Nice work
I like it, it's certainly got the 'squick' factor. Mind if I make a couple of really small edits? Some sentences don't seem to flow as well as they could (and you can always revert me).
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Thanks, tweaking done. Also, does 164 only infect humans, if not, what would happen in an animal infectee?
Ah… I hadn't considered that. I imagine it only effects humans… Of course, the first thing that popped into my mind was that you could infect a squid with it, and suddenly, hey, recursive squids.
And, ooh, thanks, the edits definitely tightened it up. :)
Yay! Recursive squi… wait, that's not a good thing, aaahh!
Glad I could help, looks like I've found an outlet for my pedantry at last! By the way, reading the first line again, something seems odd: "…contained using standard Class-3 biohazardous materials". Assuming you didn't mean to have 164 contained using hazardous stuff, should the line be along the lines of "using Class-3 biohazard containment units" or something like that? Or have I completely misread it (which is definitely a possibility…)
Right, I think that was a blunder on my part. Heh. Edited.
I'm pretty sure there are transmissible cancers that affect humans.
There may be, but they're not known. T
here has, however, been a few instances of a cancer taking root in another host. The circumstances tend to be exceptional, though.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/335/20/1494
Cancer is just not effective at jumping individuals. The immune system tends to recognize it, and any strains that have effective immuno-supressing qualities when jumping hosts just aren't known.
Edit: A more current article that serves more as a summary and contains information on this topic.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/04/0081988
Interesting stuff!
In the time since this discussion occurred science has identified human transmissible tumors. A simple edit would fix the incorrect information and not harm the overall idea.
Nope, they are known in canine (Canine transmissible venereal tumor, Devil facial tumour disease), but although the immortal HeLa cell line comes close, a cancer transmissible through relatively "normal" human interaction (outside medical or biohazard situations) is not known in human.
Thoroughly unsettling… it's popthatzit.com taken to its logical, horrible conclusion.
grammar time:
The opening sentence of the description was originally
"SCP-164 is a strain of cancerous cells, which cause sarcoma-like tumors in host bodies."
The comma and the "which" clause was throwing me on several readthroughs, because the second part of the sentence seems to be an essential clause, requiring the use of "that". I just edited it:
"SCP-164 is a strain of cancerous cells that cause sarcoma-like tumors in host bodies."
However the fact that it's a *strain of* cells complicates matters. Should it be "strain of cancerous cells that CAUSES"? Or is it really the cells themselves, plural, causing the tumors?
Incredibly minor, and it's probably fine the way it is now. I just wanted to explain my logic and make it available for discussion. Great article.
"Strain" in this instance acts as a group noun (strain of cells), so the number of the verb depends on if the strain acts as a group or individually.
Also, yay for small spelling fixes.
Kids, the main verb in this sentence is "is". The word "causes" is part of a whatchacallit, clause thingy, and is dependant on the main verb. It has to be singular, because the main verb is singular. Verb tense agreement, yadda yadda. The noun is unimportant.
Gah! You see what this site is doing to my word-brain? DO YOU?!
*finds somewhere to hide from "is"*
Upvoted just for the title. "Squid Tumors". Hehehehe.
(account deleted)At the risk of sounding pedantic, but isn't 4 degrees Celsius (not 10) considered the standard temperature for refrigerator units?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
EDIT: Didn't mean to sound like a dick. It's well written, and it certainly has that 'creep' factor. Good job!
This one has always held a special place in my heart. I really like the way it's written, somehow.
if your reading this your gay
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