At 03:08 PM 6/18/00 -0400, you wrote:

From: "Ken Arromdee" <arromdee@rahul.net>

> I'd like to point out a scientific mistake I've seen many, many times
over.
>
> DNA is a set of instructions for how the body develops.  If it's already
> developed, changing it won't result in more than a person with the wrong
sex
> chromosomes and maybe some hormone problems.  Someone whose genes were
changed
> to the opposite sex won't become the opposite sex, for the same reason
that
> if you lose a leg you won't grow another one even though your DNA codes
for
> having two legs.

I once had a set of instructions for how my body was to develop, but I got
exposed to an awful genetic recombinatory virus and died.  Luckily, the
virus changed it so that I didn't really die and instead mutated into some
sort of pre-historic Betazoidian lizard creature.  Then all the dormant
leprons turned on and I became God.

In other words, I found the story amusing, and the fact that it isn't
scientifically accurate shouldn't really matter.

Washuu's pseudoscience was a plot device. What was important part of the story was the manner and path in which the Nerima Virus spread.

The story was swell, Chris.  I laughed.  I laughed some more.

I've done my job then! ^_^

Then I found
my box of Ding Dongs and ate one, and the laughed again.

You go, boy!

C.
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