See How Tough Your Immune System is With "Blood Wars" 119
Thanks to a new art/science exhibition called "Blood Wars," you can find out whose dad has the toughest immune system once and for all. The brainchild of artist Kathy High, "Blood Wars" pits white blood cells from two different people against each other. From the article: "In order to create the blood duel, High gets a phlebotomist to take blood samples from two different people. She then separates the white blood cells from the rest of the blood and stains them using different colors. They are then placed in a Petri dish and their interactions are filmed under a microscope using time-lapse microscopy. The cellular 'winner' of each round will go onto fight another participant."
Re:Retreive Winning Cells (Score:5, Funny)
Presumably that would only boost your immunity to humans. And here I thought I couldn't possibly be any more antisocial...
Re:Hell yes! (Score:4, Funny)
on facebook. duh.
don't forget to spam everyone's news feed with "join my blood in blood wars!"
OnionSports (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:No Planescape references yet? (Score:4, Funny)
Geeze, what kind of geeks read slashdot these days?
Realms fans, cutter.
Re:FTA- "Art-Science installation" (Score:2, Funny)
Pussies like you make me sick. Your blood could be out there vying for dominance in the arena and facing down the toughest in the world. It could venture forth into the open world where viruses roam and the very environment could kill it. Instead you want it to sit at home in the couches of your arteries and veins twiddling it thumbs.
Do something for your species! Send your blood cells out to hunt down those terrorist diseases in their homes! Pre-emptively strike at their very hearts before they bring the war to you or your neighbour's body!
Re:Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
I meant she should label the Petri dishes, but I spoke too quickly. I reread it and she mixed up both cells in the same Petri dish.
Of course she did that. It's quite hard for white blood cells to fight each other if you put each of them in their own petri dish.
White blood cells generally are unable to use ranged weapons to their full effectiveness.