Vampire Overlords Revealed

[AZRedhawk44]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/07/lab-grown-blood-transfused-to-people-in-world-first-clinical-trial.html

Isn't it pretty much universally true in all the vampire fiction that the globalist cabal of vampires are intrinsically tied to the blood bank industry, and they have patents for synthetic human blood?

[MechAg94]

That is the case in the Underworld series.  Not certain about others. 

[230RN]

I wonder if there would be any religious objections to this technology.

I believe there was some flak about the use of Henrietta Lacks' cells for research on some kind of religious grounds.

Terry, 230RN

REF (Henrietta Lacks, "the immortal woman" and the HeLa cell line):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

[MechAg94]

I don't see why unless there was some issue in how it was made. 

What were the religious objections to the testing of that woman's tissue?  Been a long time since I read about that.

[dogmush]

I believe the issue with Henrietta Lacks was informed consent (or lack there of) not religious.

That said, I'm sure that someone, somewhere will claim to have a religious objection to pretty much anything.

Also pretty sure the Blade Universe had some synthetic blood along with the more organic blood farms.  True Blood had synthetic blood as well.

[MillCreek]

There is a lot of interest in synthetic blood for trauma and emergency medical services.  I recall that the Army has also been funding research into this.

[230RN]

The consent thing in the HeLa matterr was a big deal, but I recall seeing some things on the idea that she wasn't really dead until all her cells were gone (dead).   Could not "rest in peace" until then.

Hence the "Immortal Woman" misnomer.
 
Resurrection entered the matter as well.

Thus, by extension, since the artificial blood was "seeded" by real blood cells, it looked like almost the same thing. 

So I just wondered.  As a "Cafeteria Catholic" it didn't matter to me but if I turned on my "Devout Catholic" brain cells, I could understand the problem.

No matter if it didn't occur to anyone else.

Terry, 230RN

[MechAg94]

The consent thing in the HeLa matterr was a big deal, but I recall seeing some things on the idea that she wasn't really dead until all her cells were gone (dead).   Could not "rest in peace" until then.

Hence the "Immortal Woman" misnomer.
 
Resurrection entered the matter as well.

Thus, by extension, since the artificial blood was "seeded" by real blood cells, it looked like almost the same thing. 

So I just wondered.  As a "Cafeteria Catholic" it didn't matter to me but if I turned on my "Devout Catholic" brain cells, I could understand the problem.

No matter if it didn't occur to anyone else.

Terry, 230RN

That sounds like a stretch to me.  She is dead and you can't grow her back from cancerous cells.  However, I am not catholic.

[230RN]

I don't know if it was a Catholic objection.  My fuzzy recollection is it was another sect of Christianity.  I referred to the "Devout Catholic" part of my brain just to indicate I could understand it on that basis, not that any particular Catholics actually objected.

Well, if nobody else saw any resemblance between the HeLa  affair and the artificial blood thing, OK, that's it.  Blood seems to be held in reverence a lot, viz "This is my body" and "this is my blood," and the Judaic kosher slaughter by exsanguination.  And of course we speak of "blood lines" with importance.

Just wondered.  Me go now.

Terry, 230RN

[Viking]

I believe the issue with Henrietta Lacks was informed consent (or lack there of) not religious.

That said, I'm sure that someone, somewhere will claim to have a religious objection to pretty much anything.

Also pretty sure the Blade Universe had some synthetic blood along with the more organic blood farms.  True Blood had synthetic blood as well.

Blade had the serum he took to avoid drinking blood, but there were also that vampire run blood bank in Prague (iirc) and that whole pool of blood that Blade fell into.

[lee n. field]

I don't know if it was a Catholic objection.  My fuzzy recollection is it was another sect of Christianity.

"No blood!" is a Jehovah's Witness thing.

[Perd Hapley]

Is there other vampire fiction besides this one?

Ultraviolet (BBC)

[MechAg94]

Is there other vampire fiction besides this one?

Ultraviolet (BBC)

I guess that appears different than the movie of the same name.  That movie was a bit confusing with overchoreographed fight scenes.

[MechAg94]

I don't know if it was a Catholic objection.  My fuzzy recollection is it was another sect of Christianity.  I referred to the "Devout Catholic" part of my brain just to indicate I could understand it on that basis, not that any particular Catholics actually objected.

Well, if nobody else saw any resemblance between the HeLa  affair and the artificial blood thing, OK, that's it.  Blood seems to be held in reverence a lot, viz "This is my body" and "this is my blood," and the Judaic kosher slaughter by exsanguination.  And of course we speak of "blood lines" with importance.

Just wondered.  Me go now.

Terry, 230RN

I grew up in a non-denominational Church so I would be the last one to know what the big organizations would think of something like that.  Just seems entirely too legalistic to me. 

[Ben]

I guess that appears different than the movie of the same name.  That movie was a bit confusing with overchoreographed fight scenes.

Yeah, but Milla. 

[230RN]

...Just seems entirely too legalistic to me. 

Aptly put. 

Me went.  Me back.  Me go again.

[Perd Hapley]

I guess that appears different than the movie of the same name.

They're not at all related.

[lee n. field]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/07/lab-grown-blood-transfused-to-people-in-world-first-clinical-trial.html

Isn't it pretty much universally true in all the vampire fiction that the globalist cabal of vampires are intrinsically tied to the blood bank industry, and they have patents for synthetic human blood?

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I wonder what this might do for adrenochrome futures.
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