[B5JMS] Where is JMS? In the past he defended Sins Past

[b5jms at cs.columbia.edu]

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From: arromdee at green.rahul.net (Ken Arromdee)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:25:41 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <20041012051019.04530.00002177 at mb-m02.aol.com>,
Jms at B5 <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote:
>So this has been properly established IN THE REAL WORLD.  

Excuse me?  No, it hasn't.  As I pointed out, progeria only produces rapid
*aging*, not development or growth.  Progeria patients develop diseases such
as arthritis, but they don't become adults fast.

We may use the phrase "rapid aging" to describe it but it isn't the same
as what happens in comics.  It's about as close to anything in the comic
as real-life cloning is to the Spider-Clone; surely you wouldn't claim that
that was properly established just because clones exist in real life?

Would you also claim there is precedence for saying the kids are robots,
because robots exist in the real world?
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       Ken Arromdee / arromdee_AT_rahul.net / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee

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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 12 Oct 2004 23:23:06 GMT

>Excuse me?  No, it hasn't.  As I pointed out, progeria only produces rapid
>*aging*, not development or growth.  Progeria patients develop diseases such
>as arthritis, but they don't become adults fast.

Which, as I already explained, is where the genetic effects of the goblin
serum, now in their DNA, has allowed them to survive the process...it's
modified it a few degrees to one side.  These aren't normal kids because of
their altered DNA so it's reasonable to accept that it would have an effect on
this aspect.

Look...all of comics and science fiction are, to one degree or another, based
on rubber science.  We can argue this all day.  You can choose to accept it, or
not, but you can't say it's not legitimate, any more than ANY kind of SF,
fantasy or comics is acceptable.  

Otherwise stop buying comics altogether, because it's ALL rubber science, and a
lot of it doesn't even aspire to THAT level of justification.

You don't like it.  But that's not the same thing as showing it ain't just as
valid as anything else out there.

 jms

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