PIGS FROM OUTER SPACE
This is no hogwash -- sweet and sour pork may have a different taste in your local Chinese restaurant in the future, following news from the Chongqing Academy of Animal Husbandry that China's next manned space flight will carry capsules of pedigree pig sperm in an experiment that scientists (and butchers?) hope will ultimately produce better quality pork.
On its second mission, due in early October, the Shenzhou VI spacecraft will carry half an ounce of pig sperm to where no pig sperm has ever been before. Scientists will then study whether exposure to outer space alters its genetic make-up – with high hopes of bringing home the bacon.
Imagine the following conversation at the Peking Dragon in the not-too-distant-future:
“We’ll go for the sweet and sour pork, please.”
“You want number 10 or number 15?”
“What’s the difference?”
“Number 10 is regular pork, number 15 is pig from outer space. Comes from near Uranus.”
Beam me up, Miss Piggy.
On its second mission, due in early October, the Shenzhou VI spacecraft will carry half an ounce of pig sperm to where no pig sperm has ever been before. Scientists will then study whether exposure to outer space alters its genetic make-up – with high hopes of bringing home the bacon.
Imagine the following conversation at the Peking Dragon in the not-too-distant-future:
“We’ll go for the sweet and sour pork, please.”
“You want number 10 or number 15?”
“What’s the difference?”
“Number 10 is regular pork, number 15 is pig from outer space. Comes from near Uranus.”
Beam me up, Miss Piggy.
posted by antwerpalan at
2:12 am
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home