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the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Kristine on February 25, 2008, 09:23:06 PM ---How about a web link?
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www.nature.com
--- Quote ---Not if you have your main hero break the cycle - find some kind of referrence to the ancient past that shows what happened and be able to reveal it to the world - It's only negative if you continue it - and of course there is always the oportunity that we will know better next time...
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I'd still find that depressing tbh, and the more so the more failed cycles there were before we got it right.
meg_evonne:
http://www.livescience.com/ <there are always interesting things popping up here. Sometimes though it back fires...
I had a great idea/barely started short story dealing with human body part harvesting from live clones (for story purposes - clones were faulty through genetic engineering with a few troublesome ones that manage to get through the system because of budget cuts. i.e. how do you tell the billionaire without ethics that his daughter's heart is going to have to come from a live sentient clone twin and SHE finds out about it.) It had the best (or worst depending on your point of view) aspects of Lord of the Flies gone corporate on a privately owned island that I was really getting excited about---- It was shortly and completely torn apart by the latest discovery that we would probably be able to grow our own body parts (thus no need for the dumbed down, barely functioning clones) within,well maybe 10 years? Exciting news, but sad for my story line! I'm too practical to think that a corporation would go through the costs to set up, knowing that another, more ethical system would shortly be online. Ahh, I love Corporate Greed stories though....
NPR story this AM... Some huge cave drilled into a mountain in Norway for storing seed. Sorry no link, but it should be on the NPR web site. Immediately I start thinking how are they going to distribute this seed after a major natural disaster, where will it go, who will profit from it, how will a corporation steal access for their own projects... etc. Who decides who has the right to gain access and where will the foodstock go? Who is going to send an army to take it away from the Norwegians? Who will send an army to protect it?
Anyway, livescience is one of my favorite places for info on just about anything that is newly discovered or research reported etc.... and it covers all aspects of science including archeology etc...
Also, did you see the story on the Komona Dragon in Kansas that cloned it's own eggs after 10 years alone? No it wasn't stored seman, either.
Kristine:
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on February 26, 2008, 10:23:43 PM ---http://www.livescience.com/
I had a great idea/barely started short story dealing with human body part harvesting from live clones (for story purposes - clones were faulty through genetic engineering with a few troublesome ones that manage to get through the system because of budget cuts. i.e. how do you tell the billionaire without ethics that his daughter's heart is going to have to come from a live sentient clone twin and SHE finds out about it.) ....
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I like that site - another one I need to pop in on from time to time. See a movie called "The Island" that ran with that concept - hokey in parts but okay entertainment.
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on February 26, 2008, 10:23:43 PM ---NPR story this AM... Some huge cave drilled into a mountain in Norway for storing seed. Sorry no link, but it should be on the NPR web site. Immediately I start thinking how are they going to distribute this seed after a major natural disaster, where will it go, who will profit from it, how will a corporation steal access for their own projects... etc. Who decides who has the right to gain access and where will the foodstock go? Who is going to send an army to take it away from the Norwegians? Who will send an army to protect it?
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Sounds like a worthy post-apocalyptic tale - like a grand scale European 'Jerico'.
--- Quote from: meg_evonne on February 26, 2008, 10:23:43 PM ---Also, did you see the story on the Komona Dragon in Kansas that cloned it's own eggs after 10 years alone? No it wasn't stored seman, either.
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Ah ha! 'Jurassic Park' was right! ...Dragons in Kansas?...This one looks fun too - http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar.htm
--- Quote from: neurovore on February 26, 2008, 09:00:37 PM ---Um, if we are going to do that, I'd kind of like a slightly higher standard of TRUE than this sort of Forteana.
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--- Quote from: neurovore on February 26, 2008, 09:00:37 PM ---www.nature.com
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From the original web site and now yours too - what happened with the technology of that thing
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7119/full/nature05357.html
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Kristine on February 27, 2008, 07:21:52 AM ---I like that site - another one I need to pop in on from time to time. See a movie called "The Island" that ran with that concept - hokey in parts but okay entertainment.
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The Island gave me a great urge to write a setting where there is a dystopia, and some sort of setup by which lucky people get selected to leave it and go to somewhere wonderful, where the shocking twist is that they actually do get to go somewhere wonderful, because having it be that something horrible happens to them has just been done to death.
It's not actually a story, becauses I do not have people or a plot, but it is floating around waiting to accrete bits enough to be a story.
Kristine:
--- Quote from: neurovore on February 27, 2008, 06:02:08 PM ---The Island gave me a great urge to write a setting where there is a dystopia, and some sort of setup by which lucky people get selected to leave it and go to somewhere wonderful, where the shocking twist is that they actually do get to go somewhere wonderful, because having it be that something horrible happens to them has just been done to death.
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lol, how would you set that up - Some secret government agency sends jack booted thugs to the characters house and transport them in the middle of the night - the whole story is the characters trying to escape this horrible fate only to finally be captured and taken to a place where decent people get rewarded for being decent. I don't know if the jaded, cynical world could handle that.
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