Quote Originally Posted by poopdeville
The Nina + Alexander creature is a "chimera" in English and Greek. It's pronounced very similarly to how the Japanese pronounce it, though I think we stress the middle syllable instead of the first.
I always thought it was pronounced kye-mare-ra, while the Japanese pronounced it Shi-mer-ra. Meh, like you said, we seem to stress the middle syllable. I hesitated to use the term because the definition I was taught is that a mythical Chimera was a mixed animal of a certain combination, ie lion, snake and goat.

What Tucker said did bring up a good point though. Many significant medical advances took place either during a war, an epidemic, or was experimented on people inhumanely (eg on POW). Only when people died could we find ways to save others.

These days, we've got Ethics Committees and stuff. Is that "progress" in terms of humanity, or is it an "obstacle"? In Ed's words "There's only so much you can do transmutating animals."

This law of equivalent exchange thing is depressing.