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- From: peacock5293@iscsvax.uni.edu (Greywolf)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.furry
- Subject: Re: Assorted Thoughts on a "Furry" World Setting
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.184100.8929@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 18:41:00 -0600
- References: <1992Nov19.143336.8860@iscsvax.uni.edu> <Nov.20.14.56.30.1992.24166@andromeda.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov21.151306.8910@iscsvax.uni.edu> <1992Nov22.114636.4544@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov22.114636.4544@netcom.com>, foxen@netcom.com (Foxen) writes:
- > peacock5293@iscsvax.uni.edu (Greywolf) writes:
- >>
- >>What's a "Tyrell" corporation? (Is this a reference to some sf or fantasy book
- >>that I haven't read but just about everybody else has?)
- >
- > The Tyrell Corporation is a corporation in the movie "Blade Runner" (based on
- > Phillip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"). They are the
- > creators of the "Replicants", or what amount to organic androids. The
-
- Thanks for the info. =) Yes, I've seen the movie some time ago, but the name
- didn't stick in my mind. I was somewhat confused by the movie, though, as to
- *how* replicants were created. I sort of got the impression that they were
- assembled Frankenstein-monster-like, with all the body parts being constructed
- (grown?) separately.
-
- That brings me into something else about synthetics, furries, etc., that has
- often been brought up in the email responses to my postings (or touched on):
- How would synthetics be *made*? Could they reproduce? Are they all "grown",
- and, if so, do they go through a normal childhood stage, or do they just pop
- out fully-grown mature adults?
-
- For my personal preference (set in this hypothetical world-setting I was
- bouncing around an idea for) I would think that the critters would be grown in
- an artificial womb, but upon birth, they're raised from childhood on up. I
- find it kind of hard to understand the concept of somehow magically being able
- to produce genetically engineered creatures who automatically have the full
- experience of what would take a human years to go through. At least, I doubt
- I'd have that sort of tech capability in a setting I'd write. (Maybe if your
- world is one of those cybertech societies where you can get skill chips to plug
- into your brain and such, it wouldn't be too far off.)
-
- As for reproduction, I'd probably assume these synthetics (again for my
- setting) would be sterile. Why? Well...
-
- a) IMHO, it'd probably be hard enough to construct a genetically-engineered
- creature with really strict guidelines. Making it *also* able to
- reproduce itself would be even *more* difficult. From what little
- knowledge I have of genetics (and it's *little*) I gather that significantly
- splicing genes is likely to produce something that can't replicate its
- own pattern.
- b) If a synthie leaves your corporation, at least it won't be starting a
- family elsewhere. If you've got a really good "design", you would
- still have the control over "production" of that "line" of synthie.
- c) Your corporation doesn't have to pay for maternity leave. Solved *that*
- problem, huh? (Well, maybe not. Somebody still has to care for the
- littl'uns...)
-
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