Intergalactic Summit

Quite a theatrical declaration of war. How droll, or at least it would be if it actually happened.

Capsuleers day often, those two most likely had a clone or 3 somewhere to wake up in afterwards.

You are not terribly observant, are you?

I'll go ahead and roll my eyes at this entire 'report', especially fantasy comments from the MIO. Unless I see a verified ACN story, of course.

Or as some of our more idiotic capsuleers sometimes say "cool story bro."

When the MIO speaks, they do so in ways we can confirm.

Ah, the delusions of immortality amongst capsuleers.

Here's the thing: You will all die of cancer.

Radiation damage is cumulative, and it's everywhere. Stand in the sunlight? Radiation. Fly around in a ship and the shields go down? Who knows how many gama rays you're sucking up. Sitting in a pod next to a nuclear power plant? I'm amazed we don't all glow in the dark by now.

Radiation screws with your genes, and that means forever. Your genes get screwed up enough it mutates into cancer. Body turns on itself, destroys itself, trying to fight the ever growing mutant flesh.

When does cancer happen? When you've soaked up enough radiation - which is cumulative - to screw up your genes - which is forever.

Live long enough and cosmic background radiation alone will dose you with enough rads to turn all of your glands into rebellious little death pods. It may take three hundred, maybe even four hundred years, but it will happen.

Let me repeat that: It will happen. It's only a matter of time. A lot longer than it does for "mortal" humans, but that's only because disease & simple old age usually gets them first. But we are not immune to the eventual decay of genetic material - and this is all before going into issues like telemeres and the Hayflick Limit.

And if you haven't figured it out by now, all the clones in New Eden won't save you. Because they're made from your DNA, and they're still sucking up cosmic background radiation even in their clone tubes. And every time you make a new clone you're just copying that same ever-more-damaged DNA pattern over & over again. You're not healing it, you're just copying the same invisible scars over & over again.

So yeah, if you get blown out of your pod you'll come back in a clone. We don't die from combat or accidents. But when it comes to the inevitable sands of time... we've just slowed it down. We haven't stopped it. Cloning won't keep you young forever, either. If you're 25 when you made that clone and 40 when your body dies, well great you're 25 again but the second that clone steps out of the clone vat, guess what? The clock is ticking. And the DNA is unraveling. Eventually, death will find us all.

Only God is Eternal.

If only there were living examples out there of humans who have been alive for hundreds of years without succumbing to easily curable diseases.

If only we had some sort of.... I don't know... shielding to protect us from radiation in space.

Oh, wait.

Idiot.

Look at the Jovians. If anyone ever had mastery over genetics, it's them. Their knowledge on the subject puts the rest of us to shame. And they're still dying from genetic errors. If the Jovians can't fix the slow, inevitable decaying of DNA do you really think anyone else can? I don't.



Umm... it's not like all the radiation or decay is being confined into a certain spot that eventually turns cancerous. The formation of the cancer mutation is simply an effect when a threshold has been reached in that area. That threshold may be different from person to person and organ to organ, but every person and every organ has a threshold and the counter only moves in one direction. They may not hit it at the same time, but cloning doesn't reset anything back to zero. A clone is just a copy, it's not parthenogenesis.

As I said above, if the Jovians can't turn back that genetic clock then I doubt anyone can. Also, even if you could manipulate a grown person's DNA at will you'd still end up killing them. Because even that "repair" would technically be a mutation, and we know how the body reacts to mutations.

Lies. My brother isn't small.

It wasn't a motel, but a container shelter for the poor. And the man was not the Sanmatar, but he was a blind old Brutor. It was beautiful to watch.

And he did go halfway through him, yes. That part is true.

Disregard

*Looks at fake story*

Do you really think an omnipotent, all-powerful capsuleer wouldn't have a few spare "backup" clones? You may lose some memories since the last time you updated them, but you wouldn't be dead, either.