• raptir@lemdro.id
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    9 months ago

    The article specifically says he did not get to try ape sperm on human women. I know it takes away some of the shock value of your post.

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      9 months ago

      Technically OP is grammatically correct…

      The expirement failed because his orangutan died before he could get a sperm sample

      Like, I’ve failed at my attempt at being the winning QB in the Super Bowl. Doesn’t mean I lost a Super Bowl as QB

      Like the attempt at doing it failed, it just failed before the first step was even taken.

      Definitely confusing tho and you were right to clarify. I’m just being a nerd about it

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        9 months ago

        Ha fair point. I’d argue though that if you never, say, took the steps of getting to the NFL then you didn’t make an “attempt.”

        But yeah, in your analogy it’s more like his team didn’t make it to the playoffs.

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      9 months ago

      It does say he was trying that too

      In 1929, after returning to the Soviet Union, he attempted to organize a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.

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    9 months ago

    Alternate headline: Russian beastiality connoisseur fucked a chimp and jerked of an orangutan until it died. No pregnancies occurred

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    9 months ago

    He should have stuck to more sensible experiments, like Comrade Lysenko who tried to teach communism to trees.

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    9 months ago

    The local cryptid in my home town was the “Humanzee” reported to have been created at the “secret lab” of a Yale psychologist/primatologist/eugenicist.

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    9 months ago

    He tried twice and gave up? Bet if we try again today it would work, but them there is this “ethics” bs lol

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      9 months ago

      In vitro… You can see if it works publish a paper not animals directly involved

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    9 months ago

    mad scientists are not just in comic books, kids… you don’t even want to know what the Chinese get up to in their secret labs…