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Offline Tim Bruening

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Father's Day
« on: June 21, 2015, 12:48:55 PM »
Happy Father's Day.  Can I wish Happy Father's Day to a Yeerk?
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Re: Father's Day
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2015, 06:49:19 AM »
Yeerks... Yeerks don't have fathers. Or mothers :'(

(The Yeerks reproduce through fusion-fission. Three parent Yeerks merge into a single entity, which then breaks apart into hundreds of separate grubs. This destroys the three parent Yeerks in the process.)
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Re: Father's Day
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2015, 12:52:31 PM »
Quote from: Nar Klawip on June 22, 2015, 06:49:19 AM
Yeerks... Yeerks don't have fathers. Or mothers :'(

(The Yeerks reproduce through fusion-fission. Three parent Yeerks merge into a single entity, which then breaks apart into hundreds of separate grubs. This destroys the three parent Yeerks in the process.)

Why for God's sake would Yeerks ever agree to reproduce when it means their deaths?
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Re: Father's Day
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2015, 01:10:47 PM »
Quote from: Tim Bruening on June 22, 2015, 12:52:31 PM
Quote from: Nar Klawip on June 22, 2015, 06:49:19 AM
Yeerks... Yeerks don't have fathers. Or mothers :'(

(The Yeerks reproduce through fusion-fission. Three parent Yeerks merge into a single entity, which then breaks apart into hundreds of separate grubs. This destroys the three parent Yeerks in the process.)

Why for God's sake would Yeerks ever agree to reproduce when it means their deaths?
The speices would go extint with out reproduction.
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Re: Father's Day
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2015, 01:15:19 PM »
Quote from: Dpsb5 on June 22, 2015, 01:10:47 PM
Quote from: Tim Bruening on June 22, 2015, 12:52:31 PM
Quote from: Nar Klawip on June 22, 2015, 06:49:19 AM
Yeerks... Yeerks don't have fathers. Or mothers :'(

(The Yeerks reproduce through fusion-fission. Three parent Yeerks merge into a single entity, which then breaks apart into hundreds of separate grubs. This destroys the three parent Yeerks in the process.)

Why for God's sake would Yeerks ever agree to reproduce when it means their deaths?
The speices would go extint with out reproduction.

The Yeerks don't appear to be very altruistic, so why would the future fate of the species be enough by itself to prompt a Yeerk to commit suicide?

(How are Yeerks persuaded to commit suicide via reproduction?).
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Re: Father's Day
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2015, 01:21:34 PM »
Any species would go extint without reproduction
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Re: Father's Day
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2015, 01:23:49 PM »
Maybe it's an instinctive thing that they're compelled to do at the end of their life cycle? Like how salmon spawn and then die.

Passing on their genes/reproducing is like the number one instinctive drive of every living thing. Whether or not it kills them in the process is moot.
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