Non-Sequitor
I have been watching this MXC(Most Extreme Elimination Challenge aka Takishi's Castle) rip-off lately, and it got me to thinking, what if they did the same for an American show? Something like Fear Factor. Or, even better, The Price is Right! Can't you just imagine all the crazy shit they could do with Bob Barker? Now obviously you would lose some of the great slapstick that MXC provides, but I think it has potential.
On a comic/science note for all you geeks out there, check out this story from last month's Discover Magazine. This is especially for anyone who has read Grant Morrison's New X-Men.
It starts out talking about this guy who had to get a paternity test to prove he wasn't the baby's daddy. Except the test said he was. After two years of legal battles the guy proved that he was not the father, and that the testing company had made a mistake. This nicely leads into the next story about a woman who was applying for welfare and was using a DNA test to establish the maternity of her two kids. But the DNA test read as if she was a close relative, not the mother. Even the child that she gave birth to during the ensuring trial tested the same. The woman was apparently a tetragametic chimera. Tetragametic chimera's are apparently created when two eggs are fetilized by two different sperm. Then instead of each developing separetly, they fuse into a single zygote. This results in rare cases of people with different colored eyes, patchy skin, and hermaphrodites, if the zygotes are of the opposite sex. If they are of the same sex, it will sometimes result in some organs being made of cells from the genetic twin and not from the host body.
This on its own has interesting potential for organ transplant. Its suspected that up to 15% of the human population maybe the latter of these two types of chimera's. But what does all this have to do with comics? Xavier was born with one of these, Cassandra Nova. This is why you read more then just comics, because some times reality can be crazier then any thing you or I might dream up. I would also recommend trying the Wikipedia entry on this.
-Dan
On a comic/science note for all you geeks out there, check out this story from last month's Discover Magazine. This is especially for anyone who has read Grant Morrison's New X-Men.
It starts out talking about this guy who had to get a paternity test to prove he wasn't the baby's daddy. Except the test said he was. After two years of legal battles the guy proved that he was not the father, and that the testing company had made a mistake. This nicely leads into the next story about a woman who was applying for welfare and was using a DNA test to establish the maternity of her two kids. But the DNA test read as if she was a close relative, not the mother. Even the child that she gave birth to during the ensuring trial tested the same. The woman was apparently a tetragametic chimera. Tetragametic chimera's are apparently created when two eggs are fetilized by two different sperm. Then instead of each developing separetly, they fuse into a single zygote. This results in rare cases of people with different colored eyes, patchy skin, and hermaphrodites, if the zygotes are of the opposite sex. If they are of the same sex, it will sometimes result in some organs being made of cells from the genetic twin and not from the host body.
This on its own has interesting potential for organ transplant. Its suspected that up to 15% of the human population maybe the latter of these two types of chimera's. But what does all this have to do with comics? Xavier was born with one of these, Cassandra Nova. This is why you read more then just comics, because some times reality can be crazier then any thing you or I might dream up. I would also recommend trying the Wikipedia entry on this.
-Dan
posted by Star Clipper at Tuesday, April 11, 2006
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