OT - Planet Of The Apes?

On a 1-10 scale of really dumb things to do, this is a solid 8:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/late...imp.4028970.jp
A tad too close to both the movies and Clarke's ape servant concept.
Big, strong and dumb things that would make great slaves.

Pat

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:53:48 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Big, strong and dumb things that would make great slaves.

....Careful, Patrick. We don't want to upset ElfNazi by talking about
his parentage :P

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Aside from...I dunno, maybe Stalin...has anybody actually tried to do
this? What was the motivation for this MacKellar guy to suddenly jump
up one morning and say, "I'd better write a letter to the Department
of Health about humanzees!"

On Apr 30, 7:33*am, Damien Valentine wrote:
Aside from...I dunno, maybe Stalin...has anybody actually tried to do
this? *What was the motivation for this MacKellar guy to suddenly jump
up one morning and say, "I'd better write a letter to the Department
of Health about humanzees!"

The story of governments attempting to make human-ape crosses has been
around since the 1960s, attributed to Stalin's people and to the
Chinese communist government in Cold War days. AFAIK, not a single
document has been produced to show it was ever a serious effort.

Not to say that you couldn't produce some great NFL linemen with a
little gorilla DNA.....

Matt Bille
Sci/Tech blog
http://mattbille.blogspot.com/