Lt Noemi Lim - The breakfast club friend group
Noemi Lim
(( Beach, Bokitu City, Bolarus IX ))
Lim: It's the study of how different species become distinct from a parent or related species. The Galapagos finches of Earth, the daggerfins of Sidus II and the veiled toads of Mota are all examples.
Kettick: Ah. My apologies, I am afraid we are quite far from my field of expertise.
Stapledon: ::Smirking:: The cats I think had a slight advantage. It turned out that the trees on New Cyprus had a bark that contained certain chemical compounds that worked similar to mild catnip. The good part was that cats on the planet were very docile. The bad part was that some people didn't really like so many of them wandering around all the time.
Lim: As long as they aren’t ray cats I think they’d be fine.
Kettick: Somehow, the idea that cats could evolve to emit radiation, as a means of defense or a hunting strategy, sounds entirely possible in this universe of ours. I am not quite sure if this is suppose to fill me with awe or existential exhaustion.
Lim: It’s not actually emitting radiation. Ray cats were a suggested genetic modification to cats that would have them glow in the presence of radiation.
Kettick: "Yes" is a valid answer.
Stapledon: What about radioresistance?
Lim: I imagine it’s possible to gain such a trait, though the process to get there would be rather painful and potentially deadly given radiation’s effects on most genetic material.
The path of evolution was littered with enough never-went-anywhere mutations and genetic dead ends to prove that point.
Kettick: Response
Stapledon: Oh, that's interesting. Would it affect their other internal organs?
Lim: ::She shrugged:: It would depend on how the mutation affected them.
Kettick: Response
Stapledon: Did that make for some interesting microbiomes?
Lim: Probably depends on what you’d consider interesting. Is that area of study common in your homeworld?
Mue had slowly begun to slide off her lap in his sleep and she carefully picked him up to settle him back in her lap.
Kettick: Response
Stapledon: Well... ::She thought for a moment:: There were some studies on telepathy on my world.. I think the bigger research fields ended up being sociological. It wasn't just the uh.. Religions... ::She decided it'd be best to gloss over the AILigion project for now :: Klingons, Betazoids, and Humans were all very common species on New Cyprus. It made for very cool emergent social dynamics... I had a few Klingon friends.
Lim: ::Musing:: We moved around so much that I didn’t have many long term friends outside of my siblings and cousins. I did have a few go to playmates when my parents were actually on campus but we were more friends of circumstance rather than friends friends if you know what I mean.
Kettick/Stapledon: Response
tag/tbc
Noemi Lim
Chief Medical Officer
USS Eagle
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