Oliver ,'Conviction (1)'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Creating chimeras is legitimate and useful scientific research; it's really happening. Of course, it isn't with the intent of creating monstrous half-animal/half-human
Well, speak for yourself.
Seriously, that's a good point though. There is some valuable research at risk. One of the reasons for splicing human DNA into animal cells is to skirt around having to use human stem cells (I think there is some research to that purpose, but I don't have a source at the moment)
it isn't with the intent of creating monstrous half-animal/half-human
"Monstrous" is such a loaded word. Can't we just call them Chimeran-Americans?
On CBS last night, they covered Woodruff and Vogt returning to the US, and they mentioned they were only two of about 24 injured people on being transported on the flight (the rest being injured military people) and that there's flights like that all the time (weekly, I think was the word they used). Very sobering.
Well, speak for yourself.
Hush. They have to say that, to maintain public support. But in their secret meetings and isolated research facilities (such as the one run by Dr Moreau) they can be more open about their goals.
Sorry about the longness, I just wanted to share some thoughts about it.
Gud, I appreciated it all hugely.
I have my doubts about this. I suspect when it comes to funding the idea will wither away.
Yuh. My eyes were already rolling forever, but this is where they fell right out of my head. The basic science research, the 70,000 new teachers, the this and that and the other, all simultaneous with the $14 billion permanent tax cut. I can't quite see how he expects to manage it unless he just plans to take advantage of being Commander in Chief of the US Mint and print a shitload more money, and that way lies betwixt-wars Germany, with people trundling a wheelbarrow of paper money to the grocer for a loaf of bread.
Also, you know, what Dana said, about the devastation of the Gulf Coast and the destruction of New Orleans and the total fucking lack of accountability and total fucking lack of interest in any serious attempt to make any of it better.
Blarg. Now my stomach hurts.
I think it's too early to tell about Woodruff, based on what they've told the public. Until the man wakes up and they can do some diagnostics, they can only make the vaguest of guesses. I mean, so far all they know is he can feel in his extremities and his brain isn't swollen any more (which is good, it went down fast). Whether he'll have to relearn to walk and talk is a question for a couple of weeks from now. The brain is tricksy, and some people with shockwave trauma only, no wounds, have serious problems, whereas there was some historical guy who took an iron bar through the head and seemed unaffected.
Vogt seems to be doing okay, on the other hand.
On CBS last night, they covered Woodruff and Vogt returning to the US, and they mentioned they were only two of about 24 injured people on being transported on the flight (the rest being injured military people) and that there's flights like that all the time (weekly, I think was the word they used). Very sobering.
I believe that for every lethal casualty in Iraq there are about 10 non-lethal casualties.
Whoops. I looked up Phineas Gage (iron bar dude) and he was affected mentally. The surprising part was his lack of dying. [link]
If your plantains are potatoey you're eating the wrong ones, or too soon. They're so much sweeter than bananas. They're okay boiled, but fried in thick slices they're breakfast candy. That was the food we'd get in trouble for as kids--we were always obsessive about their fair allocation, and my mother hates when you count food.
Get Jamaicans near a buffet with fried plantains, and you'll see a happy people.
I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don’t like it
What’s with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies
Maybe you don’t like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Isn’t it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?
-- Jonathan Coulton, "Skullcrusher Mountain"