultaneously have certain traits.

Plus, unless you're engineering the thing from scratch, I'm not sure how viable it'll be to combine certain things. And the perfect snake would need to be a chimera. It would need multiple kinds of adjusting venom (to reduce the efficacy of anti-venoms by having multiple types and changing types). It'd need enough size to be an effective constrictor (and, as a general rule, snakes tend to either have venom or constrict, but hey generally don't do both). Camouflage would be useful. An extending hood would have certain advantages. It would benefit from having a tail that at least somewhat resembles its head (although that's more of an anti-predator adaptation). And, of course, they'd need a poisonous quality so that they'd be harmful even in death.


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