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Nathaniel Lambert
Grand Master
Joined: 19 Mar 2008
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Location: Tropical, North Dakota
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 Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject: Why I love my job |
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I'm a mad scientist by day and there's bountiful inspiration for writing everywhere around my lab. First of all, I work with the plague... enough said. Also, just some of the techniques I do on a daily basis just bring to mind great fiction:
Mutagenesis
Transformation
Cloning
Infection
Innoculation
Immunosuppresion
Transgenic Mice
Vaccination
Oncogenesis
Wildtype
Lethal Dosage...
Just to name a few. This is also a double-edged sword. I don't know how many times I've freaked myself out while working in the mouse lab late at night. I'm convinced I'll lock my knees, pass out and the mice will gnaw my face off while I'm out.
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shroud
Site Admin
Joined: 19 Mar 2008
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Location: Milton, NH
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Natalie L. Sin
Disciple
Joined: 21 Mar 2008
Posts: 54
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Gross. My better half used to work in a lab, I would be curious to see if you guys know some of the same people. You know how incestuous engineering and science are. He misses the lab and likes to sneak back now and then 
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Scott
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Joined: 19 Mar 2008
Posts: 22
Location: Hudson Vally, NY
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VERY COOL!  A story I'm currently working on is about a lonely soldier going quietly insane in a nuclear launch silo, receiving order after order to launch nuclear strikes on home soil---small towns to big cities (Staten Island's among the first to go) in a futile, last-ditch effort by The Powers That Be to sterilize an out-of-control super-virus that is decimating the nation...
Any advice or interesting bits you can thow my way, in terms of making the virus unique, terrifying and interesting?
Would you mind if I PM'd you at some point if I have a technical question about... I dunno... viri and things?
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Nathaniel Lambert
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Joined: 19 Mar 2008
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Location: Tropical, North Dakota
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| Scott wrote: |
VERY COOL! A story I'm currently working on is about a lonely soldier going quietly insane in a nuclear launch silo, receiving order after order to launch nuclear strikes on home soil---small towns to big cties (Staten Island's among the first to go) in a futile, last-ditch effort by The Powers That Be to sterilize an out-of-control super-virus that is decimating the nation...
Any advice or interesting bits you can thow my way, in terms of making the virus unique, terrifying and interesting?
Would you mind if I PM'd you at some point if I have a technical question about... I dunno... viri and things? |
Not at all.
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