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The man who tried to live as a GOAT: Researcher transforms himself with prosthetics to follow a herd
The Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 8/14/5 | By Ellie Zolfagharifard

Posted on 08/14/2015 4:36:33 PM PDT by dead

In his quest for a simpler life, one man has transformed himself into a goat.

Thomas Thwaites, a 34-year-old researcher from London, has spent the past year creating prosthetics that allow him to roam around on all fours.

He’s studied their behaviour, learned their way of communicating and even attempted to create an artificial goat stomach to allow him to eat grass.

His efforts, funded by the government, culminated in a three day trip to the Swiss Alps, where he lived as a goat, roaming the hills with a herd.

Thwaites, who is interested in transhumanism, believes not everyone will want to become a cyborg in the future.

Biorobotics, he told Motherboad, could be used by people to de-volve instead of evolve.

‘I initially wanted to be an elephant, but it wasn’t going very well,’ said Thwaites. ‘I visited a shaman, and she said “you’re an idiot”. So, I decided to be a goat.’


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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: thomasthwaites
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To: dead
This article is satyr, isn't it?

Leni

61 posted on 08/14/2015 7:02:13 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: dead
I mean...if you have to have a fantasy of being an animal...why would you choose a goat??

GoneSalt, that case of the sniffles was a designer virus carrying a new DNA segment to be implanted throughout your system, and the experiment was a success...

We are going to drop you behind enemy lines where you will terrorise ISIS fighters in the night...

For morale and to keep you company, and because her movies are getting stale, we've drafted Scarlett Johannsen to accompany you and injected her with the same viral DNA...

SCARJO: Sigh. I want to talk to my lawyer.

GS: Jeez. Even when she's a cat, she's hot.

62 posted on 08/14/2015 7:36:13 PM PDT by GoneSalt (+NooB+"I STAND WITH DONALD TRUMP-HE'S TERRIFIC-HE'S BRASH-HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH"~TED CRUZ~)
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To: jughandle

That’s funny.


63 posted on 08/14/2015 7:41:10 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: moose07
His efforts, funded by the government..

I don't suppose you or anyone you know was asked about this..

At least the G'vt financed this instead of giving Iran a bazillion pounds to play with like our own dearest leader has just done..

Maybe it's a new G'vt mooslime outreach, eh?

64 posted on 08/14/2015 7:54:29 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: dead

Nanny Caitlyn.


65 posted on 08/14/2015 8:17:56 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: NoCmpromiz
There is a perfectly rational explanation for this:

Whichever tree he fell out of must be missing him dearly.
Not wishing to mock the afflicted ,but, BWAHhh hhha haaaa hee hee what a complete Charlie's Aunt !

66 posted on 08/14/2015 8:31:06 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah)
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To: moose07

He can’t say he didn’t get wise council..

‘I initially wanted to be an elephant, but it wasn’t going very well,’ said Thwaites. ‘I visited a shaman, and she said “you’re an idiot”. So, I decided to be a goat.’

He just miss-applied it.. ;-)


67 posted on 08/14/2015 8:57:51 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: dead
Ha...let him try this in his goatee outfit.....


68 posted on 08/14/2015 9:18:30 PM PDT by spokeshave (If an illegal alien is undocumented immigrant a drug dealer is an unlicensed pharmacist)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“How did you piss him off? :)”

My mere existance up on his roof pissed him off.
He was an onery piss stinking bastard.

He climbed on the woodpile and got up there and my dad wanted him down so the roof would not get damaged.
My dad thought it was funny. Lucky I fell in the the blackberry bushs.

Next I managed to rope him and pull him down in the same bush’s, then he ate the thorny things. I was hoping they would kill him but, that is just what they love to eat.

Only an animal from Satan eats thorns!!


69 posted on 08/14/2015 10:32:39 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: right way right

Thorns? Heck I thought these guys could eat a tin can!


70 posted on 08/14/2015 10:38:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: dead

Is this anyway to attract a muslim boyfriend?


71 posted on 08/15/2015 4:53:33 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

This guy is a typical “researcher”. They have moronic ideas which are funded by morons who give grants to this mentally unbalanced people. The grants are usually OPM (other peoples’ money).


72 posted on 08/15/2015 6:54:56 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: jughandle
Go for it dude, just watch out for the Muslims.

Especially if they try to get you to face the edge of a cliff.

73 posted on 08/15/2015 6:55:58 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump/Cruz '16)
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To: JoeProBono
You looking at him?

We watching you (looking at him) Joe.

74 posted on 08/15/2015 7:12:29 AM PDT by BlueDragon (we watching you all time)
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To: dead

A descendant of Nebuchadnezzar?


75 posted on 08/15/2015 7:14:56 AM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: dead

This just screams, ‘Monty Python Fake News Skit,’ LOL!


76 posted on 08/15/2015 7:23:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: dead

Just damn. We sure do spend a lot of time and money acting as if many things aren’t a profound mental illness.


77 posted on 08/15/2015 3:26:19 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: right way right

England’s gone totally screwy, if their government is paying for this.


78 posted on 08/15/2015 3:27:17 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

I want to see him eat blackberry vines!!


79 posted on 08/15/2015 3:31:51 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: dead
‘I initially wanted to be an elephant, but it wasn’t going very well,’ said Thwaites. ‘I visited a shaman, and she said “you’re an idiot”. So, I decided to be a goat.’

".... and she replied, 'You just confirmed it.'"

80 posted on 08/15/2015 3:50:58 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Dear Jeb Bush..... Trump upped his game. Up yours!.... Love, Laz.)
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