What Boredom and No FFXI gets you....
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:50 am
Here i am, sitting at work, and bored to tears and all i can think about is... How long before an evil mind in science figures out how to make and/or genetically engineer a real life Mithra!!
Ok here are some of the things needed to pull this off. And being into science it kinda scares me how close we could be to actually acheiving this.
1. An Understanding of how the "HOX" genes work, these are the genes that control development in an embryo and control what cells become your bain cells and what cells become cells in your fingers and toes. These genes act as a switch board. Suprisingly during the developmental stage of most vertabrates all embroyes look pretty much the same, it is by activating of these genes that turns something into either an aligator or a cow.
OR
2. The ability to model an adult animal based on DNA input and the reverse extrapolation of a physical changes back to DNA source. (Basically you would load a physical model for a human and then "tweak it" to Mithra specs and the system would give you back what DNA code would be needed) The cool thing about this is that you could build all the FFXI races using this tool cause the only limit would be your imagination and physical laws of science.
OR
3. Just take a human Brain and figure out how to keep it alive and happy in a jar and then place that brain in a jar inside of a android body that happens to be built like a mithran.
OR
4. Play FFXI some more and don't worry about it!!!
Ok here are some of the things needed to pull this off. And being into science it kinda scares me how close we could be to actually acheiving this.
1. An Understanding of how the "HOX" genes work, these are the genes that control development in an embryo and control what cells become your bain cells and what cells become cells in your fingers and toes. These genes act as a switch board. Suprisingly during the developmental stage of most vertabrates all embroyes look pretty much the same, it is by activating of these genes that turns something into either an aligator or a cow.
OR
2. The ability to model an adult animal based on DNA input and the reverse extrapolation of a physical changes back to DNA source. (Basically you would load a physical model for a human and then "tweak it" to Mithra specs and the system would give you back what DNA code would be needed) The cool thing about this is that you could build all the FFXI races using this tool cause the only limit would be your imagination and physical laws of science.
OR
3. Just take a human Brain and figure out how to keep it alive and happy in a jar and then place that brain in a jar inside of a android body that happens to be built like a mithran.
OR
4. Play FFXI some more and don't worry about it!!!
