Thar Be Dragons!
You know, I’ve often contemplated the projects I spend my free time doing; be it this website or something else. And for the most part I can justify what I do as well as understand other people’s intellectual or creative pursuits. So I am quite befuddled when I find out that teenagers are trying to create dragons.
Project Dracogenesis is the ongoing project to create a living, (fire) breathing, benevolent dragon to help humanity. While some may construe this as clearly fucking insane others may admire their courage and conviction. Here is a passage from their mission statement:
Project DracoGenesis is dedicated towards making the fictional and imaginative dragon into a beneficial ally. We will show the nearly forgotten dedication of mankind and a goal, and we will demonstrate our success as a reminder. Science will be our tool to build more tools of science, and we will advertise and offer these newfound tools to any who put it to practical use. Many say it’s impossible, but impossibility has been our goal even before history.
It’s difficult for me to dedicate myself to the most mediocre of tasks. How is then that these folks can spend years upon on an almost insurmountable and some may say impossible task with little or no education in genetics. Thankfully these questions are answered in the F.A.Q. section of the website.
Q: How do you plan on doing this?
A: Genetics is a fascinating field, is it not? The creation of living things has already been made possible even a few years back. With prospective engineers and scientists uncovering new technology, eight years from now making something as advanced as a dragon could be more than possible. One of these days, there will be an artificial egg. That egg will hatch, and DracoGenesis will have succeeded in it’s goal.
Whether or not this comes to fruition can only revealed in time. The tentative goal is 2010 as at that time the group involved in the project will have gone to and finished college and subsequently gained an education in genetic engineering. Here’s hoping.
I am the culmination of years of effort and study. Give me a hug.