A few years back scientists were able to find a way to extract the green fluorescent protein (GFP) from a jellyfish. They won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and the result since has been that they’ve been able to make all KINDS of things fluorescent. Yes they really do glow...check this out... Everything from bacteria growing inside artwork, to monkeys, frogs…you name it, it can become fluorescent.
So I’m curious first of all if you all were aware of this? I wasn’t until today…If you could make something fluorescent what would it be? If this was patented into a product that you could buy and then make whatever you want glow what would it be…and yes I do mean ANYTHING….use your imagination…
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Permalink Reply by Belle Rose on March 10, 2013 at 2:30am I'll start...I've always wanted a pink Harley Davidson. I would like to deck it out so that it glows in the dark... the slideshow also listed above gives and idea...Check out the pics. (see the next arrow at the top) It's pretty incredible...I think...
Permalink Reply by Rob Klaers on March 10, 2013 at 4:30am One of the first things they did was make a rabbit glow.. and recently a house cat.
Permalink Reply by Judith van der Roos on March 10, 2013 at 5:03am Maybe Spider Goats so their silk would glow? Some of my fronkeys already do!!
Permalink Reply by Belle Rose on March 10, 2013 at 2:04pm
Permalink Reply by M.M. on March 10, 2013 at 8:24pm I would chose a part of my own anatomy that for most of the time remains covered.
Just for my own amusement.
I've always wanted a Light Saber!
Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on March 10, 2013 at 10:18pm Me, so I'd never be in the dark again.
Permalink Reply by Strega on March 10, 2013 at 10:42pm When radium was first isolated, they loved its glow attributes so much, it was painted on teeth, and all sorts of manufactured items. When the Radium Girls (the ladies who worked in the radium factory) started falling to bits and complaining, the manufacturers tried to blame their sickness on syphilis rather than stop their radium production line. There's a brief wiki synopsis here
I remember as a child, having a pot of "glo-paint" which I'm pretty sure wouldn't be around these days, so I'm not all that keen to play with 'glo' stuff any more.
Permalink Reply by Belle Rose on March 11, 2013 at 12:44am I really liked the artwork in the slide show. I'll take a picture like that of a huge tiger and paint it on my wall with bright purple and black lights....hell yes!
Permalink Reply by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on March 11, 2013 at 11:21am @Judith - good thinking, then we could spot them a mile away, and watch our backs :)
Fingertips.
I thought of that last night after the globe in my bedside lamp blew out and I couldnt finish the chapter I was reading.
Permalink Reply by Cody Soltice on March 11, 2013 at 3:30pm That would be awesome! We'd go back to reading from line to line with our fingers.
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