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Post by rmarks1 on Apr 27, 2019 23:36:56 GMT -5
Well if a professor says it, it must be true.
Bob
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Post by faskew on Apr 29, 2019 8:17:29 GMT -5
>interbreeding to create a new hybrid species that could one day save Earth from climate change and other disasters.
This is the basic background plot for all the many years of "The X-Files". With the same basic flaw. DNA is earth-specific. Critters from somewhere else would not have DNA, at best only something like it. And "interbreeding" is a very officiant way to mix species even with similar DNA...imagine trying to mate spinach with a dog. So, if they're anything like us in technology, they would figure out how to tweak their DNA equivalent without needing any outside material. Interbreeding is an old, 1940s SF trope (Mars Needs Women), not real science. We can already do wonders with DNA and we're just getting started with it. Our DNA skills are much further advanced than our faster-than-light travel skills and always will be. Plus, our destruction of the earth is about species extinction and rising sea levels, things that interbreeding would not solve. Unless we make people with gills who can live off plankton. LOL
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