Poll of the Day > Blue Dogs found in Russia near Chemical Plant...

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https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/smart-living/blue-dogs-spotted-in-russia-copper-sulphate-exposure-may-be-reason/ar-BB1dE9aI

Cool or Cause for Concern?

both.

I know there are some cats that glow under darklight. scientists were testing to try and cure diseases, and put that trait in to be certain the cat had what they needed for the test... some of their offspring inherited the glow
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Colloidal Silver? Copper Sulfate?

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Krazy_Kirby posted...

I know there are some cats that glow under darklight. scientists were testing to try and cure diseases, and put that trait in to be certain the cat had what they needed for the test... some of their offspring inherited the glow

It's pretty common practice in genetic engineering to attach the gene for "Green Flourescent Protein" (originally found in some jellyfish, does exactly what it sounds like) to the transgene they're trying to express. It's a surprisingly versatile test, and very cheap and easy to perform. Works in bacteria, plants, animals of all sorts...

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Poor doggos :(

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Fun fact, in Russia those dogs wouldn't be considered blue. Their *light blue* is a distinct and different color than plain or darker hues of blue.

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__starsnostars posted...

Fun fact, in Russia those dogs wouldn't be considered blue. Their *light blue* is a distinct and different color than plain or darker hues of blue.

Japan doesn't even have its own word for PINK. it's literally Red plus White.

that would be like English calling "Green" Yellow plus Blue.

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Those poor dogs. Are they actually blue for some reason or did they just get exposed to something is what I want to know

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adjl posted...

It's pretty common practice in genetic engineering to attach the gene for "Green Flourescent Protein" (originally found in some jellyfish, does exactly what it sounds like) to the transgene they're trying to express. It's a surprisingly versatile test, and very cheap and easy to perform. Works in bacteria, plants, animals of all sorts...

Yep, done that many times.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Japan doesn't even have its own word for PINK. it's literally Red plus White.

Momoiro? The word they actually lack is green. Midori is a foreign loanword from what I remember.

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Looks kinda fake. Otherwise the question becomes what negative health impacts might be accompanying that color change (although, I guess, if it was a matter of them just rolling in dust, maybe it's not anything too serious? idk)

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Yep, done that many times.

Momoiro? The word they actually lack is green. Midori is a foreign loanword from what I remember.

all i know is every program i've ever used to try and learn basic Japanese made pink Red plus white. iirc, green and blue didn't even have a distinction.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axHe_BVY_9c

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Guess they had fun rolling in it.

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Its sad to me that Russia has so many stray dogs. Stray dogs in general make me sad. They mostly die of starvation

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Bluey!

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I thought I saw a blue hedgehog near Chemical Plant once, but only for a moment.

Red_Frog posted...

I thought I saw a blue hedgehog near Chemical Plant once, but only for a moment.

Im telling you it was some kind of mutant fox

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__starsnostars posted...

Fun fact, in Russia those dogs wouldn't be considered blue. Their *light blue* is a distinct and different color than plain or darker hues of blue.

still blue
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possible Blues Clues reference??

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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Yep, done that many times.

Momoiro? The word they actually lack is green. Midori is a foreign loanword from what I remember.

Momoiro means peach color, which is different than pink, but I don't know much Japanese.

It's weird that Japan wouldn't have a word for some of these colors, since Korea does, and their languages have been evolving similarly since Japan took over Korea.
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Pikazard1 posted...

possible Blues Clues reference??

was thinking the same thing lol

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__starsnostars posted...

Fun fact, in Russia those dogs wouldn't be considered blue. Their *light blue* is a distinct and different color than plain or darker hues of blue.

No wonder they can't run a functional Democracy.

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lihlih posted...

Momoiro means peach color, which is different than pink, but I don't know much Japanese.

It's weird that Japan wouldn't have a word for some of these colors, since Korea does, and their languages have been evolving similarly since Japan took over Korea.

Not that weird. There are several other languages that didn't distinguish between blue and green either, or didn't until relatively recent times too. Pretty sure purple didn't exist in a lot of ancient tongues either. We can skip the more exotic colors in the Pantone catalogue and the weird shit they come up with for paints and textile dyes now, but plenty of colors we consider relatively basic and common really weren't a thing until modernish times.

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Not that weird. There are several other languages that didn't distinguish between blue and green either, or didn't until relatively recent times too. Pretty sure purple didn't exist in a lot of ancient tongues either. We can skip the more exotic colors in the Pantone catalogue and the weird shit they come up with for paints and textile dyes now, but plenty of colors we consider relatively basic and common really weren't a thing until modernish times.

That's different, I specifically said that Japanese and Korean have been evolving similarly in the past couple hundred years. So it's really weird that Koreans decided to add all these exotic colors to their language while the Japanese didn't.
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lihlih posted...

That's different, I specifically said that Japanese and Korean have been evolving similarly in the past couple hundred years. So it's really weird that Koreans decided to add all these exotic colors to their language while the Japanese didn't.

Wasn't the original Korean language literally destroyed by the Japanese and only recently recreated?

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Wasn't the original Korean language literally destroyed by the Japanese and only recently recreated?

Not at all, no idea where you got that idea. You might be thinking about how young the Korean writing system is. We used the Chinese writing until 1443, when a king noticed that the writing system was way too complicated(Korea used to be a very poor country), and worked with a bunch of people to create a new, simplified writing system.
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Not that weird. There are several other languages that didn't distinguish between blue and green either, or didn't until relatively recent times too. Pretty sure purple didn't exist in a lot of ancient tongues either. We can skip the more exotic colors in the Pantone catalogue and the weird shit they come up with for paints and textile dyes now, but plenty of colors we consider relatively basic and common really weren't a thing until modernish times.

I mean the sky and grass have been around a while I'm pretty sure

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Japan doesn't even have its own word for PINK. it's literally Red plus White.

This is incorrect.

Momoiro (literally "peach-coloured", as Japanese peaches are bright pink) is the Japanese word for pink. You'll also hear a lot of people say "pinku", the English loanword.

Nichtcrawler X posted...

The word they actually lack is green. Midori is a foreign loanword from what I remember.

No, midori is still Japanese. It's more modern Japanese, showing up for the first time roughly 1000 years ago, but it's not a loanword. That said, it's considered a shade of blue (ao) and you'll still hear people refer to green things as ao or aoi (most readily seen in the name of Aomori prefecture, which literally translates to "blue forest").

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nah, them doggos are just weebs

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