Aslan Border Wars Brett Kruger (02 Jul 2015 08:57 UTC)
Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Ethan McKinney (02 Jul 2015 12:36 UTC)
Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (07 Jul 2015 20:53 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (07 Jul 2015 22:06 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (08 Jul 2015 14:50 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Richard Aiken (10 Jul 2015 12:53 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (10 Jul 2015 13:05 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Richard Aiken (27 Jul 2015 22:28 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (28 Jul 2015 00:45 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (28 Jul 2015 10:03 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (30 Jul 2015 11:10 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (30 Jul 2015 15:04 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Kelly St. Clair (30 Jul 2015 15:46 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (30 Jul 2015 23:32 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Edward Swatschek (01 Aug 2015 00:27 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (31 Jul 2015 12:21 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (01 Aug 2015 07:39 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Robert (01 Aug 2015 23:46 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (02 Aug 2015 11:25 UTC)
Re: Aslan aroundthe'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (04 Aug 2015 13:57 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (02 Aug 2015 11:29 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Bruce Johnson (30 Jul 2015 22:59 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (01 Aug 2015 15:02 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Richard Aiken (01 Aug 2015 05:09 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Kurt Feltenberger (01 Aug 2015 05:14 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Richard Aiken (01 Aug 2015 05:21 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Kurt Feltenberger (01 Aug 2015 05:25 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Richard Aiken (01 Aug 2015 05:52 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Kurt Feltenberger (01 Aug 2015 06:10 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Richard Aiken (02 Aug 2015 04:46 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (30 Jul 2015 11:07 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (01 Aug 2015 14:54 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Thomas Jones-Low (01 Aug 2015 11:54 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (10 Jul 2015 16:13 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Bruce Johnson (30 Jul 2015 17:30 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars shadow@xxxxxx (31 Jul 2015 06:02 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars shadow@xxxxxx (01 Aug 2015 08:29 UTC)
Re: Aslan around the 'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Phil Pugliese (01 Aug 2015 14:36 UTC)

Re: Aslan around the'Horn'? was Re: [TML] Aslan Border Wars Robert 01 Aug 2015 23:47 UTC

Phil Pugliese wrote:
> IMO. after all the millenia & with a TL so much higher,
> all this has become as moot as a paleolithic man arguing
> that it'll be too difficult to artificially conceive at TL9.

No.
Biology has limits and constants, like physics.
The typical Traveller TL hasn't got to the stage where you can redefine
natural constants like pi.

Genomes are unstable.
For example, human nuclear DNA accumulates 1-2 new mutations with each
generation - about one mutation every 30 million base pairs when gametes are
made.

Mitochondrial DNA has 1000 times the mutation rate, almost the same as RNA
viruses (but the virus generation time is a lot shorter).

Most clinical genetic syndromes causing disability affect multiple sites in
different ways. The complexity is only now being realised with the advent of
modern sequencing techniques.

Then there's epigenetic modifications - methylation and other additions to
DNA bases which affect function, and sporadic mutations also caused by
post-natal environmental exposures. These are the basis of a wide range of
conditions, most notably cancers.

There's no reason to believe alien life is going to be any less complex.

So from time to time someone is going to be infertile or have a disastrous
genome, metabolic profile, or response to fertility treatments that
precludes their use regardless of tech level.

There's always adoption or cloning.

Rob O'Connor