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| Comic for 7 December 2012; "There is no duck!" | |
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| phyzome | Dec 7 2012, 04:10 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.agirlandherfed.com/woodpulp/1.1071.html So uh, wow. I didn't pick up on that at all. Very nice reveal of a somewhat disturbing gamble. I guess *someone* has to be the guinea pig for child implants. Edited by phyzome, Dec 7 2012, 04:12 PM.
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| yfnsa | Dec 7 2012, 05:10 PM Post #2 |
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Doesn't HAVE to be a chip. Maybe having a chip attunes you such that your child is more likely to be on that wavelength. Hope and Mike are there "naturally", why not the munchkin? |
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| Taolan | Dec 9 2012, 06:58 AM Post #3 |
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Remember all the stuff about how the psychics are all old bloodlines, and yet somehow Hope was an accident? All that stuff about presence and exposure and attunement? We know there is a biological component to seeing the ghosts and the projections. It is reasonable to assume that there is a genetic component in there somewhere, that the people most compatible with the chip were probably missing a few brain chemicals or something to see ghosts as it is, so little Avery being born of two chipped Agents will have her biological makeup all ready to go. More than likely, if Carlotta and Mako had found each other outside the program I would think Avery would be able to see ghosts anyways. Here's a thought experiment to explain my logic - let's say for argument that half a million years ago, there were 100,000 humans. 1 of them gets exposed to something which causes a mutation which results in the 'psychic' gene. He can see ghosts, but there are no ghosts to see. And he is not aware enough of the world around him to be able to capture and manipulate the other energies involved. Let's say this is the human being who masters fire the first time, albeit totally by accident. Now give us a few hundred thousand years, his gene gets spread through the generations so the end result is still about 1 in 100,000. Once you break into the first multinational age of history there are probably about 10,000 human beings with the ability to see ghosts and other variations of psychic abilities brought on through gene randomization from diversifying parentage. These 10,000 are fairly concentrated initially, but start to spread out now that there are trade routes and other peoples. Things happen, their numbers grow and recede and they spread and decline. Eventually the gene gets so diluted and varied that you have a number of carriers of the gene in a recessive form, or they have some but not the full sequence. So what ends up happening is bits and pieces get spread around, but the old families remain 'pure'. You get the occassional oddball like Hope, but societal things happen. Either they suppress their own powers, or they go nuts and attract unwanted attention, or they are branded as 'witches' or the local equivalent, or maybe the old families accept them as a lost child. |
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| yfnsa | Dec 10 2012, 03:26 AM Post #4 |
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Remember? Nope. But thanks for the reminder. I was thinking it was more like in Dr Who when Amy and Rory conceive their baby on their wedding night in the TARDIS. More of a nurture/environment effect than a nature/genetic. But I've been plenty wrong before. |
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| Taolan | Dec 13 2012, 04:00 PM Post #5 |
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WHOVIANS UNITE! Maybe it's a bit of both? |
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| Jordan | Dec 13 2012, 05:36 PM Post #6 |
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So it looks like three mechanisms have been proposed for Avery's ability. I'll add a couple more to those.
Personally, I think the most likely is parental attunement, followed by the chip, exposure and genetic predisposition. Ghostly interference seems very unlikely, but I'm not discounting entirely it as a possibility. Edited by Jordan, Dec 13 2012, 05:43 PM.
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