Scorpions be Climbing in the Windows, Snatching Up Everyone, So Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife

            One of my worst nightmares has been giant spiders creeping around my bedroom, or creeping around anywhere for that matter, or even a swarm of small spiders invading. In case none of you have noticed yet, I do have arachnophobia to a fairly high degree. Although, I kind of found out that when people say arachnids, they do not necessarily mean spiders, in fact, scorpions are a type of arachnid. Recently, some people have discovered the genomes of the scorpions and have isolated some of them that allow scorpions to become immune to their own poison. It actually sounds a lot like our own immunity to stomach acid, I guess not so much immunity as it is mucous covering it. Even though it does not mention a lot of uses for it in the article, I can only begin to imagine the effects it could have on our society.

            The first obvious one coming to my mind, due to the fact that I am a nerd or a geek if you prefer, which is implementing the couple poison genes from scorpions into humans and mixing it with the DNA of humans. Imagine the beneficial effects of this before you start to judge me. Scorpions contain some fairly toxic compounds within their bodies without much adverse effects to themselves, and since they have built up this huge immunity to many poisonous substances, so scorpions are able to ingest many poisonous plants and animals. Imagine, being the reckless teenager that I am, challenging a classmate to a contest to prove your worth, and then walking into the room and to intimidate the opposition, bring a bottle of Clorox and just downing the bottle while munching on some mistletoe as a snack. This would be extremely hardcore and cool that if I saw someone do that, they would immediately become my best friend. In reality, this would help some of the hunger issues, because it would open a whole new window of possibilities.

            On the other hand, this could also be very harmful to people to, although it is a bit farfetched, at least hear me out before you write it off as stupid. With the genomes of these toxins found, it would be easy for someone to just mass produce them, and instead of having Spiderman, we would have Scorpionman, who shoots poison from his fingertips, although, if we figure out the immunity thing, it will not be much of a problem. Even without the immunity thing, the same could be said about finding the antidotes to these poisons, of course, if we have not already. Knowing the compounds in a scorpion and how it combats it will help scientists figure out a couple new ways to combat new poisons.