Tuesday, February 13, 2007

What would you do... ?

**********Spoiler Alert **********
If you ever hope to read or listen to the last four books in my Listening to section do not read this. This involves one of the main plot points of those books.

********** You have been warned **********

In the last four books I have been listening to the following basic situation has been developing:

- Petra and "Bean" decide to have a baby by Invetro fertilization.
- They have 6 embryos, one they use and 5 they have stored.
- 5 are stolen and implanted into other 'hosts'
- There baby is born, 2 weeks early.
- They are able to track down at least one of the other babies that are born(so far)
? What would you do. Do you feel like you have the right to now take back your babies if you can find them?

Here are the rest of the details:
- "Bean" was a test tube baby. His DNA was altered in a way that makes him ultra intelligent but he is also going to die before he is 20 of giantism.
- The DNA will pass on to most of his offspring. They were having Invetro so they could try to test the embryos and make sure they did not pass on the DNA.
- The person they were have test the embryos was the person that changed the DNA and created Bean.
- He did not have a real test(but said he did), Petra figured this out but she was desperate to have Beans baby and did not let him know that she suspected this.
- The Dr. was working for a crazy guy that was trying to take over the world.
- After Petra was impregnated the other embryos were "stolen" and deals were made with either a mother or father to carry the carry and deliver the babies. They were given a code that when received they were supposed to move. They would have to move when it was discovered that they had one of the embryos.

So basically the embryos, which Petra hoped to use after bean was dead to have more babies,were kidnapped. One of the characters says this and adds that now you are getting back what is yours...

It's still odd. I really thought that Petra would not be able to take the baby away from the first mother that she went to see. The deal there was that the father was sterile and they were going to use invetro themselves. The wife did not know of that she was carrying one of Bean and Petra's babies.

Oh, when they get all of the babies and they are found to have the changed DNA the plan is to send them in a ship at near light speed and then bring them back. Traveling at that speed away from the earth would feel like a couple months for them as hundreds of years passed on the earth. Back on earth they would continue to try and cure the disease...

So would you be able to take the babies... do they have a right to take the babies... What if they did not have the altered DNA...



Monday, February 12, 2007

[From Google Reader] Extreme Parking

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Monday, February 05, 2007

So, I hit a deer last night...

Driving home from my parent's house last night I caught a flash of a deer coming across the road to my left. I hit the breaks and as the car screeched along I felt like I had perfectly lead the deer into the line of fire. Bump, bump. I think I hit him pretty solid. Didn't clip is front or back legs, just a solid square hit. It looked like, to me and Sarah, that guts and blood went flying as we hit and he fell on the hood. At that point I didn't see what happened I pulled over to the side looking in the rear view to make sure nobody was behind me and to locate the dear. I was sure he was going to be laying on the ground. A car drove up and asked if we were ok. The deer was not there... Sarah says it flipped and landed upside down, got up and then took off into the woods. I imagined the deer running along with its guts hanging out... bleh. I got out to take a look at the front of the car... no blood or guts. Just some deer hair and a dented hood and broken left turn signal cover (tiny grrr).

Sarah took some of the hair and lit a candle for the deer. I would think he was hurt but maybe it looked worse than it was.

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TheForce.Net - Latest News - Simpsons Star Wars End Credits

Last weeks episode of the Simpson's ended with credits dedicating the episode to all who had died in the Star Wars films. The lit of names includes Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Greedo, and so much more. Click here to check it out on Youtube.com.