Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, October 23, 2023.
The Kickstarter for Spacetrawler BIG Book THREE is LIVE!
Yes, Choan, that’s a wee bit creepy.
Spacetrawler, audio version For the blind or visually impaired, October 23, 2023.
The Kickstarter for Spacetrawler BIG Book THREE is LIVE!
Yes, Choan, that’s a wee bit creepy.
That could work.
It would take someone like her to think about it.
Depends on funeral practices. Might be preserved samples in medical records. Even a drop of blood would do it.
They have a lot of really heavy machinery in their bathroom, but the toilet seems to work about that same as a human toilet.
You have no idea how radioactive their excrement is. 🙂
She could start by finding a cure for the plague, and then work on a gamete bank for genetic diversity.
The best comparison for her: She’s an Addams.
We’ve not seen her love anyone enough for her to be an Addams…
We have seen that she loves herself more than enough…
With a population that small, you’d also want to capture all the living, get their genetic data and put all of them in stasis until you’re ready to begin. Use that time to research the plague, determine transmission, then cure the survivors one at a time while removing them from stasis. The ones that can still breed should do so, but the non-fertile ones should then teach the culture to the newly born children so the civilization lives as well.
Now that’s creepy!
But also efficient.
She should sit down and read Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.
I consider that novel cruel and unusual punishment.
It was a beeeg disappointment. Two books, the first a very long setup for a thought experiment that’s the second. After Anathem I was expecting much much more.
At least Choan hasn’t considered the possibility of using radiation or chemicals to induce the needed mutations, the majority of them detrimental or lethal, to provide the genetic diversity required to keep natural selection from simply eliminating the race through a change of environment none of them are genetically equipped to survive.
But I’m sure it’ll come to her later. Along with her desire to experiment with the genome to see what else could come out of it. Say, a race of pure Choans. Wouldn’t that be an improvement?
Now I go lie down. The bourbon isn’t helping.
And from panel 6, I can’t figure out how Choan’s neck can turn that way. The bourbon isn’t helping THAT either.
Would an aquatic species use toilets? Arboreal animals are also very difficult to train this way.
Is it bad that upon reading the 2nd panel my mind immediately ended up in the same place as Choan in the 3rd panel? It’s not creepy, it’s just sound reasoning, right? Right?
The other obvious source would be whatever tissue samples are stored in whatever’s left of the planet’s laboratories. There would probably still be some, eg, egg/sperm samples gathering crud in the back of some lab freezer somewhere.
I really want this whole house, or maybe even the entire city, to turn out to be a giant Potty Bot Transformer named Pooptimus Prime.