| From: | Evan Hughes <ehughes@****.carleton.ca> |
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| Subject: | Re: New plot |
| Date: | Tue, 19 Mar 96 12:43:51 EST |
> Also, Shadowtech states that replacement organs and bioware are made by
> growing a "host body", which is optimized for the production of the
> desired parts in the minimum possible time and that "this process cannot
> be applied to humans in the same fashion." Which doesn't mean that a
> related process couldn't be applied to humans in a different fashion. If
> you can grow a mostly non-functional body with a couple useful parts in
> a few months, why can't you (after you do the appropriate research) grow
> a complete, functional body in several years?
I don't think the bod is a problem so much as the brain (etc). If
you're talking about fertilizing a transplanted egg and letting it grow,
then no problem. the trouble starts when you start trying to _BUILD_ a
genome. It's big. Really damn big. The Human Genome project is supposed to
be complete sometime in 2020 -> 2040, but thats ignoring all of the
introns (I'm probably wrong here. I usually am. =). And since in Srun,
most metagenes are contained in introns, you have to be careful about all
that detritus... *pause*
Of course, if you were to try _adapting_ an existing genome very
carefully, then you would get much less dramatic results, but they would
probably work.
Also:
In Srun, characters also have "spirits". Could one of the problems
with creating 'life' be that the spirit is an external entity (ie, derived
from the maternal parent? Paternal? Both? A rabbit? =) and is not simply
created by the genes? (OF course, if this is true, 98% of my plots are
fuqued)
*shrug* It sounds like a decent idea though.
(Sorry about the posting quality, I'm tired, leaning over the keyboard in
a bizarre position and should be working on a programming assignment.
*sob* The things I do for my muse... =)
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