I haven't blogged in a million years and I'm trying to study but I have all these random thoughts running through my head. I'll explain. Last night, Nicole and I watched Vampire Diaries. It was the usual vampire stuff mixed in with werewolves and witches. Cool. Now, on the other side of my life, I have been in school since January to get my nursing degree, so I'm learning about cellular biology and obligate aerobes, facultative aerobes, etc. I was making breakfast this morning and those thoughts collided. I was thinking:
Even though vampires don't exist IF THEY DID, wouldn't they have varying degrees of blood dependability? With bacteria, there are what's called obligate aerobes. They absolutely need air or they will die. Or you have facultative anaerobes that can live in an environment with air, but they don't use it for nutrition. Finally, there are obligate aerobes that absolutely need air or they will die. This a basic breakdown, there's more but that's all the explaination necessary finish this thought I have.
WELLLLLLL, mixing this thought with vampires, I hypothesize that if vampires existed, there would be obligate hemavores (NEEED BLOOD AND CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT IT), Facultative hemavores (get nutrition from blood, but can eat regular food also)... and following this line of thinking, there would be obligate ahemavores, vampires that CANNOT have blood. So what do they do? They have the benefit of living for eternity, but eating regular food and not dealing with the moral dilemma suddenly becoming a serial killer in order to live.
So, obviously I have no way to prove this. I am aware that this is crazy thinking (but kind of fun) and this is what I was thinking about this morning. Now I will hopefully continue studying.
