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[Sajuro]

NICKjnp wrote...

AshiraShepard wrote...

Wehrmacht007 wrote...

Unlikely, but good thought. If Bioware decided to add that in there for ME3 I wouldn't complain.

Except that it would have to be one mother of an ass-pull to not completely shatter our suspension of disbelief.

Humans and Quarians are biologically incompatible.

Well they made her a romance in the second game which, for some people, was shock... and not in a good way.  She's a little kid... pervs.

She's in her 20s, besides Liara was little more than a teenager in the first game.

[KainrycKarr]

Here we go again with the character wars.

you know, I don't see "talimancers" really bothering anyone outside of their thread, so why can't people simply be and let be?

Modifié par KainrycKarr, 23 juillet 2010 - 04:29 .

[The Big Nothing]

Her body would treat human semen like a biological hazard and destroy it. The end.

[didymos1120]

xI extremist Ix wrote...
You'd need more than 99% same genetic material. Chimpanzees have 99% of our genetic code and yet we cannot reproduce with them

Where are people getting this "99% same genetic material" notion from? No such sharp, well-defined barrier to hybridization is known. We haven't even fully sequenced all that many species yet, so there's really no way it could be known.

And then there's the whole problem of how one calculates percentage difference, which isn't nearly as straighforward as popular science articles tend to imply (for instance, your example: Chimpanzees. The estimate has gone as low as 94%. 98/99% is hardly ever cited anymore, except to note that it's now considered wrong, since it only took gene similarity into account, and not other stuff like copy number).

It's more of a rule of thumb than anything else that the less genetically similar two species are, the less likely they can hybridize. A very good and reliable rule of thumb, but a rule of thumb nonetheless. Yes, at some point it just becomes impossible for the genes to mix barring the use of sophisticated genetic engineering, but often something of a fertility "spectrum" can appear among several closely related species. Sometimes this happens within a single species: a ring species.

In reality, reproductive isolation can be the result of a number of things, not simply raw sequence differences.As mentioned before, chomosome number (karyotype) is one factor due to the way meiosis works, but there are a number of exceptions to that too. Mating behavior is another: non-synchronized mating cycles, differences in preferences for coloration, plumage, different courtship rituals, etc. Researchers find, however, that it is often quite easy to trick members of species relying on behavioral barriers into mating, and nearly as often, healthy offspring result (though they typically would be at a disadvantage outside a lab).

Chimpanzees have 99% of our genetic code and yet we cannot reproduce with them (Why would you?)

Well, I think you're giving humanity too much credit here. If someone hasn't tried at some point, I'd be rather surprised. There's a reason the word "zoophilia" exists after all.

It would only form from an extreme mutation in that a mutant sperm's acrosome contains more volitile enzymes that are able to enter a normal egg.

Yeah, that's not really the primary factor in interspecific infertility. It's certainly one isolating mechanism between otherwise potentially compatible species, but it's a "rule" with many, many exceptions. I.e., not really a rule at all.

Don't get me wrong though: the idea of a Tali-Shep hybrid is still dumb as @ss.

[Siansonea]

KainrycKarr wrote...

Siansonea II wrote...

Sajuro wrote...

I think the Achievement would be called "Lifelong Virgin", because only such people would want to knock up Buckethead.

You're an idiot.

Well, I Guess You Told Me.

How do I go on, in the face of such a witty retort?

[Stanley Woo]

That's enough spam, inappropriate images, and just plain ickiness for one thread, thank you. Temp-bans have been handed out and this thread is done.



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