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| Topic Started: May 17 2009, 06:07 PM (9,994 Views) | |
| rufus | May 17 2009, 06:07 PM Post #1 |
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I rememebr that once in Peter Ward's book he mentions the differnt things that could possibly thin the human population. He mentioned, then dismissed at once the possibility of a new sort of predator. As he correctly observes, any such predator would be quickly elininated or contained if it started preying on our species. Humans would simply not allow ourselves or our children to become food. But that got me to thinking. Suppose some future genetic scientist, engineered some sort of future predator to prey upon humans, perhaps as a way of cleansing the population of :defectives" or undesirables". The species could be genetically programed to hunt only humans as a food source. And it might be programed to eliminate only those humans who carried certain traits such as genetic maladies. This would have to be done in such a way that the human population would not know what was happening, and could not take the action needed to eliminate the predators. This creature would be engineered from humans themselves.The creature could have engineered traits from other animal species, such as camaflauge abilites, and perhaps sonar from bats to stun their prey. BTW, I thought of this idea long before that "future predator" thing from Primeval, and I thought of posting this today, even before I read that other thread. I also thought of making this idea into a story, in which the heor has to find who is releasing and controlling these predators and how to stop them. I usually try not to bash genetic science in my stories, like some authors do, but in this case the plot would demand that I do have a rogue geneticist. |
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| ExoTarcin | Sep 23 2009, 02:11 PM Post #91 |
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I really like my killer  and if it reproduces like sam said, if you let 5 out into New york city, you'll have an army in a few months.
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| lamna | Sep 23 2009, 02:16 PM Post #92 |
 
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Oh course the best predators of humans would be humans. If cannibal got organized, stopped cutting off and eating their wangs and started hunting people properly they would be damned effective. Well they could be. |
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| sam999 | Sep 23 2009, 02:19 PM Post #93 |
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If anyone whnts me to I'l start a new frorm for the script. |
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| ExoTarcin | Sep 23 2009, 02:20 PM Post #94 |
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But why not just eat each other with religion? Much more effective. The dinner is willing, and easy to catch. |
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| sam999 | Sep 23 2009, 02:20 PM Post #95 |
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Yes but there is no way to make them stop so if they came across you they would eat you. |
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| ExoTarcin | Sep 23 2009, 02:23 PM Post #96 |
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Unless I inject a certain chemical that makes them not recognize me as a human >:D |
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| sam999 | Sep 23 2009, 02:24 PM Post #97 |
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You mean something that is along the lines of "to get clouser to god chop of bits of yourself and feed them to the predator"? I dought eaven creationlists are THAT stupid. |
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| ExoTarcin | Sep 23 2009, 02:27 PM Post #98 |
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People blow emselves for religion, spend millions of dollars to disprove facts that have been painstakingly discovered, some don't even believe the world is round! Religion can stupefy people beyond redemption, or en light them and encourage science (like hinduism) |
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| sam999 | Sep 23 2009, 06:01 PM Post #99 |
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I geuss so. |
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| Holben | Sep 24 2009, 11:45 AM Post #100 |
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Getting a bit off topic. But creatonists probably are that stupid. I wouldn't be surprised. And the doom slime could squelch straight up to them, all they'd do is tell it how stupid scientists are (wrongly). One of them would probably release it in the first place. What's it going to do once this planet is assimilated? Hop on the space shuttle and fly to Mars, maybe. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| sam999 | Sep 24 2009, 02:34 PM Post #101 |
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Go doom slime! |
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| Holben | Sep 24 2009, 02:36 PM Post #102 |
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We need to create a DOOM slime fan club. Where should we post it? |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| sam999 | Sep 24 2009, 02:38 PM Post #103 |
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How about a doom slime movie? |
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| Holben | Sep 24 2009, 02:43 PM Post #104 |
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Box office sell-out, yet again. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| sam999 | Sep 24 2009, 06:32 PM Post #105 |
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I can help write the script. |
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