Phoned mum. 3 hours later...
Feb. 12th, 2012 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethMum had not previously heard of transgenics. The word. It is a new word, invented in 1980.
First we talked about belt loops on trousers and them being really new, and mum explained that if you hold trousers up with braces you can have them be very adjustable to different size people, and also people were still wearing smocks and stuff anyways. Smocks can be very warm and waterproof because only the outside gets wet, but they're heavy. So then I told her about spider silk clothes, and then spider goats and the new silk worms. And mum was all blinky, because this is all New new to her. And so then I said about pharm goats that make life saving meds in the milk, and also about glowing cats. Mum liked the glowing cats. They totally weirded her out, but in a woah cool way.
I like this stuff because it's new and cool and has all the possibilities, but most of these possibilities had never even as a hint of a suspicion crossed my mum's mind, so she was like, woah *blinks*.
Also I looked up sea slugs, which are coooool and have all the colors, nudibranch they're called and they're all the different shapes. And mum thought they were yuck things but we looked up sea cucumbers and they're quite different things and also they throw their insides at things sometimes and are indeed yuck. And then mum wanted to know about spider spinnerets, and spiders have usually 6 but sometimes 2 or 4 or 8, and they move independently and they can do things together or separate and they're on the back underneath of a spider abdomen. They look right complicated. I do not want pictures of spider parts though. Or spiders. Mum wanted to know if there are glow spiders and there were some with reflective eyes and then I realised I don't want to know if there are glow spiders and also there are too many pictures on this here internet. But it's no surprise that spidergoats don't make the silk just by making the silky milk, if there's up to 8 spinnerets doing complicated things to it after it is goo.
Spider goats video
presenter is all woah dude too
even though they're just, like, being goats.
If you took all this stuff and wrote a story where it all actually just works like planned then it'd look like science fiction but it's all happening now.
Making science fiction sufficiently new is increasingly difficult.
Cause we're living in it.
First we talked about belt loops on trousers and them being really new, and mum explained that if you hold trousers up with braces you can have them be very adjustable to different size people, and also people were still wearing smocks and stuff anyways. Smocks can be very warm and waterproof because only the outside gets wet, but they're heavy. So then I told her about spider silk clothes, and then spider goats and the new silk worms. And mum was all blinky, because this is all New new to her. And so then I said about pharm goats that make life saving meds in the milk, and also about glowing cats. Mum liked the glowing cats. They totally weirded her out, but in a woah cool way.
I like this stuff because it's new and cool and has all the possibilities, but most of these possibilities had never even as a hint of a suspicion crossed my mum's mind, so she was like, woah *blinks*.
Also I looked up sea slugs, which are coooool and have all the colors, nudibranch they're called and they're all the different shapes. And mum thought they were yuck things but we looked up sea cucumbers and they're quite different things and also they throw their insides at things sometimes and are indeed yuck. And then mum wanted to know about spider spinnerets, and spiders have usually 6 but sometimes 2 or 4 or 8, and they move independently and they can do things together or separate and they're on the back underneath of a spider abdomen. They look right complicated. I do not want pictures of spider parts though. Or spiders. Mum wanted to know if there are glow spiders and there were some with reflective eyes and then I realised I don't want to know if there are glow spiders and also there are too many pictures on this here internet. But it's no surprise that spidergoats don't make the silk just by making the silky milk, if there's up to 8 spinnerets doing complicated things to it after it is goo.
Spider goats video
presenter is all woah dude too
even though they're just, like, being goats.
If you took all this stuff and wrote a story where it all actually just works like planned then it'd look like science fiction but it's all happening now.
Making science fiction sufficiently new is increasingly difficult.
Cause we're living in it.