[ExI] you cn't always get what you wnt

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Sun Aug 12 10:19:52 UTC 2007


On 8/12/07, David C. Harris wrote:
> As I read that, with my creative streak being exposed, it suggests
> vampires had it wrong in their search for immortality.  Rather than
> DRINKING blood, they should have arranged transfusions of young
> blood!    ;-)
>
> Putting on my health care hat (I'm trained as a biochemist and health
> administrator) to say it directly, those two quotes suggest that aging
> might be slowed by getting transfusions of young blood (or a factor that
> might be extracted or synthesized by genetic engineering methods),
> perhaps available at a high price NOW.  The FDA couldn't stop an
> underground trade in young blood.
>


That's a great marketing image!

Transhumanists as withered old vampires draining the blood of young virgins.

We'll be swamped with join applications.

Can't you bring sex into it somewhere as well?

BillK   ;)



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