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Jessica - Feb 27, 2006 9:05:04 am PST #9869 of 10002

If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Are male and female pandas equally disinterested in mating?

Yes, it seems that way:

Currently few males in the zoo population breed naturally. Many show little or no sexual interest in females, while others are very aggressive to females. Females, too, sometimes fail to mate. For instance, females periodically have a "silent heat" in which they go through physiological estrus but do not show any behavioral signs.

tommyrot - Feb 27, 2006 9:06:02 am PST #9870 of 10002

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I see potential issues with the work sex thing, though.

Yes, I am beginning to see that I have not thought things through clearly....

Spidra Webster - Feb 27, 2006 9:18:13 am PST #9871 of 10002

I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Pretend that work is sex, and you are not a panda.

I'm imagining someone changing their computer's startup chime to "BOOM-whacka-whacka-whacka-BOOM-whacka-DOW-DOW!

Jars - Feb 27, 2006 9:21:26 am PST #9872 of 10002

I don't suppose anyone knows what aDNA is, by any chance? I know mtDNA, but this 'a' thing is a new one on me.

TomW - Feb 27, 2006 9:24:13 am PST #9873 of 10002

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

I don't suppose anyone knows what aDNA is, by any chance? I know mtDNA, but this 'a' thing is a new one on me.

Fascinating. [link]

Ancient/Archeological DNA. Think the mosquito in Jurassic Park.

§ ita § - Feb 27, 2006 9:24:15 am PST #9874 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Wikipedia on ancient DNA. Encyclopedia Britannica has nothing.

Jessica - Feb 27, 2006 9:27:19 am PST #9875 of 10002

If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Ancient/Archeological DNA

Neato.

Ugh. The sandwich I had for lunch is not sitting well with me. I wish I'd gotten something else.

Beverly - Feb 27, 2006 9:27:20 am PST #9876 of 10002

Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I love that the article on blonds going extinct had a photo of Six to illustrate "blond".

§ ita § - Feb 27, 2006 9:28:45 am PST #9877 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I love that the article on blonds going extinct had a photo of Six to illustrate "blond".

Talk about yer charismatic megafauna.

Jars - Feb 27, 2006 9:28:50 am PST #9878 of 10002

Ah. Why couldn't they just call it that? For half the article they actually say 'ancient DNA' and the rest of the time it's aDNA. I was feeling very stupid for not knowing what the hell was going on. Although, seeing as how I really should have known that, I still kind of am.

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