10/31/2023 0 Comments Dren splice tailThis is by no means the correct word for Dren's body changing as she grew, and a scientist wouldn't make this mistake. This is more nitpicking than anything else, but in the montage of Dren growing from just after birth to toddler, Elsa says that Dren is evolving. It had to look and act at least somewhat human, or it didn't push the proverbial buttons. (Excluding the whole sci-fi angle, of course.) That would be what we call a rational decision. So Elsa just wanted a child substitute that she could have total control of, that was loving and obedient to her. For an animal that size to maintain its body temperature in a cold environment like that purely through metabolic action, Dren would need to consume enormous amounts of food- far more than was shown- something close to or exceeding her/his body mass every twenty four hours.If she has a very high metabolism (which is likely given her growth rate) she would produce enough internal heat to offset the heat lost to the environment.They have an indoor heater in the barn, but it's hopelessly small for a space as big as that, yet she never shows any discomfort from the cold. How is Dren not freezing to death, most of the time? She has no hair and negligible amounts of body fat, yet she can run barefoot in snow, and dip in a pond with no adverse effects. Take, for instance, Wren ignoring the unfortunate circumstances of her creation for a moment, would you be able to judge whether she is fully sapient and deserves human rights, or not? Mixing DNA from most creatures doesn't run the risk of creating something that could be considered a person with human rights. For a lot of people, anything that even smells like an experiment on humans is an ethical line that they don't want to cross. Just for the record, sheep are genetically farther from goats than humans are from chimps. We've had sheep-goat chimeras in real life, so it's not entriely far-fetched. It seems to be a legal issue human cloning is illegal, non-human gene splicing is not.But apparently patchwork creatures like Fred and Ginger haven't inspired any sort of protests? and we're supposed to buy that a bio-tech company that's gone that far would suddenly balk at throwing human DNA in the mix? So Clive and Elsa's bosses wouldn't let them use human DNA in their gene splicing experiment because of potential moral outrage.
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