Scott Sigler's Cow Prophecy Comes True Twice in One Week

In "Life Imitating Really, Really Horrifying Art" news, writer and podcaster Scott Sigler put out a story called "Ancestor" last year. The story revolves around a biotech company's quest to meld bovine and human genetic material to reproduce a common Ancestor , in this case a creature from which to harvest transpantable organs to lower the risk of rejection.

This week, there have been not one, but two stories in the news about experiments going on RIGHT NOW that were presaged in his story: One is a story from WIRED on an effort to genetically resconstruct what they estimate to be the missing link, the common ancestor to pretty much all mammalian life. The scary part kicks in with the educated guesses needed to bridge the gaps in gene sequences that there are almost no way of knowing for sure, the Rumsfeldian "known unknowns".

The other story was about a Dutch company called Pharming who have already combined a human gene with bovine genes to produce a cow that gives milk with high levels of human lactoferrin, a protein that helps babies fight off infections. ( Um, it also naturally occurs in human breast milk; seems like a solution looking for a monetizable problem, but that's just me.)

Is Scott Sigler psychic? A prophet? Or just deeply, deeply sick and twisted ?

P.S. If life starts imitating his current podcasted story, "Infection", I'm grabbing me a hazmat suit and heading for the nearest gun store. Check out the story and you'll see what I mean.