It's hard to believe that Adam has existed for over two months now. His second month went by so quickly and yielded practically no changes, when compared with the first. If I were to describe Adam's current state, it would practically be a facsimile of the last update posted here. The mixture in Adam's jar is still opaque, viscous, and homogenized. The only minor change that has occurred over the last month is that the crystalline crust seems to have dissolved and the oil spots on Adam's surface aren't as apparent as they once were. I'm certainly not disappointed with Adam's progress or lack thereof, because I do think that, sooner or later, changes will become more apparent.
Something that I've been thinking about doing since the very beginning of this project is creating additional specimens like Adam. Once I decided that I didn't want to tinker around with what I would put into Adam, I considered that I would just follow the same procedures but with different substances
. This is what I've ended up doing, more or less, except the experiment isn't just about different materials. Instead, I'm only going to introduce substances to Adam II that I believe are full of bacteria, whereas, with Adam, I've always tried my best to avoid adding bacteria to his environment, letting bacteria form on its own.Adam II is contained within a jar that has been cleaned and, at one time, housed a spider. There's a small smudge on the inside of the jar, which I'm assuming is some kind of waste/residue that the spider left behind, because nothing else has been inside the jar after it was cleaned. Currently, Adam II is comprised of dead blood and pus, which are the contents of an infected hair follicle, and scrapings from my tongue mixed with saliva. Since pus is probably the only thing harder to harvest than se
men, I probably won't be adding anymore of it to Adam II. Rather, I'll be regularly adding saliva and tongue scrapings to the container.As far as predictions go, I don't really expect to see Adam II develop much faster than his predecessor. Of course, I'm mainly saying this to circumvent disappointment. I'd like to believe that Adam II's bacteria-
rich composure will yield interesting/surprising results more quickly than Adam. The main reason why I think that this could be the case is that I've made a hypothesis which states that Adam II already contains bacteria that Adam's contents have yet to/may not ever attract and these bacteria will play a crucial role in creating something that could be interpreted as life.With history as an indicator, Adam II's beginnings should be full of changes, so updates may be coming frequently once again, as progress occurs.
