Well, first off, after two months or so of bumming the Anime Nano feeds, I’ve finally come up with a short list of blogs that I seem to click through regularly, so I’ve updated my blogroll to the side to reflect this. But considering Nano itself is on the list, I end up reading a lot more blogs than that since I’ll generally at least skim anything with an interesting title.
Anyway. I found this strange and slightly disturbing article via Slashdot today. There are people trying to combine human with animal DNA. Seriously, what the hell? Okay, okay, so despite what Slashdot implied, they weren’t actually trying to make crazy mutant hybrids — they were trying to see if mixing the DNA would enable them with a more reliable way to grow stem cells. I still find that goal kind of questionable though; even if the experiment had resulted in living stem cells, would they have been able to grow into anything useful? If you’ve suffered third degree burns, would you want a skin graft with skin grown from human-cow hybrid cells? o_o
I’m not really sure anymore what made the catgirl (and catboy, and various other hybrids) attractive in the first place. I find it especially puzzling when so much of the anime community seems to look down at the furry subculture. I don’t think many people ever considered the fantasy any more than just a fantasy with no scientific plausibility whatsoever, but it’s still kind of a relief to know that it’s now proven not to work. I still never thought anyone would be crazy enough to try it for real though.
If catpeople ever came to be, I’m pretty sure they would take over the world.
Damn right they’d take over the world. Increased physical aptitude (sight, hearing, smell, reaction time) as well as the most powerful weapon of all: MOE (at least for the girls.)
I’d say the guys are pretty moe too. I mean, just look at all the little girly men in Loveless. The only thing is intelligence — would they be stupider than humans? The same? Smarter? I have a hard time seeing the latter… Then again, I guess Ultra Pepe (a la Invader Zim) did okay with no brains.
I feel honored to be on your reading list… :)