Pooor kittehs. Someone's given them Pax. by Wishimay

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Pooor kittehs. Someone's given them Pax.

POSTED BY: WISHIMAY
UPDATED: Friday, April 20, 2012 06:23
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:32 AM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130472/The-disease-turning-Br
itish-cats-living-robots--experts-say-theres-cure.html

Most stiffen up until they can't move or swallow, and some become more aggressive...

That's pretty scary... and familiar sounding.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:15 PM

BYTEMITE

I could buy toxoplasmosis. Can't rule out chemicals though.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 1:20 PM

MINCINGBEAST

Whatever the cause, I would like a Reaver Kitteh as a pet.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 3:57 PM

WISHIMAY

No kiddin'...Instead of critter heads at yer feet, they bring people heads to keep yer feet warm, and the hairballs are still MOVING...

*wishy pictures a tiny slayer kitten in a blue dress with little bitty axes... NO power in the 'verse can stop me, except maybe catnip??

Yep, I need a nap.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:32 PM

WISHIMAY

While we're on "all thing FF" Here's two articles about Lovebots.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2131041/Sex-machines-Ho
w-robotic-prostitutes-turn-crime-ridden-industry-respectable-business.html

I really wish this one would go populate their own narcisistic little planet somewhere. They bother me.

And I've read that they did not pay for that big house all on their own, and if that's true they are big fat hypocrites, in addition to being attention whores...

http://shine.yahoo.com/financially-fit/duggars-support-nineteen-kids-l
ive-debt-free-180400323.html

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:02 AM

BYTEMITE

What a terrible idea. First of all, bacteria resistant fibers will do nothing against VIRUSES, which can survive outside a host for up to two days. Second, what exactly is this saying? "Well, we can't be bothered to treat women like decent human beings, so lets use robots with sharp bits and electrocution hazards, forget all about perpetuating the species, and retroactively outrage any AI that happens to arise."

Good thinking humankind, always number 1 at Darwining ourselves into extinction.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:39 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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While we're on "all thing FF" Here's two articles about Lovebots.

What, no Lenore ? No Buffy-bot ? Sheesh !

" We're all just folk. " - Mal

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 8:19 AM

WISHIMAY

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
What a terrible idea. First of all, bacteria resistant fibers will do nothing against VIRUSES, which can survive outside a host for up to two days. Second, what exactly is this saying? "Well, we can't be bothered to treat women like decent human beings, so lets use robots with sharp bits and electrocution hazards, forget all about perpetuating the species, and retroactively outrage any AI that happens to arise."

Good thinking humankind, always number 1 at Darwining ourselves into extinction.

Yanno, for a second there, I really thought about posting with it "Byte- Don't bother pickin apart the holes, it's a really stupid poorly written article anyway..."

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 8:43 AM

BYTEMITE

But I just pick things apart so WELL...

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Friday, April 20, 2012 6:05 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I wonder if the kitties were tested for prions. Yanno, mad cow disease-type protein crystals which cause progressive misfolding of proteins in the brain.
Scotland is/was a hot-spot for two types of prion: scrapie (which affects sheep) and bovine spongiform enecephalopathy (mad cow, which crosses species rather easily. It has killed people, cats, dogs, mice etc in addition to cows)

In these kinds of diseases, a normal brain protein .... the prion protein... becomes misfolded into a very thermodynamically stable configuration, and the misfolded protein, once introduced into a normal brain, becomes a template on which other prion proteins become misfolded. Very much like self-assembling nanotechnology.

Anyway, the misfolded prion proteins are very stable. In the environment, they are as stable as hair and bone, so they don't rot quickly. (A sample buried in a garden remained infectious after 15 years.) Since they're not alive, normal disinfection procedures don't work. The proteins have to either be completely lysed in hot caustic (basic, opposite of acidic) solution or burned. How many mad cows (or sheep) died in the fields, perhaps to be eaten by mice, with the misfolding transmitted and re-transmitted over many generations?

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Friday, April 20, 2012 6:23 AM

BYTEMITE

Could be. Although I kind of thought prion diseases involved more frothing and seizures than muscular paralysis. But I don't know much about it.

This sounds almost like kitty parkisons, excessive aches and pains and shaking leading to joint stiffening and poor muscular control. Though that might rule out toxoplasmosis, behavioural side effect of the infection is too much dopamine, where parkisons and the neurological degeneration results in too little. Dopamine imbalances are sometimes paradoxical.

But it's probably SOME kind of encephalopathy, that specifically damages the limbic system.

EDIT: Hmm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_spongiform_encephalopathy

Ataxia. It's possible.

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