The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

brunians at brunians.org · 07 Jul 2010, 22:02 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 18:02:34 -0400
Subject: (urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by
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Ten headed Ravana (sort of an inherently decent Typhon) had, as his name
implies, ten heads until he sacrificed one to Ishvara.

Let's say you had a whole bunch of identical clones.

Raise them together as brothers until they are of age.

And let's say you kept all but one in suspended animation.

And let's further say that you grafted the head of that one onto another
one when you got old.

So now you have two heads.

You're cool with yourself. What do you care?

Lather, rinse, repeat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravana

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>> Indeed, given the degree of tissue matching that would be required for
>> the operation in question to succeed, it would be surprising if Typhon
>> and Piaton were _not_ close relatives.
>
> I considered that, but if tissue matching were necessary, he'd use a
> clone.
>
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