These are custom made, so I wonder if you sent the creator a set of precise specs, you’d get a more accurate molecule back?
bargearsesays
My fiancee has been trying to find me the perfect wedding ring for about four months, I’m so leaving this open for her to find.
thumper1990says
Want! Not as a wedding ring, just ‘coz.
Randomfactorsays
Danger…like my own wedding ring, this one’s not resizeable. Gain weight and you outgrow your own genome.
Louissays
But PZ, if we did that we couldn’t be all superior and pedantic and science nerdy.
Which is clearly half the fun.
Louis
magistramarlasays
I’m just nerdy enough that I love this, but it’s almost 37 years too late.
I wish that I had known about this a few months ago, when my daughter got married.
They are both Cal Tech grads.
Has anyone here seen the “gene pool” at Cal Tech?
It’s a really nice reflecting pool on campus, with a mosaic of DNA strands in the bottom.
evilDougsays
It is very inexpensive for a custom made piece. I’d like to know how it is made (my suspicion is that it is a lost-wax casting from a 3-D printed piece). Making a ring like that out of brazed-together pieces would require incredible skill, for which the selling price would be just plain insulting.
From their web site:
Update: 4-26-13 We received a massive amount of orders for this ring all the sudden so shipping times may be delayed another week or two. We will update if anything changes.
Wonder how that happened.
stevemsays
from the Etsy site:
Update: 4-26-13 We received a massive amount of orders for this ring all the sudden so shipping times may be delayed another week or two. We will update if anything changes.
Have they been ‘phyngulated’?
Awesome ring, regardless. ;-D
stevemsays
re me@17:
typo, typo, typo: pharyngulated, not what I wrote there(in 17)…
Eristaesays
Oooh. If I was in the market for a wedding ring (I think engagement rings are an abomination, but that’s largely because I have trouble wearing rings and don’t want to add more), I would totally put this on my list.
Thanks for reminding me that I miss my wedding ring PZ, stolen from my locker at the Y ;(
vaiytsays
That’s one badass wedding ring, bionerdity or not.
Renésays
Talking about wedding rings, my nun-auntie (“tante-nonneke”) — one of three sisters who became nuns — who worked her whole life as a nurse (obliged to give her salary to the congregation) has made me heir to her profession ring. She was 86 and ailing when we had our last conversation, about my atheism and her Encyclopedia of Mysticism*. I took that gift as a message. And it made me feel proud.
_____________
€100 is a bit expensive, but it is still on my wish list.
Renésays
Well, sorry, “made me heir to.” Make that “let|made me inherit.” Late, and all that (10.30 post meridiem, botelam post mediam).
Both my wife and I also graduated from Caltech. Yes, there are a lot of geeks there.
_
Re. the Gene Pool: and the techers have made every possible variation on the “hey you, out of the gene pool” joke.
fastlanesays
bargearse@11: Don’t be afraid to just ask.
Seriously, I think one of the things that makes my marriage stable is that my wife doesn’t try to ‘leave hints’ or passive aggressive shit like that, she just points out what she likes. I’m smart enough to pick up on that, and even when I’m being dense, a ‘hey, I’d like one of these’ is easy enough for me to figure out….
The ring is pretty cool, although I really like the idea of the iron nickle meteorite metal mentioned too.
Le Chifforobesays
That looks cool, but this bionerd has been wearing a DNA wedding ring for nine years:
Vodka and a toothbrush and a final rinse in clean water.
I wonder if they could make one with the ‘evo-fish’?
Eristaesays
@buddhabuck
*peers at the ring some more*
Aww, I think maybe you’re right and I was looking at it wrong. *sniffle*
David Marjanovićsays
Seriously, I think one of the things that makes my marriage stable is that my wife doesn’t try to ‘leave hints’ or passive aggressive shit like that, she just points out what she likes. I’m smart enough to pick up on that, and even when I’m being dense, a ‘hey, I’d like one of these’ is easy enough for me to figure out….
*like*
bacterial DNA is typically circular.
I’d even put it the other way around: DNA is typically circular; only a few viruses, a few bacteria, and Eukaryota as a whole have managed to evolve linear genomes.
Holy crap that’s awesome
Apparently available in gold or platinum too for the big spenders.
no true bionerd would accept this rendition.
Major & minor grooves, please.
How much of it is junk DNA?
If I had extra money, I’d get it for myself.
And if you get divorced, you just add helicase.
There is also someone who sells wedding rings with the soundwaves of your beloved saying “I do” on it, or anything else you’d want them to say.
Love it, although I have to agree with Chas. It needs Proper Detail.
Louis
Not bad. But being astronomers, my wife and I went with nickel-iron meteorite.
These are custom made, so I wonder if you sent the creator a set of precise specs, you’d get a more accurate molecule back?
My fiancee has been trying to find me the perfect wedding ring for about four months, I’m so leaving this open for her to find.
Want! Not as a wedding ring, just ‘coz.
Danger…like my own wedding ring, this one’s not resizeable. Gain weight and you outgrow your own genome.
But PZ, if we did that we couldn’t be all superior and pedantic and science nerdy.
Which is clearly half the fun.
Louis
I’m just nerdy enough that I love this, but it’s almost 37 years too late.
I wish that I had known about this a few months ago, when my daughter got married.
They are both Cal Tech grads.
Has anyone here seen the “gene pool” at Cal Tech?
It’s a really nice reflecting pool on campus, with a mosaic of DNA strands in the bottom.
It is very inexpensive for a custom made piece. I’d like to know how it is made (my suspicion is that it is a lost-wax casting from a 3-D printed piece). Making a ring like that out of brazed-together pieces would require incredible skill, for which the selling price would be just plain insulting.
From their web site:
Wonder how that happened.
from the Etsy site:
Have they been ‘phyngulated’?
Awesome ring, regardless. ;-D
re me@17:
typo, typo, typo: pharyngulated, not what I wrote there(in 17)…
Oooh. If I was in the market for a wedding ring (I think engagement rings are an abomination, but that’s largely because I have trouble wearing rings and don’t want to add more), I would totally put this on my list.
Two tone
Gold
@ChasCPeterson/3
Oh! And here is one with major and minor grooves (completely different ring)
Titanium DNA Ring
(sorry for the multiple posts)
@Eristae @21 That Titanium ring doesn’t look like it has major and minor grooves to me.
Head-tail telomere fusion? Would this be at all possible IRL? Möbius DNA?
Questions, questions.
bargearse@11:
Congrats and good luck!
Alice and Bob cutting their Möbius DNA in half, and then reassemble it in their offspring, I’d call that tying the knot.
Thanks for reminding me that I miss my wedding ring PZ, stolen from my locker at the Y ;(
That’s one badass wedding ring, bionerdity or not.
Talking about wedding rings, my nun-auntie (“tante-nonneke”) — one of three sisters who became nuns — who worked her whole life as a nurse (obliged to give her salary to the congregation) has made me heir to her profession ring. She was 86 and ailing when we had our last conversation, about my atheism and her Encyclopedia of Mysticism*. I took that gift as a message. And it made me feel proud.
_____________
€100 is a bit expensive, but it is still on my wish list.
Well, sorry, “made me heir to.” Make that “let|made me inherit.” Late, and all that (10.30 post meridiem, botelam post mediam).
It looks crazy to keep clean.
@magistramarla :
Both my wife and I also graduated from Caltech. Yes, there are a lot of geeks there.
_
Re. the Gene Pool: and the techers have made every possible variation on the “hey you, out of the gene pool” joke.
bargearse@11: Don’t be afraid to just ask.
Seriously, I think one of the things that makes my marriage stable is that my wife doesn’t try to ‘leave hints’ or passive aggressive shit like that, she just points out what she likes. I’m smart enough to pick up on that, and even when I’m being dense, a ‘hey, I’d like one of these’ is easy enough for me to figure out….
The ring is pretty cool, although I really like the idea of the iron nickle meteorite metal mentioned too.
That looks cool, but this bionerd has been wearing a DNA wedding ring for nine years:
Double Helix Wedding Ring
Bonus nerdpoints: 1. It has major and minor grooves. Also, bird heads.
2. I bought it from the guy who made Indiana Jones’ bullwhip.
bacterial DNA is typically circular.
@Le Chifforobe:
[blockquote]2. I bought it from the guy who made Indiana Jones’ bullwhip.[/blockquote]
You win at geek cred.
And I lose at blockquoting.
Vodka and a toothbrush and a final rinse in clean water.
I wonder if they could make one with the ‘evo-fish’?
@buddhabuck
*peers at the ring some more*
Aww, I think maybe you’re right and I was looking at it wrong. *sniffle*
*like*
I’d even put it the other way around: DNA is typically circular; only a few viruses, a few bacteria, and Eukaryota as a whole have managed to evolve linear genomes.
DM: yep, that’s better.