MissingSpace
Nov18
Rusty’s already writing up the research grant proposal.
↓ Transcript
na-Nilina
Uh, are you OK?
Luna
Are most Orion hanyo genetically male?
Sky
Most? Yeah. But how-?
Luna
It's an adaptation to living in space.
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Luna
In spite of fertility problems, Orions still manage to keep their numbers up. That means that overall, infertile and hanyo Orions still fit into the survival of the species. That’s why those traits haven’t bred out over the centuries.
The Y chromosome is more readily damaged by radiation, but it also happens to the X chromosome, too. So there must be some kind of check on genetic stability, either in your own makeup, or something done in the gestation tanks. Males with the most severe damage don’t ever make it to a fetal stage. Other males become hanyo instead. Only the healthiest, most genetically stable Orions have children. In litters. Non-breeders still contribute by caring for the children of friends and family members.
The mutation that allows most modern Earth humans to drink milk probably goes all the way back to livestock domestication. Around 10,000 years ago, or more. We know Orions are an off-shoot of humanity, which it would seem, goes back to before the lactose adaptation.
I think there was something about the people that became Orions dying off due to starvation and competition. Orions need a high protein diet, but not like Neanderthals that were almost obligate carnivores. I’d have to say this would have been in the early part to middle of the last ice age.
We know that Neanderthals died off during that time, but they were really robust. Orions are not. Denisovans, we don’t know so much about. Especially since they practically vanished from the fossil record. We know that there was infrequent interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovan, and Modern Humans. It’s been suggested that Nepalese and Tibetans, who are adapted to high altitude living and higher solar radiation tolerance, may have Denisovan genes.
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Both Luna and Sky
Orions are the missing Denisovans!
Uh, are you OK?
Luna
Are most Orion hanyo genetically male?
Sky
Most? Yeah. But how-?
Luna
It's an adaptation to living in space.
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Luna
In spite of fertility problems, Orions still manage to keep their numbers up. That means that overall, infertile and hanyo Orions still fit into the survival of the species. That’s why those traits haven’t bred out over the centuries.
The Y chromosome is more readily damaged by radiation, but it also happens to the X chromosome, too. So there must be some kind of check on genetic stability, either in your own makeup, or something done in the gestation tanks. Males with the most severe damage don’t ever make it to a fetal stage. Other males become hanyo instead. Only the healthiest, most genetically stable Orions have children. In litters. Non-breeders still contribute by caring for the children of friends and family members.
The mutation that allows most modern Earth humans to drink milk probably goes all the way back to livestock domestication. Around 10,000 years ago, or more. We know Orions are an off-shoot of humanity, which it would seem, goes back to before the lactose adaptation.
I think there was something about the people that became Orions dying off due to starvation and competition. Orions need a high protein diet, but not like Neanderthals that were almost obligate carnivores. I’d have to say this would have been in the early part to middle of the last ice age.
We know that Neanderthals died off during that time, but they were really robust. Orions are not. Denisovans, we don’t know so much about. Especially since they practically vanished from the fossil record. We know that there was infrequent interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovan, and Modern Humans. It’s been suggested that Nepalese and Tibetans, who are adapted to high altitude living and higher solar radiation tolerance, may have Denisovan genes.
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Both Luna and Sky
Orions are the missing Denisovans!
So that’s where we left them.
Damn, I knew I put them down around here somewhere!
Don’t put them down, they don’t deserve to be insulted!
“Orions are the missing Denisovans!”
I said something like this before the comments were lost in the crash last year. Good to see somebody remembered.
Thanks Andy.
Speaking of which I found this vid just today and thought it was of interest; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWaREXA8_fE
Luna the oracle will be getting her own statue soon.
Or a cave filled with mist…
Found ’em!
This would explain the Orion’s limited creativity. Modern human’s creativity and communication skills are centered in the portions of the brain most influenced by Neanderthal DNA from when early humans migrated into Neanderthal territory and interbred with them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW27kyh7PVM
OH CRAP! Rusty (the one in the middle right?) noticed that Luna’s speech pattern changed.
My bad that is na-Nilina
This is the first time she’s experienced Luna in Oracle-Mode, and going by the Transcript, she noticed the initial Trance-state booting up
Poor Rusty, trapped behind a wall of text.
“The mutation that allows most modern Earth humans to drink milk probably goes all the way back to livestock domestication.”
Technically, this should refer to ‘adult’ humans. All mammal babies can drink ‘mother’s milk’ but would lose that ability after weaning. It’s this mutation that allows most modern humans to drink milk into adulthood.
A recent [SciShow]-video on [YouTube] has more detail on this subject:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytktpNIN3OM&fbclid=IwAR2rC2rS5B2XN8B97NVY4hMPeMXwugr0T07Sxj_c2VzIsRwt81RVK5VcbSk]
If you truncate everything from the 1st “&” onward, the “URL” might be a bit more manageable…?
Nice theory, especially sine they are mostly missing from the fossil records. It would tend to explain what happened to all of them.
Hmm… I kind of want to back check with the end of first space arc, with what Lady Banshee claimed their people rescued the Orion ancestors from. Starvation, freezing to death… something like that.
That’s a clue to their origins too.
I stumbled on this today and immediately left to look this page up:
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-dna-puts-face-mysterious-denisovans-extinct-cousins-neanderthals
There was a recent news program(?)/show of a group of people that are lactose intolerant (have trouble with milk products), but make and use cheeses and butters especially during their winter time survival phase. Some scientists were wanting to do a larger study of them on how they both can and can’t tolerate the lactose. If I remember correctly, not saying that I do, they live somewhere in Siberia. The full details slip my mind at this time. It would be interesting to do a check on their ancestral DNA.
Maybe whatever process the milk goes through to become cheese and butter changes it structurally on a chemical level (or something)
Yes most hard cheeses lack lactose, the molds that form the cheese consume the lactose as part of the process that forms the cheese.