--- SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com wrote:
>No, I'm not saying it can't be done, just that it
can't be done with
gene
therapy. If you wanted to do it then growing a new
body and doing a
brain
transplant would be far more feasible. It's like
flying to the moon.
You can
get there, but not on a hang glider. Advances in
technology might make
it
easier to get there, but you still can't do it on a
hang glider.>
>Sorry for sounding so unerringly negative in some of
these posts. I
hadn't
intended it to be this way. Even though I don't think
genetics will
yield
furries, perhaps a combination of biological and
cybernetic engineering
might. A cyborg furry might be the most readily
available approach. And
who
knows? Perhaps such technology might allow either the
creation of a new
body
for a host brain, or the surgical alteration of the
existing body into
something else. Advances in VR related technology may
also allow one to
at
least experience such a thing. And reality is
overrated anyway, eh?>
If gene therapy doesn't work, then what about
Nanotechnology? Machines that eventually might be
small enough to enter the cells of a living person and
rearrange gene sequences like they were pull-apart
jigsaw puzzles? Of course,the machines would need to
have the precise sequence to rewrite the gene code
into, but if one can create a stable code, then why
can't it be implemented? Of course, it probably
wouldn't change the person overnight(I allowed six
months in the story I wrote with it in), and the
person had to get their external features changed
first to match the species they wanted to become by
surgery, but if it's done correctly, then why should
there be any problems with the person's genetics
remaining stable? Surely something done by a
programmable nano-bot would be far more predictable
than that done by a retro-virus.
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Received on Sat Sep 06 2003 - 02:25:50 CDT