robkelk Wrote:There are likely to be some undocumented bugs and features in the Catgirling Machine, just as there are in the **WHITENOISE** **WHITENOISE** **WHITENOISE** (The Julien Friez Machine has documented bugs - no two Juliens are the same, for example.)The plastic skeleton used in the CGM very likely controls the general shape of the result. I believe it's generally assumed that Dr. Asmodeus Grey was trying to make a "Weapon X" (Marvel Wolverine) making machine, and getting a catgirl instead was a major quirk.
If you run a mouse through the Catgirling Machine, do you get a Catgirl or a CatMouse? If you reverse the polarity of the process, do you get a Catgirl or a Catboy? Can the AIs running the Machine be reprogrammed without breaking the machine? Nobody's ever announced the result of such experiments...
Putting a single animal of roughly human mass in a CGM seems very likely to have been tried. An adult sheep at 45kg seems likely workable, a farm pig or even mini pig would likely do, all but the largest dog probably wouldn't be heavy enough (and most people wouldn't use a pet dog); a larger specimen of 'big cat', like a leopard, might do (conservationists would likely be upset).
Really brave people might try putting enough chickens (probably easier than many animals to obtain in Fenspace) into a CGM to match human mass, and pressing the 'Go!' button...
Curious people might try enough mass of living vegetable matter. Carrots, maybe? A giant marrow? Still, a catgirl who found they started life as 60kg of carrots might have reason to be a little upset...
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