Re: Weak Vampires?

On Mar 18, 6:07=A0pm, Gene Ward Smith <g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > (1) They're a sub-species of human.
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> > (2) They're invisible. =A0Or they hypnotise us. =A0Or they pass as
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> > Or they're incredibly sneaky.
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> And this all evolved how?

Conceivably with deliberate intervention.  Say there's been a cult
that drinks human blood for a /very/ long time, they become dependent
on it - just like actually we (I think all mammals?) have a gene to
produce vitamin C, but it's /broken/, so we need vitamin C in our
diet.  This arose because we /had/ vitamin C in our diet.

Or somebody spends an awfully long time selectively breeding apes to
behave like vampires, and to pass for human at a distance.  Or
something.

Now a big "problem" to reproduce vampires is to make the critters
dependent on humans specifically, but do we have to do that?  Do
classical vampire stories have cattle mutilations as well?  There's
that crazy guy who eats flies, isn't there?  So I'm thinking, we do
have for real "vampire bats"... they just don't dig wolf calls, and
turn into mist, and all that.