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Post by ExoticHunter on Jan 18, 2008 1:05:45 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, that thing is convenient.
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Post by Sweet Eet on Jan 19, 2008 0:00:33 GMT -5
How about the transporter... that would be so cool.
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Post by Kei-Lin on Jan 19, 2008 14:40:18 GMT -5
Unless it malfunctions!
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Post by ExoticHunter on Jan 20, 2008 6:43:50 GMT -5
Yeah! Have you seen "The Fly" (the transporter malfunctions)
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Post by Kei-Lin on Jan 20, 2008 11:06:42 GMT -5
No, but I've heard about it from absolutely everywhere... This guy builds a teleporter and tests it on the dog, who comes back with his atoms scrambled, right? Then the guy tests it on himself and his atoms are hybridized with fly atoms.
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Post by Sweet Eet on Jan 20, 2008 14:15:49 GMT -5
Yes, correct. But the dog comes back a total mess - but ALIVE... moaning and suffering, and there was nothing that could be done...
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Post by Kei-Lin on Jan 20, 2008 21:24:41 GMT -5
Couldn't you reverse the electric convulsion patterns of the machine and run the dog through again, changing it back to normal?
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Post by Sweet Eet on Jan 22, 2008 19:13:09 GMT -5
That sounds really logical - more than 20 years after the film was made. At the time is was released it was frightening, shocking. Beyond most people's ability to grasp.
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Post by Robocop on Jan 22, 2008 21:26:56 GMT -5
Terminator, you're too smart for your own good...
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Post by Sweet Eet on Jan 24, 2008 19:56:25 GMT -5
Nah, can't be too intelligent...
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Post by Kei-Lin on Jan 24, 2008 22:06:17 GMT -5
I saw the remake of The Fly yesterday. I wasn't that impressed by it.
Basically, his teleporter became an effective gene splicer - with severe results!
But if his DNA were really hybridized with fly DNA (which is what the computer said happened), he would have emerged as a grotesque human-fly hybrid, not changed slowly as shown in the flim.
If he turned into a fly slowly, then he had a weak mutation or something similar, which I don't see how is possible if he and the fly were broken into atoms, transported through a wire, and reintegrated in another teleportation device. That wouldn't even have made him a hybrid! It would have put the fly's atoms into his atoms. And the fly is so small compared to him, a few fly atoms mixed in with his normal atoms wouldn't have done anything.
The entire plot is just... scientifically incorrect. Good horror, though.
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Post by ExoticHunter on Jan 24, 2008 23:29:45 GMT -5
85% of human DNA is a series of totally inactive genetic sequences. Many gene express themselves over time - in some cases this is why we develop bad eyesight, diabetes, schizophrenia... a few fly genes could have had the effect shown. The movie was made in 1986 and it's really quite accurate.
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Post by Kei-Lin on Jan 25, 2008 0:54:01 GMT -5
The machine was never shown to have spliced his DNA, I think it disassembled his atoms and reassembled them. I don't see why it would have spliced their genes together in the first place. Mixed the fly's atoms with his atoms, I understand. But splice their genes? Gene sequencers have to be programmed a certain way, and they don't disassemble 3-D matter into quantum particles...
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Post by Optimus Prime on Jan 25, 2008 16:14:36 GMT -5
I've never seen this movie and don't know what the heck you're talking about... Bio-engineering is pretty interesting, though!
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Post by ExoticHunter on Jan 26, 2008 0:24:19 GMT -5
"The Fly" is a movie where a scientist builds a type of transporter, which has major problems in the beginning. It recombines the genes of the item being transported. The scientist tries it on himself after awhile and a fly enters the chamber while he is trying it. The genes of the scientist and the fly become hybridized and all kinds of gory stuff happens.
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