{"id":180169,"date":"2017-07-03T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/03\/evil-megalomaniac-seeks-to-revive-monster-from-primeval-times\/"},"modified":"2017-07-03T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T01:47:00","slug":"evil-megalomaniac-seeks-to-revive-monster-from-primeval-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/03\/evil-megalomaniac-seeks-to-revive-monster-from-primeval-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil Megalomaniac Seeks to Revive Monster from Primeval Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain people who I will assume that anything they do is in furtherance of evil.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is Peter Thiel, who <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=thiel+vampire&amp;max-results=20&amp;by-date=true\">literally has aspirations to be a vampire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/608159\/peter-thiel-is-funding-effort-to-bring-woolly-mammoths-back-to-life\/\">dropping big bucks on an attempt to revive the species of the Woolly Mammoth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know how reviving the Woolly Mammoth will make life more miserable for the rest of us, but given that Thiel is funding it, I guarantee that it will make life more miserable for the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>At least he&#8217;s not a one of the megalomaniacs <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/if-they-buy-white-persian-cat-call.html\">planning on mounting a private operation to mine asteroids<\/a>, which could easily be turned into a devastating weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain people who I will assume that anything they do is in furtherance of evil. One of them is Peter Thiel, who literally has aspirations to be a vampire. Now, he&#8217;s dropping big bucks on an attempt to revive the species of the Woolly Mammoth. I do not know how reviving the Woolly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[638,364,530,389],"class_list":["post-180169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-biology","tag-evil","tag-genetics","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}