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Cybrid-human offspring?
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 05 Oct 2020, 04:50 ---You mean they could have a nanomachines son?
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I suspect a daughter would be easier based on some vertebrate forms of parthenogenesis, but yes.
Use one of Faye's eggs, encode synthetic DNA based on Bubble's body plan and create self-replicating nanobot gametes[1], and pick which mom carries the kid. If Faye carries the kid, any extra-human amounts of metals and hydrocarbons will need to be feed to the kid once their born. Injecting them via an implant in the umbilical cord is possible, but could pose additional health risks to Faye beyond those tbat normally come with pregnancy. If Bubbles carries the kid, they'd still use one of Faye's eggs but it comes with additional complications. Namely, an artificial womb and umbilical cord would need to be developed before that could happen. Then, there's the decision of whether saird womb would be implanted within or attacted externally to Bubbles or if it would remain separate.[2] Whichever option she chooses, all of the requisite nutrients and resources can be fed directly to the developing embryo throughout the pregnancy.[3] However, the biggest complication here is how Bubbles' synthetic gametes will interact with Faye's egg.
There are only two recorded instances of mammalian parthenogenesis and both come from religious texts (Yeshua of Nazareth and the Atten). So we're probably going to need to take some inspiration from lizards and snakes, Bubbles gametes would act like large sperm, or they'd function as something between sperm and egg. Personally, I have no idea how Jeph would feel about any of those three options. If it were me, I'd go with the recombinate lizard parthenogenesis model since it's easiest to explain.
[1] This is the first hurdle and main confounding factor.
[2]I imagine this choice would vary from A.I. to A.I.
[3] Which is the biggest benefit of this option.
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 05 Oct 2020, 10:41 ---I'm afraid I don't really understand. I was just riffing on Senator Armstrong and Gyrre's suggestion of nanite offspring.
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I think it was that it's cliche.
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--- Quote from: Gyrre on 06 Oct 2020, 03:19 ---we're probably going to need to take some inspiration from lizards and snakes
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Gyrre:
--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 06 Oct 2020, 12:00 ---
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 05 Oct 2020, 10:41 ---I'm afraid I don't really understand. I was just riffing on Senator Armstrong and Gyrre's suggestion of nanite offspring.
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I think it was that it's cliche.
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--- Quote from: Gyrre on 06 Oct 2020, 03:19 ---we're probably going to need to take some inspiration from lizards and snakes
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--- Quote from: conspirologist ---We must prepare for the new world order!
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Oh goddammit. I wasn't referring to that tinfoil idiocy.
[Fun fact: that's one of the easiest metrics by which to tell if someone is a conspiracy theorist or a conspiracy nut. Nuts believe in lizard people and or 'snersons'.]
traroth:
Cybrid? Isn't that a word from Dan Simmons's Hyperion saga? Brawne Lamia actually had a child with a cybrid, if I remember correctly...
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: traroth on 07 Oct 2020, 06:26 ---Cybrid? Isn't that a word from Dan Simmons's Hyperion saga? Brawne Lamia actually had a child with a cybrid, if I remember correctly...
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Good question.
The kid would probably be classified as some form of cyborg, though.
[Fun fact: We've actually made brain-in-a-jar cybrogs using rats. They're called 'hybrots'.]
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