Isn't science amazing!? There isn't a day that goes by where I don't read something new, from black holes and charming quarks, to astonishing information about how our body works, headlines on cloning, and new information on disease prevention.
We live in an amazing time. My grandfather had one foot in the horse and buggy era and the other planted firmly at a time when men rode rockets to orbit the earth. I can not remember a time when my family didn't have both television and radio bringing information into the house.
So, you can imagine my amazement at the latest breakthrough in technology. I was grocery shopping. I picked up carton of eggs, and lifted the lid to make sure none of them was cracked. On each egg was a line of red print saying "Use By Sept. 24."
That's just incredible! Scientists have tinkered with hens and found a way to get them to print out freshness dates when they lay eggs. They must be using nanotechnology to line the pigment up in the shell, but I can't figure out how they change the date. I guess I'll have to do some surfing. Maybe they have engineered it so that chickens have a computer chip passed on to them when they are just a yolk.
I bet the chickens are strutting around thinking, "It's Tuesday. We get extra grain on Tuesday." Or, "Four more weeks, and they'll let me out into the yard!"
I wonder if they try to warn the turkeys when Thanksgiving is coming, or if they keep it to themselves.
It's a great invention. Now we'll never have another stale egg again.
Comments (5)
I'm guessing they just taught the chickens how to read a calander and how to write. Now, don't ask me who designed the pen they use.
Posted by Wichi Dude | September 1, 2004 12:45 AM
Posted on September 1, 2004 00:45
Can't ya just see them all sitting at little desks trying to figure out how to use pencils??
Posted by Buffy | September 1, 2004 10:56 PM
Posted on September 1, 2004 22:56
Bet they have an HP Laser writer of some sort!
Posted by Cop Car | September 2, 2004 7:41 AM
Posted on September 2, 2004 07:41
...it's not the chicken who does it...it's a little man who is paid to live *inside* the chicken and he writes on the eggs as they pass him by...
...don't you kno nuffink...
Posted by billy | September 3, 2004 6:02 AM
Posted on September 3, 2004 06:02
Doesn't everybody, Cop Car??
Billy, you English are SUCH know-it-alls! I suppose you'll be telling me it's because you guys have been around so long. Nuffink.....I know nuffink....
Posted by Buffy | September 3, 2004 12:59 PM
Posted on September 3, 2004 12:59