Who is the Long Sun?

Andrew Bollen · 06 Sep 2003, 15:56 · from urth-v0309.mbox · original

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From: "Andrew Bollen" <abollen at internode.on.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Who is the Long Sun?
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 01:56:13 +1000
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Roy wrote:

> All this casual talk of cloning that's been going on lately from various
> quarters strikes me as improbable, given what we know of Typhon. He wanted
> to live forever--and he wanted to do it with the same face he started out
> with. If cloning had been a workable option available to Typhon, why
didn't
> he use it, rather than resort to the bizarre choice of having his own head
> cut off?

Another gap between New Sun and SS/LS. IMO it would be odd if the Typhon of
SS/LS could not clone huimans, given the apparent level of genetic
technology at his command. And as Roy says, if the Typhon of NS could clone,
and given that he can download personailites, a head transplant doesn't seem
like the best solution to his problem.

--=20

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