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To: boogerbear
But you’re still talk small stuff. You’re talking about the possibility of two appendix sized organs (which when healthy is about the size of the last knuckle on your pinky) somewhere near or possibly IN the spine, said organs would need to connect to one or more of the primary systems in the body.

Okay, so here's the end point we've now reached: in order to not be bothered by the fact that Cylons have things like glowing spines (not to mention that they are super-transmitter/receivers, and have super-strength), but everyone in BSG acts helpless to distinguish them biologically, I have to tell myself a story like this:

The Cylon-robots spent years and years bioengineering humanoids that they could control, so they could infiltrate human society. They made them like humans in every way imaginable. They gave them personalities and souls. BUT, they also took the trouble to add a little, barely detectable (and purposeless?) 'enzyme sac' at each end of the spine that would secrete biolumniescence when they had sex.

I agree, that would basically resolve my 'glowing spine' thing logically. It would also be extremely stupid. This is part and parcel of what I'm trying to say: in order to resolve this sort of thing I have to bend over backwards and tell myself an extremely stupid story. This is a knock against BSG, pure and simple.

I’m saying you should just accept these things.

Well, I don't. Now what?

All of them have a certain level of plausibility.

That level being "very low", in the cases I've mentioned.

We KNOW creatures can be modified to make bioluminescence with minute enough changes that [..]

Well, that's great. And the REASON Cylons 'modified' their engineered humans to have glowing spines = _____?

[a dozen or two more sentences into your nth post to me about how the glowing spines maybe could be interpreted as making sense after all]

I haven’t labored at all.

Heh. Nope, not at all.

153 posted on 06/27/2008 3:32:53 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: Dr. Frank fan

No what you have to do is understand the difference between what’s said in the show and how you’re interpreting it. I don’t think anybody in the show ever said there are no biological differences, all they said was there were no differences THEY COULD FIND. There’s a major scope difference there. Quite possibly had they had more than 3 doctors to handle 50,000 people they could have spent the time to do a full dissection and found the source of the glowing spine and then had a biological difference. But they only had 3 doctors to handle 50,000 people and 1 of them is a shrink and and another turned out to be a murderer so they don’t really have the time for full dissections, so they have FOUND no differences.

That’s the simple little reality in the show.

If you’ll notice 99% of what I’ve written is taking apart your assumption. That’s not labor explaining the show, that’s labor explaining your brain. The stuff in the show is simple, it’s all just one or two minor logical leaps away from stuff we know or theorize is possible today. All the other stuff is you assuming absolutes that have never once been stated in the show then complaining that those unstated absolutes are unsupported by events in the show. Since they never actually say there are no biological differences, then the fact that the glowing spine would seem to indicate some level of biological difference is not a contradiction. You assume since they could find a difference in whatever probably minor testing they’ve done equals no biological difference, but that’s YOUR assumption. Your assumptions make a lot of labor, but it’s fun labor (I actually enjoy deep analysis of shows), the show itself makes very little.


154 posted on 06/27/2008 3:42:54 PM PDT by boogerbear
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