🚀 go-pugleaf

>Not to stretch the limits of plausibility beyond it's current tolerances,
>bear in mind TFTD was set in 2040.  Imagine how people who were born in
1900
>must have though, when the atomic bomb made that pretty cloud during the
>closing years of WWII?

I can't imagine anyone with half a brain in the 1940s looking at an idea for
a Nuclear bomb and saying it couldn't exist, since it wasn't exactly high
technology.. But then again, these aren't the same questions. Nuclear
technology is something that developed extremely quickly, mostly out of
theoretical science.
Human DNA mutation and cloning is something that has been explored for
decades, and millions of earth's greatest minds have examined the problem,
which lies in the fact that in order to change an entire human, all of his
cells must be patterned from the same DNA. This problem manifests itself in
a variety of ways, not the least of which being the immune system attacking
organ transplants because of differences.
Now, I would appreciate it if people would try hard to understand what I'm
saying here. If you don't change at least the vast majority of a person's
DNA, you end up with cancer, war between the two organisms, or, if you're
lucky, just a really fucked up looking person.
There are several solutions to this problem, most of which take a vast
amount of planning to execute.
A) a virus, released in mass quantities in the bloodstream of the subject,
which would replace the victim cells' DNA with that of the new creation. The
main problem with this is that it takes time, so the new organism would have
to be biologically compatible with the old organism, for at least the short
time that they would be in contact.
B) a carefully controlled process, most likely taking place within a liquid
suspension contamination chamber. The body would be floated apart, and each
part replaced around the brain, which would ultimately remain the same. Once
again, the new organism would have to be compatible with the old, since the
brain would not have an updated DNA.
Geeez, this is way too long.
Sorry, I guess I just like science in my Sci-Fi.

>    It's just that anything may happen between now and tomorrow, and when
it
>comes to artistic license, well, their are no boundaries.
>