Violence solves Evil Twin Syndrome

[Dragon Sage007]

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Also, Sage's Comic of the Week. =D <p>

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<div style="text-align:center">Proud NaNoWriMo-er, and sick, sick photoshop user! =D</div></p>

[KingOfDoma]

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[Capntastic]

Even jpeg compression artefacts? :3 *Punches Charliechuck in the jaw*

[KingOfDoma]

If I cared, I would have done something about it. I don't. *punches Kyle right back* I'm going to eat now. *eats* <p>

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[BrainWalker]

So what happens if it turns out that doppelgangers really do have the same DNA?

Then they start posting as you and misspell 'doppelganger!' Quick! Everyone, get the chainsaws! BW has been assimilated! --Priam <p><div style="text-align:center"></div></p>Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=priamnevhausten>PriamNevhausten</A]&nbsp; at: 12/4/05 19:30

[Groxley Grunk]

Shit if that's the truth, I've been an evil twin for most of my life.

[KingOfDoma]

Check for genetic decay, dude. You can thank Star Trek for that nugget of information... <p>

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[Groxley Grunk]

I dunno. My jeans seem fine, if a little ripped.

....oh. my. GAWD.

[Kai]

Charles has the right of it. We've also learned this from the cloning problems faced by the Asgard on SG-1. Identical copies are seldom perfect in science fiction. <p>-------------------------
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit and the emperor remains an emperor." -- Sandman "The Kindly Ones" </p>

[The Great Nevareh]

Genetic Decay is a fiction created to make cloning appear worse than it is for the purpose of making it something that's highly undesireable in terms of problem resolution.
"Why don't we just send DNA and brain-imprints (which we know how to make!) and just create exact clones of ourselves (which we know how to do!) as opposed to actually shipping a genetically diverse pool of people across the reaches of space?" "BECAUSE Genetic Drift (which in truth can't exist in single generations without gross malfunctions) means that we'd be twisted, warped, flawed copies! DUH!"

I've always liked the fact that in Star Trek, what the Transporter essentially does is destroy/record you at one point and then make an exact quantum copy of you at another, being a flash Bose-Einstein atomic cloning process. If you can have those kinds of transporters you don't need medical science- just transport someone somewhere and splice the quantum states of their brain and body when wounded/ill with the ones taken of them when they're healthy relying on brain scans/imprints to keep the mind exactly as it was and you heal all wounds instantly without the use of supplies.

On the note of evil twins: If they're your identical twin then their DNA is exactly the same as yours down to the fingerprints, genetic illnesses, and any mutations; non-science-fiction fact. The vast, vast, VAST majority of mutations we end up with happen in the DNA that we not only don't use but don't understand why it's there (and is almost always exactly the same in a species) and are useless for DNA tests, so the tests would only discover differences that you probably would be able to see, anyways. DNA tests are great for similarities, but if two people have exactly the same natural phenotype (like identical twins) then it's going to be very, very hard to tell them apart when it comes to their genotype.

The world of science: Why most people hate it. <p>[---------------------------]
"There is great disorder under Heaven, and the situation is excellent."
-Mao Tse-Tung

"I eat the talking bees because I am George Washington Christ"
-From "Bob the Ball"</p>

[KingOfDoma]

*Nev is kicked out of Hollywood for being unentertaining* <p>

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[Nick Shogun]

<span style="font-size:xx-large;">BEEEEEEEEP</span> <p><div style="text-align:center">

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</div></p>Edited by: PriamNevhausten&nbsp; at: 12/7/05 1:44