Saturday Newspaper, I normally still carrying it around until Monday and so on, because the Newspaper is always so thick that if I only ready it during my travel from one place to another, I could never finish it. But it’s a favorite paper for people who are looking for jobs and other things in the classified. The classified part is so popular that sometimes newspaper stands sell the classified only. People don’t looking for ads would happy to get rid of it and people looking for job don’t really want to know what happen in the world.
Back to the newspaper, there is an interesting article about human monster. Apparently the author of the article said that currently in UK (I hope I don’t get the country wrong!) now, it’s allowed to create chimera by using three out of four ways. If I’m not wrong again, the banned method is to inject animal cell into human embryo, the rest of the three is to inject human cells or DNA into animals.
Chimera is some kind of monster (?!), confirmed it in Wikipedia;
Chimera (mythology), a monstrous creature made of the parts of multiple animals.
Chimera (genetics), a single animal organism with genetically distinct cells from two different zygotes.
So the test is for example to inject human cells into animals like pig etc. It even sounds like a movie to me, but can you imagine that it’s actually legalized to create human-pig and so on and so on? Huayah!
The article also mentioned the animal would look like the animal host, so it should be like ordinary pig, not like Miss Piggy or Jeff Goldblum in The Fly or remember Alien 4? But it doesn’t call experiment for nothing, how many percent that the thing would look more like a human, we don’t know. Imho, it indeed a very scary experiment there. Let’s imagine that human is actually almost nothing without brain. We can’t climb a tree fast. I know few people who can climb straight vertical wall but average people sucks even at climbing ladder. We can’t run fast, there are some torpedo people but normally we are outrun by a lot of animals. People normally can’t swing from tree to tree, and our saliva is not toxic, so if we bite, we can easily beaten by a whack of spatula or shoes on our forehead. And the teethmark, prrrt.. it’s nothing! We can’t fly, we can’t dive, we can’t survive in extreme environment without equipments. But with our brain, we outdo all the animals that can do every sort of things I mentioned, just because we have more advanced brain.
So, imagine a combination of animal and human roaming around us. I might be influenced by movies, oh yes I do, but imagine them being bad. Although pig is actually very intelligent, they might not sound too scary, although they do, and even the idea of were wolf is scary, how about insects and other animals with a lot of capabilities?
Insects is the strongest creature, the only thing that control them is size. The animal that can survive in most extreme cold, heat and condition? Insects. The animal that can produce thousands of offspring? Insects.
It’s a bit far from human pig that looks like pig that is created to support human being, which is what is allowed to do, but I’m just taking my part in talking crap here, and nothing is impossible toh..
Why they say the purpose is to support human being. Of course, except mad scientists, scientists are working to make a better life for human. The news says that in 50 years, all the fish would disappear from the sea, no seafood, no diving, no aquarium, I have my faith that they would come out with something to prevent that (I have to have that faith after I found out trying to abstain from seafood is very hard to do!).
Anyway, scientists found drugs and medications of many diseases in history, although they might have part in creating some new diseases and disasters too.
So, chimera is a plan, to help human in medic. Organ transplants, maybe cells, plasma transplants etc, chimera is considered as a better solution because it should be closer to human than transplant from animals. But imho, the case remains strong.
Pig + Human = Pig Human.
Pig Human à Human = X
X + Human = Y etc..
Would there be genetic revolutions, together with all the chemical and radiation etc etc that we are exposed to the more we are crawling to the future with more and more wars..?
I like a Sci-Fi movie not long ago called The Island, played by Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansen. Although it’s not new, I think the concept is really interesting.
Warning! # Movie Spoiler Below # :
So sometimes in the future, the main characters are actually human clone that themselves don’t realize that they are cloned. They are created as adult, whose their original people are the one who sponsors their being.
For example, I’m rich, and I want to live as long as I could. But of course, I want to enjoy it as being always young and healthy, so I invest on a company that offers me ‘my own spare parts’. If I have liver failure, I can have exactly the same liver that I have now, if I want new skin cell to keep me young, I can have my own etc etc.
I’m very sure if the concept is true, there would be a lot of takers, who doesn’t want to have a spare part? Even hand phone have spare battery, we also have a lot of spare part and gears for our stuff because we don’t want them to die or fail on us.
Back to the movies, these clients who order spare parts are normal people that don’t mean any harms, they don’t even know what they actually order. The company claims that they grow the ‘spare parts’ in vegetative condition, so there is no emotion involved, if I remember it correctly, they even claim to grow part of it, so not as a full body.
However, the fact is, they actually make the human clone from these sponsors and grow them in isolated area. So, these clones, exactly human, like the clients/sponsors, are injected with random memory of their past, all leading to the same story, that they are actually survivor of a disaster happened on earth that involves radiation etc, so the survivors all stay together in enclosed area, can’t have any contact with outside world because it’s dangerous. But things is not completely destroyed outside, there is a place called The Island, where it’s still free from radiation, and offer the sea, the sky and the open nature that those clones never experienced off. Once in a while somebody would win lucky draw to be shipped to live in The Island. When it happens, it’s actually the time for them to be harvested, because their sponsors need their parts, so, unknowingly it’s actually death for them.
The company is very smart here. They choose to grow the spare part as human clone because the organs keep having failures when it was grown in vegetative condition. (So if Pig Human fails, let’s add more human cells @ Human Pig? Ot let’s try it with..uhm..the fly?) By growing them as human, they have several advantages, the clones can basically take care of themselves and they can help running the center too, free labours. Their lifestyle are strict, they only can eat healthy food for obvious reason, they exercise regularly, they are not allowed to be close with one another, the reason, proximity is dangerous because the level of radiation in each person is unknown, smart right…? And they work helping the center to grow other clones without their knowledge. When the company has new client, the new clone would be introduced to the clone society as a person who have just been saved from outside world.
I think it’s a very very interesting and smart sci-fi. With news of clones, goats, dolly, donkey, dog's clones and some rumours of human clones flying around in our reality world, why is it not possible?
Anyway, in human history, movie or reality, human enjoys playing God. It’s known as addictive and attractive temptation, Wars, Murders, Violences, Animal Abuses etc, regardless the scales, everybody is guilty at least one point of a time by playing God, realize it or not.
The conclusion of this heavy post:
Naaaaaah. Don’t be paranoid like me.
I’m a just person who enjoy thinking of What If and What If rather than solving my own problems…
But FYI, Chimera is legalized somewhere in the globe........
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"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
- Stephen King
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