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<blockquote data-quote="Mad Hatter" data-source="post: 2586157" data-attributes="member: 23731"><p>You're right it wouldn't work because the mechanism isn't there. You can't just change everything all at once. That's stupid, which is probably why a little less than half the crew died in painful ways. A mutation isn't a mutation until division occurs. So the alien download would have to encourage human cell propagation. </p><p></p><p>You first have to set up a mechanism. Human DNA wouldn't change immediately and they haven't said that it did. They've just shown overgrown roaches, odd rats, and super powerd humans, and a hybrid represented by the three who heard the sound. All those things don't say triple helix immediately because I beleive that would be mentioned immediately. Which implies that the download is creating mechanisms. This mechanism could be packaged in a fashion similar to what a virus will do that is dormant. The lytic and lysogenic occurrences in viral cells would be an appropriate model for this particular phenomenon. I'm going to assume that you know the intricate details of a virus, so if the alien DNA were to hijack cell processes i.e. translation and transcription or convert alien into human back to alien like how a retorvirus works (this isn't really a good example but it is somewhat close). </p><p></p><p>And in a biological system if the organism lives then obviously something worked and any other mutation kills and doesn't show. I'm assuming that a hybrid will be created that's close to what the aliens are, which would be their ultimate goal. Regardless they aren't going to get a pureblood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mad Hatter, post: 2586157, member: 23731"] You're right it wouldn't work because the mechanism isn't there. You can't just change everything all at once. That's stupid, which is probably why a little less than half the crew died in painful ways. A mutation isn't a mutation until division occurs. So the alien download would have to encourage human cell propagation. You first have to set up a mechanism. Human DNA wouldn't change immediately and they haven't said that it did. They've just shown overgrown roaches, odd rats, and super powerd humans, and a hybrid represented by the three who heard the sound. All those things don't say triple helix immediately because I beleive that would be mentioned immediately. Which implies that the download is creating mechanisms. This mechanism could be packaged in a fashion similar to what a virus will do that is dormant. The lytic and lysogenic occurrences in viral cells would be an appropriate model for this particular phenomenon. I'm going to assume that you know the intricate details of a virus, so if the alien DNA were to hijack cell processes i.e. translation and transcription or convert alien into human back to alien like how a retorvirus works (this isn't really a good example but it is somewhat close). And in a biological system if the organism lives then obviously something worked and any other mutation kills and doesn't show. I'm assuming that a hybrid will be created that's close to what the aliens are, which would be their ultimate goal. Regardless they aren't going to get a pureblood. [/QUOTE]
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