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WCDT: 2236-40 (23-27 July 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Is it cold in here?:
Or her dad and company in particular. There have been hints that Hannelore is a genetic engineering experiment.
Mothykins:
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 26 Jul 2012, 23:29 ---Right now, all of that stuff still requires an egg and a sperm. Turning an egg into a sperm for the purpose of fertilization is still in the future, what little experimental success we've had isn't transferable to humans.
Basically, Dora and Tai could have babies, but it wouldn't be a combination of their genes, and therefore Hanner's talk about their babies would require new technology.
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They have sentient AI. I'm pretty sure QC is set far enough in the future that that kind of technology isn't too far off.
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 26 Jul 2012, 23:26 ---Thinking about this, if they have the technology so women can have children with women, we men get kind of superflous.
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Men are a mystery biologically. A species can perpetuate itself better if it doesn't have half its members incapable of bearing children. There is speculation about why males exist but nothing definitive.
Boomslang:
Eusocial organisms have only a single member of a large group capable of bearing children. They're doing just fine. Ants are one of the most successful species on the planet, and the majority of the members of each colony will never take a direct role in reproduction. And besides, perpetuating the species is not solely a function of having as many children as possible- with larger organisms especially, each offspring takes a lot of care and a large amount of resources to bring to child bearing age. The females of these species are already capable of bearing more children than the community and it's environment can support even without the males.
If you're talking about why sexual reproduction occurs, as opposed to parthogenesis, it's pretty clear that the genetic shuffling that occurs introduces greater genetic variability into a species. Which makes it more likely that under changing conditions the species as a whole will survive. Bacteria can do this sort of genetic shuffling without sex, but their method of doing so is if not impossible, at least highly impractical for multicellular organisms like us.
techkid:
--- Quote from: Mothykins on 27 Jul 2012, 01:15 ---They have sentient AI. I'm pretty sure QC is set far enough in the future that that kind of technology isn't too far off.
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Not so much "set in the future", but certain technologies (AnthroPC's, human-habitable and comfortable space stations, hologram AIs etc) sure as hell are more advanced than what we got here (DARPA included (probably)).
Hannelore might be being a tad optimistic (and more than a bit creepy...), but Marten does raise some good points. Tai's all for it, and Dora in her current state is not being satisfied on an emotional level. But equally, she needs to be sure that this is what she wants. Don't just jump on it (like she did Marten), but be certain that this is what she needs in her life.
As much as we want things to happen, I can tell this will be a long time coming...
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