05-14-2011, 02:10 AM | #21 |
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Re: Them TL^ words [Superscience] . . .
Mad superscientists might also enjoy Lamarckism, the transmission of acquired characteristics, so they can create new species by surgically altering animals/people and thereafter they will breed true.
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05-14-2011, 06:34 AM | #22 |
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Re: Them TL^ words [Superscience] . . .
Hum... this thread is giving me a lot of good ideas for my "modern" setting... I loved the contributions so far!
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05-14-2011, 08:07 AM | #23 |
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Re: Them TL^ words [Superscience] . . .
Actually, I don't think surgeries would affect it that way in lamarckism. As I remember, it would require an actual effort from the being to affect its blood and inheritance. But you could still make interesting things mixing bloods and making the creatures do an effort in the wanted way.
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05-14-2011, 08:12 AM | #24 |
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05-14-2011, 12:19 PM | #25 |
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Re: Them TL^ words [Superscience] . . .
Aren't those, especially the former, only really appropriate for divergent TLs? If it has Ether for instance it has to be TL5+x (and might not even be superscience at TL5; the Ether was real science), since the Michelson–Morley experiment and Special Relativity basically define TL6 in Physics.
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05-14-2011, 12:38 PM | #26 |
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Re: Them TL^ words [Superscience] . . .
Nietzscheian (or 'anime physics world')- Whatever does not kill you DOES make you stronger, as medicine advanced to allow recovery from horrific things like being a ground 0 of an atomic blast people start becoming tougher and tougher, as they become tougher they can endure more things that ALMOST kill them. Such a world likely has radically retarded medical knowledge for long term treatment, more advanced 'immediate survival' treatments, and many of its members are scarred super-humans.
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Re: Them TL^ words [Superscience] . . .
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05-14-2011, 01:16 PM | #29 |
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Re: Them TL^ words [Superscience] . . .
What he's got here is an odd form of "inheritance of acquired characteristics", to which Lamarck's name it often attached though his actual theory is somewhat different from the caractured form usually presented.
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05-14-2011, 01:24 PM | #30 |
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Re: Them TL^ words [Superscience] . . .
Lamarck didn't actually think this. It would have been easy to disprove experimentally.
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