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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2009, 08:00:20 PM »
I'd go with the Frolis maneuver, because of blame, and I would feel really weird having some Yeerk as my twin.  It would be kinda disturbing.
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2009, 08:26:42 PM »
i would probably do ax's technique. no two of me would be on the earth..
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2009, 08:30:08 PM »
Yeah, I'd definitely donate if they used the frollis maneuver thing. I mean, it wouldn't be any different than donating blood or whatever. Less painful than donating blood, too!
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2009, 08:30:48 PM »
much.
i wonder how painful acquiring would be without the 'sleepy' sensation it causes? ;D
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2009, 08:52:56 PM »
For about a million different personal and legal reasons, I think it would definitely be illegal to do it without a Frolis maneuver. I certainly wouldn't want a Yeerk who was physically identical to me wandering around, not to mention the fact that there could easily be cases of identity theft or mistaken identity of criminals, etc.
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2009, 01:01:11 AM »
Quote from: Phoenix004 on February 10, 2009, 08:52:56 PM
For about a million different personal and legal reasons, I think it would definitely be illegal to do it without a Frolis maneuver. I certainly wouldn't want a Yeerk who was physically identical to me wandering around, not to mention the fact that there could easily be cases of identity theft or mistaken identity of criminals, etc.
Yeah that was my first thought.
But even knowing that someone is made up of 1/4 or 1/5 of me..creepy!
 
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2009, 02:45:12 AM »
Of course I would! But except if the guy is a true friend I wanna keep as twin (and wanna be my twin ^^), he'd have to use the DNA-mixing.
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2009, 05:15:58 AM »
depends. if it's a yeerk that INSISTS he be an exact duplicate of me, I'd flat-out refuse to give him my DNA. If he's genuinely nice about it, yeah I'd probably give him my DNA regardless of using the frolis maneuver or not...
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2009, 03:35:25 PM »
Quote from: Terenia on February 10, 2009, 07:59:12 PM
Identical twins still have differences. For example, different fingerprints. There'd be NO way to detect differences with a morphed Yeerk.


I'd offer my DNA, if there was a frolis performed.

Identical twins do have different fingerprints enough they share the same DNA, it is how they grow and develop, so wouldn't it be the same for a yeerk using the same reasoning?
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2009, 09:17:02 PM »
Actually, that's either a (possible) KASU or morphing somehow manages to capture non-genetic information.

Non-cannon, but somewhat related:

Why then is it that I can morph both summer

and winter

coats of M. erminea at will?

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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2009, 09:19:36 PM »
I wouldn't, probably for the same reason I don't give blood.

It's mine
I know, it's kinda selfish, and there's the "what if you needed it and no one would give" question, but still, I believe in working with what you got for as long as you can.
It'd weird me out too much to think there was something out there with my DNA. Just me I guess :-\
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2009, 12:54:12 AM »
Nope, let it suffer  >:D
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #27 on: February 12, 2009, 02:12:16 PM »
I don't think the world would benefit very much from there being two of me, so the last option.
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #28 on: February 12, 2009, 08:30:48 PM »
Quote from: wildweathel on February 11, 2009, 09:17:02 PM
Actually, that's either a (possible) KASU or morphing somehow manages to capture non-genetic information.

Non-cannon, but somewhat related:

Why then is it that I can morph both summer

and winter

coats of M. erminea at will?




I'm not sure you could. I think you need to acquire two separate morphs, one with its winter and one with its summer coat. However, if you became a nothlit, would its coat still change? Probably?

Similar to having a morph of a lion cub and an adult lion. You can't just choose what age the lion is when you morph it.
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Re: Would you give up your DNA?
« Reply #29 on: February 12, 2009, 11:36:58 PM »
The David trilogy made me wonder about morphs aging actually, because as it stood I don't see how a 13 year old kid as intelligent as David seemed to think he was, could think he could keep morphing a 15(ish) year old for years and not have anyone notice he isn't getting any older, yet no one pointed this out to David so I wondered "hey, maybe the morphs age while you're in them" but that didn't make any sense really since essentially once you morph out you discard any changes made to the animal, i.e. their injuries aren't there the next time you morph, why would any time passed in that body affect them?

There's a lot about morphing that we just have to guess about, but when you really think about it you should be able to morph a winter coat, it's in the DNA. Of course if Rachel can't revert her hair style back to normal (at one book, I think 2, she mentions that she got a bad haircut and wishes that morphing could fix it, then states that it can't) I doubt you can really dictate how the animal will look when you're done, it's just going to be exactly as it was when you acquired it.
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