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Cross Species Breeding in fantasy sifi
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: MoSeS_ on August 03, 2010, 01:27:45 PM ---Yeah, I think it wouldn't be hard to make cross species plausible.
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If you had different species of humans as closely related as lions and tigers or horses and donkeys, maybe.
If you have something that evolved on another planet, you'll have an uphill battle convincing anyone who knows any biology that it even uses DNA, let alone that it can breed with a human.
MoSeS:
--- Quote from: neurovore on August 03, 2010, 02:51:53 PM ---If you had different species of humans as closely related as lions and tigers or horses and donkeys, maybe.
If you have something that evolved on another planet, you'll have an uphill battle convincing anyone who knows any biology that it even uses DNA, let alone that it can breed with a human.
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True, but I think most people will just accept that it's fiction and only a handful of readers, like maybe 1%, will actually go hey "how can that alien and human breed". Moreover, I think it would be ironic that they would be concerned with the breeding but not even flinch at the idea and existance of aliens.....hmmmm....
I would love for someone to tell me "un-uh, a Na'Vi can't mate with a human because their genes aren't compatible"
There are so many responses to that. Such as "sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the Na'Vi aren't real" or "are you effing kidding me, prove it"
I am a nerd, but I have to draw the line somewhere, when it comes to fantasy sci-fi breeding, I say anything goes.
MoSeS:
What would Jabba the Hut and Princess Leia's children have looked like?
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: MoSeS_ on August 03, 2010, 03:11:34 PM ---True, but I think most people will just accept that it's fiction and only a handful of readers, like maybe 1%, will actually go hey "how can that alien and human breed".
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Well, most people don't want to read SF in the first place, because for some reason they find worlds exactly like ours in every respect except for a bunch of non-existent normal people doing non-existent normal things more plausible than one with a large sweeping consistent set of changes.
--- Quote ---Moreover, I think it would be ironic that they would be concerned with the breeding but not even flinch at the idea and existance of aliens.....hmmmm....
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Are you serious ?
In a universe this big, with physical laws and chemistry working this way, the hard thing to sell is that there aren't aliens.
MoSeS:
I am not debating wether or not aliens exist, that would be a whole different thread.
What I am saying is for those who read fiction involving extraterrestrial beings shouldn't have too many qualms with believing that one of said beings could mate with a human.
And that the fiction could easily be written to make mating plausible.
For example: the alien technology makes breeding possible
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