Cloning gone wrong....

[Lisa0825]

More from these really twisted creative minds.... www.humandescent.com

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Eeek! It was like something out of a Bosch painting!

:scared:

[Lisa0825]

2. the ones on their website are frightening!

Lots of things that look like they walked out of a horror movie! I got an email of 5 cutsie images of theirs, and wanted to see more, so I looked up the site, and it aint so cutsie there!LOL!

[Coastie for Truth]

3. Adobe Photoshop is wonderful

but the really scary evolutionary events are the viruses that evolve to attack new hosts (like chicken viruses that evolve to attack humans -- it's called "flu".

And the human genetic diseases that result from evolutionary changes in our DNA to protect us from risks that are no longer around -- sickle cell anemia (malaria), cystic fibrosis (Bubonic Plague), and diabetes (winter crop failure).

[NYC]

4. Please tell me more about the evolutionary changes

intended to protect against disease. I hadn't heard about this.

...sickle cell anemia (malaria), cystic fibrosis (Bubonic Plague), and diabetes (winter crop failure)...

Thanks.

[Coastie for Truth]

5. Took an adult ed course in "Biochem and Evolution"

at a local med school (Stanford Univ) and we started out with bacteria developing antibiotic resistance. You subject a colony of bacteria to, say, penicillin, and 99% are killed. You subject the off-spring of the 1% who survived to penicillin, and only 98% are killed, etc. Ultimately you get to a penicillin resistant strain.

The link between sickle cell anemia and malaria is described in http://www.bambed.org/cgi/content/full/30/5/279

The theory with cystic fibrosis has to do with providing survival advantage from Bubonic Plague.

The whole "metabolic syndrome" has to do with inefficiencies in metabolism that in a hunter-gatherer society (where people died young), provided a survival advantage through cold, crop failure winters (before the degenerative effects of type 2 diabetes are detected).

There was a lot of good stuff in the class and he threw it at us fast.

(I wish we could still teach evolution in our Public Schools - sigh)

A good read (don't let the almost "comic book" format fool you - it is a good text), is David P. Clark and Lonnie D. Russell - "Molecular Biology Made Simple and Fun"

[NYC]

8. Thank you very much.

I would have enjoyed that class.

[freebird1]

6. ~ and how is it "right"?

[Lisa0825]

7. it's humor. not meant to be a serious topic, tho

those who decided to discuss it are welcome to.

[freebird1]

9. ~very funny pictures

:shrug:

[Redstone]

10. Those people are about the best

at Photoshop that I've ever seen. Trust me, that kind of stuff is damn hard to do.

Redstone

[Lisa0825]

11. yeah, I was amazed atthe technical skill in those pics!!!

I'm also a big fan of Fark contests, but I have to say the best Photoshop work I have ever seen was at humandescent.com. As freaky and frightening as some are, they are are excellent work!!!

[slutticus]

12. OMFG! Look at this one...

Man....that just freaks me out...