G to the C

While working in the cage today, the laboratory with biological safety cabinet and sterile environment laminar flow hood and scientific rubble of all shapes and sizes, floating on countertops, plastic carts, floors and in the endless rows of wrongly marked pale color cabinets, and listening to Pink Floyd played on the classic rock station, I thought about all the times when I created, invented or discovered something in the lab. The answers which came to me as a big surprise were never, nada and zilch!

But that gave me something to write about. When was ever a hero an inventor? Never!  A hero has always been a destroyer. Everyone is talking about our dear old Peter Parker, the spider man. But what did he do to deserve that title? nothing. He went to a museum and got bit by a spider. What else did he do? He went out, saved few people, left his webs all over
New York City and all-in-all a big mess. Think about the taxes people of New York City are paying to the city to get that mess cleaned up, and all the creative ways city is coming up to remove those ultra-strong spidy webs, which can hold a car in mid air. I would personally hate those “web-balls” he throws all the time on bad guys’ eyes and guns. Talk about bumpy ride taking those webs off your eyes and driving the car the same time, especially on
New York City roads.

Villains on the other hand, are the greatest mind ever. Lets talk about the Green Goblet. No, I am not talking about the son who is out to take revenge from Spider man; I am talking about the original Green Goblet. He was a genius. He developed Oscorp industries on his own. He invented the green suit and the glider. Everything about him was so cool, the little green bombs, the sinister laugh, the suits and glider, everything. Do you think Spider man could do it? No!

Not convinced yet? Let’s talk about Doc Oc! Another genius man! Even more so than the Green Goblet. A creation of fusion reaction in an empty building with nothing else than a little help from Oscorp and few more mechanical arms. And all spiderman could do was to take the plug off.. yea, fine, fine he saved few million lives doing that… but do you see my point? He is not the one who is genius. Anyone can be spiderman. All you need is a little spider, which suddenly develops an interest in your hand and voila! Next day you are a spiderman.. or a woman… and it has happened to other people then jsut spiderman. One name for you. Pavitra Prabhakar. Look him up, and you’ll know what I am talking about.

So after all this insight in Spiderman’s capabilities and its veracity, I have come to a conclusion. Spidy boy and me are not so different, I have no imagination like him, I have never invented anything like him, I have certainly destroyed quite a few things like him and last but not least, if you add them up from the time I started working in the cage, I have saved trillions and trillions of lives of little tiny cells living in my mammalian and insect cell cultures, which concludes that I am also a HERO!

All I need now is one little bite of the red-blue spider on my hand, so I start shooting webs from my wrist and start killing those cells..