Genius Lunatic Somehow Gets Funding to Live Like a Goat - Modern Farmer

Genius Lunatic Somehow Gets Funding to Live Like a Goat

He ate grass and everything.

Tim Bowditch

Thomas Thwaites describes himself as “a designer (of a more speculative sort), interested in technology, science, futures research & etc.” In the past he’s attempted to build a toaster from scratch and an advertising bot that convinces people to live their best life instead of buying things. His most-recent project: live like a goat.

“I tried to become a goat to escape the angst inherent in being a human,” he writes. This project, for which he secured funding from the Wellcome Trust (a company that primarily funds healthcare projects) found him in the Alps in September 2014 amidst a herd of domesticated goats from a farm.

Tim Bowditch

Tim Bowditch

To do this, Thwaites went further into the physicality of becoming a goat than, perhaps, any human ever has. He commissioned, as Motherboard reports, two pairs of prosthetic limb-adapters to allow him to walk on all fours like a particularly clumsy, long-legged goat. Apparently keeping up with the goats on the rocky mountainous terrain proved an issue; he was only able to stay with the herd for three days, and spent another three living a solo goat life.

goat-man

Tim Bowditch

Tim Bowditch

Tim Bowditch

He even created a sort-of artificial goat stomach to allow him to eat grass in the same way a goat, with its multiple stomachs, would.

To fully explain why and how he undertook this transformation, Bowditch wrote and recently released a book, sensibly titled GoatMan, which you can buy on Amazon.

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