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Life of MKR: A Long-Term Reality and Documentary Project About a Life in Development

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Life of MKR A Long-Term Reality and Documentary Project About a Life in Development By Ronen Kolton Yehuda (MKR: Messiah King RKY) For approximately a decade, I have lived with a persistent sense that my life may be observed or documented extensively, at times almost continuously. I have written about this experience on my blogs and have sometimes described it through the idea of a personal “Truman Show.” I cannot independently establish that such hidden documentation actually exists, and I do not propose that a television production should treat it as an established fact. It is, however, an important part of my life and one of the reasons I am proposing Life of MKR . Rather than continuing with uncertainty about whether my life is being documented, I would like to explore the possibility of creating an actual long-term reality and documentary project in which the documentation is real, transparent and professionally organized. Cameras would be present because everyone involved knows ...
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Could We Create a Giant Domestic Cat? The Science, Future Technology, Safety and Ethics of Genetically Enlarged Cats

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Could We Create a Giant Domestic Cat? Science, Future Technology, Safety and Ethics of Genetically Enlarged Cats By Ronen Kolton Yehuda (MKR: Messiah King RKY) Abstract Could future biotechnology create a domestic cat that is several times larger than an ordinary house cat while preserving the familiar appearance, coat, behavior and social character of Felis catus ? The question becomes much more complex when we imagine not only moderately enlarged cats of 12–30 kg, but animals reaching 60, 100, 200 or even 300 kg—body masses comparable with large wild felids—and, at the most speculative extreme, perhaps 300–500 kg. Creating such animals would not simply involve making a cat grow more. Body mass, bone loading, muscle strength, organ function, metabolism and heat balance do not all scale in the same way. A healthy enlarged cat would therefore need progressively different proportions and internal anatomy as its size increased. Several relevant technologies already exist. Scientists can s...
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