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- From: jdemers@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.furry
- Subject: Re: Assorted Thoughts on a "Furry" World Setting
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.224402.5770@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 22:44:02 EST
- References: <1992Nov19.143336.8860@iscsvax.uni.edu> <1992Nov22.184100.8929@iscsvax.uni.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov22.184100.8929@iscsvax.uni.edu>, peacock5293@iscsvax.uni.edu (Greywolf) writes:
- > 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.)
-
- Part of what blade runner was about was the faact that the 'Replicants'
- didn't have any of the experiances that normals have becasuse they were
- 'decanted' fully grown. Watch it near the end, Ruger Huars (sp?) charactor
- goes into that in his final speech.
- >
- > 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...)
- >
- > --
- > -Jordan .. PEACOCK5293@iscsvax.uni.edu
- > .OO. Jordan Peacock (Jordan Greywolf)
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- > -- Cedar Falls, IA 50613
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