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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition : Science Slightly Over the Edge by Edward Regis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms, building time machines, hatching plans for dismantling the sun, enclosing the solar system in a cosmic eggshell, and faxing human minds to the far side of the galaxy. With Ed Regis as your guide, walk the fine line between science fact and fiction on this freewheeling and riotously funny tour through some of the most serious science there is. Ed Regis, a frequent contributor to Omni magazine, is College Scholar at Western Maryland College. He is at work on a new book about extremely advanced science and technology." "What is a great mambo chicken? Well, it’s what you get when you spin a chicken around in a centrifuge so it lives its life at two-and-a-half times the Earth’s gravitational pull. Because they have a greater amount of gravity to work against, the chickens develop stronger and larger muscles and bones. Why would anyone do this to a chicken? To find out what would happen to humans if they lived at greater-than-earth gravity, of course. Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition is full of stories like this: it’s the Tom

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Author

Edward Regis

Publisher

Addison-Wesley

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780201092585

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Engineering

Rating

4 / 5 (269 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13