ThetaDev@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoTIL In the 1920s Russian scientist Ilya Ivanov tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Both attempts at inseminating chimpanzees with human sperm and women with ape sperm failed.en.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down116
arrow-up172arrow-down1external-linkTIL In the 1920s Russian scientist Ilya Ivanov tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Both attempts at inseminating chimpanzees with human sperm and women with ape sperm failed.en.m.wikipedia.orgThetaDev@lemm.ee to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareraptir@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61arrow-down1·5 months agoThe article specifically says he did not get to try ape sperm on human women. I know it takes away some of the shock value of your post.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down3·5 months agoTechnically OP is grammatically correct… The expirement failed because his orangutan died before he could get a sperm sample Like, I’ve failed at my attempt at being the winning QB in the Super Bowl. Doesn’t mean I lost a Super Bowl as QB Like the attempt at doing it failed, it just failed before the first step was even taken. Definitely confusing tho and you were right to clarify. I’m just being a nerd about it
minus-squareDkarma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·5 months ago“so here I was jerking off Steve and he just collapsed”
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·5 months agoYou make jokes about it, but 2 grad students still have carpal tunnel…
minus-squareraptir@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·5 months agoHa fair point. I’d argue though that if you never, say, took the steps of getting to the NFL then you didn’t make an “attempt.” But yeah, in your analogy it’s more like his team didn’t make it to the playoffs.
minus-squarecriitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·5 months agoIt does say he was trying that too In 1929, after returning to the Soviet Union, he attempted to organize a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.
The article specifically says he did not get to try ape sperm on human women. I know it takes away some of the shock value of your post.
Technically OP is grammatically correct…
The expirement failed because his orangutan died before he could get a sperm sample
Like, I’ve failed at my attempt at being the winning QB in the Super Bowl. Doesn’t mean I lost a Super Bowl as QB
Like the attempt at doing it failed, it just failed before the first step was even taken.
Definitely confusing tho and you were right to clarify. I’m just being a nerd about it
“so here I was jerking off Steve and he just collapsed”
You make jokes about it, but 2 grad students still have carpal tunnel…
Ha fair point. I’d argue though that if you never, say, took the steps of getting to the NFL then you didn’t make an “attempt.”
But yeah, in your analogy it’s more like his team didn’t make it to the playoffs.
It does say he was trying that too