honestly even the highest concept sci-fi seems tame once you learn BioSteel™ Goats exist irl
What the fuck are you talking about
you know. the spider goats. the goats spliced with spider genes.
they shoot bulletproof webbing out of their udders!
ok ok that last part’s not technically true, but the truth is still pretty nifty:
yes these goats really exist! in most ways they are normal goats, except for how they secrete spider silk in their milk
(or rather, they secrete a special protein in their milk, which is then extracted and woven into silk fibers)
their DNA contains transplanted genes taken from the Golden Orb Weaver Spider, whose silk is incredibly strong–but can’t be naturally produced in large quantities. because…spiders are tiny ya’ll.
these superpowered web-slinging spidergoats genetically modified but otherwise normal and healthy goats can produce much larger amounts of this material (marketed as BioSteel), which is stronger than steel and more bulletproof than kevlar. plus it’s lightweight, elastic, and bio-compatible (compatible with living tissue), meaning it has a ton of potential industrial and medical applications.
(imagine 40 years from now you need knee surgery, and your doctor sits you down and explains that your shiny new anterior cruciate ligament was actually artificially woven out of SPIDER GOAT MILK SILK. also in this magical hypothetical future we have universal healthcare. and the wealth of all billionaires has been globally redistributed. this is my hypothetical scenario, i do what i want.)
like i said. pretty nifty!
and here is a photo of one such genetically modified BioSteel™ Goat, her name is Freckles
May I add the fantastic glow in the dark cats. They’ve been tagged with a gene from jelly fish that causes them to glow and that can be passed down. Was used to help study how other genes were passed.
I mean the whole damn point of the Nativity story is that the supposed son of God (interpret Jesus how you fucking want, of course) was born to a couple of poor, exhausted peasants in the stable for the inn, and his first bed was a feeding trough for animals. That would nowadays be like a poor couple where the mother gives birth in a parking garage behind the motel because they couldn’t find a better place and nobody else would take them in. It’s a pretty gritty setting, and the idea is that God was reborn in some of the rock-bottom lowest circumstances. The only thing majestic was all the angels and shit, and of course motherly love
I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on
‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.
The only thing that bothers me is it has “Antipas” below Herod. That’s the wrong guy. Herod Antipas was de jeur (but not de facto yet) king of Galilee at the point of the nativity, but his father Herod the Great was still the king of Judea (or he was supposed to be - the timeline is a bit murky via the Gospels contradicting the historic record). If Herod the Great had in fact passed by the nativity (contradicting the completely fictitious Slaughter of the Innocents account) than Herod Archelaus was king of Judea, and would be until Rome removed him in favor of direct governorship in 6 CE.
if the usamerican civil war was happening now instead of the 1800s you would see posts on here like “im literally disabled and i need a slave to function”
So was the goat just ritual as part of the Lumen emergent religion, or was it supposed to play a medical role in the experiment?
They have a division made to play a band song for Mark S. When he completes the 25th file, do you realy think they won’t have a division to sacrifice goats to their boss-god?
My headcanon on Choreography and Merriment is they ran an experiment on whether you could sever off practicing an instrument and the outie have the trained abilities (since non-biographic memory does seem to go the other way). Having an employed severed division of musicians is just the after effects of that.
A lot of weirdness like that started to make sense back in season 1 when I realized that severance was Lumon’s product.
lumon’s department sizes are so funny. “how many people do we need to refine some super important data?” uhhhh four i guess. at most. “what about the company marching band?” fuck ur so right. we need a company marching band with like fifty people. this is of prime importance to the lumon mission.
Once I realized (back during season 1 but season 2 confirmed it in universe) that Lumen’s product was Severance, a lot of the weirdness made sense.
They have more severed people then they need for the actual labor because they’re experiments. So they get put to work at weird extra jobs.
They have a marching band because they ran an experiment on musical talent and the barrier - whether people could make an innie for practice and the outie have the ability that results from the practice.
sooooooooooooo many things to scream about tonight but number one on the list is the difference in the ways dylan and mark’s outies talked to their innies. from the get-go mark scout is nothing but patronizing to mark s. he created mark s as an escape from his grief, and now he wants to use mark s as a means to an end to save his wife and pick up his life where he abandoned it. he gets helly’s name wrong and calls her ‘the person you’re seeing’ because he doesn’t recognize mark s’s humanity. he sees mark s as an extension of himself, and he only loves gemma, so of course whatever mark s feels for helly can’t be real or worth fighting for. and when mark s understandably doesn’t see it his way, mark scout lashes out, calling mark s a child.
but then you have the letter dylan george wrote to dylan g. in three paragraphs dylan george talks to his innie like an adult, like they are peers. he’s angry at dylan g, but at the same time, he understands why dylan g did what he did. he would have done the same if he were in dylan g’s place. after years of being jealous of his outie, dylan g learns that his outie thinks he (dylan g) is the one to emulate, the self-assured badass. and where helena and mark scout made their innie’s decisions for them (“i am a person. you are not.”) dylan george breaks the cycle: he offers his opinion, but ultimately puts the decision back in dylan g’s hands.
at the end of this season, dylan g is gifted agency. and after fulfilling his purpose, mark s steals his agency back.
