What do they look like?
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Posted on 05/05/2016 10:47:12 AM PDT by Stand Up For America Today
For those of us who remember bits and pieces of Greek mythology, or who play lots of role playing video games, a Chimera was a monstrous hybrid creature often depicted as part lion, part goat, and part snake. In today’s world however Chimeras are very real and in this writer’s humble opinion, very disturbing. The word Chimera today refers most often to animals that are gene spliced with other animals creating a kind of hybrid species. As if this attempt at playing God isn’t alarming enough, human cells are being added to pigs, sheep, goats, mice, and other animals that could potentially blur the lines between the species.
Despite a ban put in place on such research by America’s top health agency the National Institute of Health (NIH), researchers in the United States are plowing ahead trying to grow human hearts, lungs, kidneys and other organs inside goats and pigs for transplant patients. The NIH initiated the ban and ceased funding such research due to the potential to alter the brain activity of animals that have human brain cells introduced into their cellular makeup. In short, what happens when we create extremely intelligent animals? On the forefront of this research, Hiromitsu Nakauchi, a stem-cell biologist at Stanford University says that it is highly unlikely that we will create super intelligent animals if we are only using small amounts of human cells. “If the extent of human cells is 0.5 percent, it’s very unlikely to get thinking pigs or standing sheep,” he says. “But if it’s large, like 40 percent, then we’d have to do something about that.” This quote is very alarming. Knowing human nature’s ability at self control, what prevents a scientist from crossing such thresholds and creating animals that can reason with the abilities of men?
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I sometimes wonder if there wasn’t a civilization that existed between 120,000 and 10,000 years ago that may have even been MORE technologically advanced than OURS that spectacularly self-destructed about 10,000 years ago.
There are too many crazy stories in ancient Indian Texts and other Legends that seem to point in that direction, even the Bible itself makes references to this sort of thing with Babel and Noah and the Nephilium.
What do they look like?
Wait, here is an eyewitness:
“I sometimes wonder if there wasn’t a civilization that existed between 120,000 and 10,000 years ago that may have even been MORE technologically advanced than OURS that spectacularly self-destructed about 10,000 years ago.”
Anything is possible, but I can’t believe that we wouldn’t have found at least *some* large scale evidence by now. Still, the world is a rather large place all things considered ... who knows :-).
Nah, they just up and left. Rumor has it they’ll be back in 2112.
(/humor)
The government has been experimenting with Pigmen since the ‘50’s!!!
Cosmo Kramer
“...creating animals that can reason with the abilities of men”
Not going to happen. Our ability to reason and think the way we do is not the product of brain cells and neural pathways. Rather, they are the means by which our God-given immaterial consciousness manifests itself in the physical world.
How much of NYC would remain after a couple glaciers?
Heck. I’d settle for humans who can reason!
“How much of NYC would remain after a couple glaciers?”
Little on the surface, but lots underground :-). Plus the recession of the glaciers would leave a trail of all sorts of artifacts ... they wouldn’t crush everything into sand.
I’d never doubt that it was possible there was some kind of civilization here long before us. I’m just saying that there is zero evidence of one. While we have our entire planet mapped out and can explain lots of phenomena, we still know relatively little about it. Most of our oceans are still largely unexplored and we certainly don’t know what kind of surprises are beneath our feet.
Still, we haven’t a shred of evidence of any advanced civilization. We can find fossilized dinosaurs and relatively intact creatures frozen for thousands of years from around that time, but we have yet to discover so much as a fragment of an advanced civilization (and by that, I am assuming one that would either be on par with us or more advanced ... though we’d be pretty advanced w/o all of the frigging liberals).
For those of us who remember bits and pieces of Greek mythology, or who play lots of role playing video games, a Chimera was a monstrous hybrid creature often depicted as part lion, part goat, and part snake. In today’s world however Chimeras are very real and in this writer’s humble opinion, very disturbing. The word Chimera today refers most often to animals that are gene spliced with other animals creating a kind of hybrid species.
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