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WCDT: 2236-40 (23-27 July 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
DSL:
--- Quote from: Throg on 27 Jul 2012, 04:35 ---Okay, that last panel creeped me out a bit. without the connecting speech balloon branch, that sounded like a voice from above. Like Station was monitoring the conversation and decided to interject.
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Dang, I like that idea.
El_Flesh:
All you need to make your offspring is to combine the nucleii of two eggs. I don't know if injecting on egg nucleus into another will kickstart it into fetal growth; it might need sperm touching its outer cellular wall to start the chemical changes that commence the process. It might be a process of penetrating the host nucleus as well and combining the two, or, one could remove a nucleus from EACH donor, combine them, and inject the result into another egg that has had its nucleus cleared.
Or, if you remove the nucleus from one egg and inject it into a similarly cleared sperm, then fertilize another egg with it, that might be easiest - however the nucleus of the egg might be too large for the sperm cell; I don't recall their relative sizes.
Another possibility would be to inject one egg nucleus into another egg, then kickstart it with a sperm cell that had its nucleus removed.
I don't know if this degree of microsurgery exists, for sperm cells are a LOT smaller than eggs.
All in all, I'd be pretty surprised to find out that none of this is currently possible. It might be however, that the failure to success ratio would be so high that it simply isn't done at the present time.
Carl-E:
I find Dora's body language interesting. She takes what looks like a defensive stance whe she first asks Marten what he thinks - like she wouldn't normally do something like this. In the second panel, it's more fearful - she's already opened up to him in the past, and is now admitting that fact (to herself as much as to him). She's really putting herself on the line by asking what he thinks, an he responds honestly, which is a great relief in the third panel. Interestingly, nothing Marten says is really about Dora, but rather is a reading of the situations, past and present. That may be why she has the relieved appearance, the personality attack she half expected didn't arrive.
... and, based on this, I think her therapy's progressing well. Lucky for her, she asked the nicest guy she knows...
chickabiddybex:
You get a donor sperm cell, take out its DNA, replace it with DNA of woman A and put the altered sperm into woman B's egg.
You then get child AB!
It is very difficult and I don't think there has been a great deal of success but it's theoretically possible and I believe it will be a reality in the future.
Alternatively, get a stem cell from woman A and try to make it into a sperm cell. I don't know how possible this one is but knowing us, probably very simple in the future!
I'm surprised Hanners likes babies... they're all sicky and gross and poo!
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: chickabiddybex on 27 Jul 2012, 06:44 ---I'm surprised Hanners likes babies... they're all sicky and gross and poo!
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But they're cute - and cute trumps everything.
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