Comments on: BSG Digestif http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/ this is where something witty goes Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:31:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Legion http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/comment-page-1/#comment-3286 Legion Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:16:06 +0000 http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/#comment-3286 @Kyle: That is awesome, apparently I should check my science facts. But that's what you get when you let just anyone have a domain name. So it's very possible that many of the survivors did live. Cool @Liam: I can respect that opinion, totally. For me I liked seeing the characters through this end run, even though it did just kind of slowly wind down, rather than go out with more of spectacular flourish. @Kyle: That is awesome, apparently I should check my science facts. But that's what you get when you let just anyone have a domain name. So it's very possible that many of the survivors did live. Cool

@Liam: I can respect that opinion, totally. For me I liked seeing the characters through this end run, even though it did just kind of slowly wind down, rather than go out with more of spectacular flourish.

]]> By: liam http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/comment-page-1/#comment-3274 liam Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:38:10 +0000 http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/#comment-3274 Didn't say he wasn't right on, Martinator. Kyle is very capable. I glanced at it and it didn't make sense. Actually, it did make sense, but I was only half paying attention and thought a brief answer would be funnier. That said, I'm on the opposite side, James. The more I think about it, the more the BSG finale, and the last half-season kinda pooped in my mouth a little. Throwing out a line like "Everyone decided a clean slate was better" or whatever, when you couldn't get the fleet captains to agree on anything, let alone everyone in the entire fleet - that was too much of a stretch for me. And flashing forward 150 000 years was too much. I couldn't figure out what the message was they were trying to send us from the first episode? They need to show us examples? Nah, I didn't like it. Didn't say he wasn't right on, Martinator. Kyle is very capable. I glanced at it and it didn't make sense. Actually, it did make sense, but I was only half paying attention and thought a brief answer would be funnier.

That said, I'm on the opposite side, James. The more I think about it, the more the BSG finale, and the last half-season kinda pooped in my mouth a little.

Throwing out a line like "Everyone decided a clean slate was better" or whatever, when you couldn't get the fleet captains to agree on anything, let alone everyone in the entire fleet - that was too much of a stretch for me. And flashing forward 150 000 years was too much. I couldn't figure out what the message was they were trying to send us from the first episode? They need to show us examples? Nah, I didn't like it.

]]> By: Martinator http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/comment-page-1/#comment-3228 Martinator Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:57:29 +0000 http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/#comment-3228 Kyle is dead on. @Liam - Pick up a science magazine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve Kyle is dead on.

@Liam - Pick up a science magazine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

]]> By: liam http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/comment-page-1/#comment-3227 liam Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:30:06 +0000 http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/#comment-3227 No. No.

]]> By: Kyle http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/comment-page-1/#comment-3226 Kyle Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:38:01 +0000 http://feelingsofwhite.com/2009/03/bsg-digestif/#comment-3226 I don't watch the show (haha suckers!) but I did want to give an insight into mitochondrial eve. Since the 46 chromosomes in a new embryo are a mix of 23 from mom and 23 from dad AND we get rearranged pieces in the next generation that might be a partial mom and partial dad chromosome 1 (or whatever) we can't claim to have all descended from one of any type. Because every man's Y is from his dad, and only his dad, if a dad only has daughters his Y-lineage stops. Go back far enough in time, say 60,000 years... There were many "men" around, but at some point in time every one has had only daughters so we can say that only one of them is Y-chromosome Adam. Because mitochondria have DNA, and mitochondria only get passed from mother to sons and daughters (they be in the egg, dontchaknow) it is a little harder to "wipe out" a linage. But it still can happen as if she has only sons: they will carry Mom's mitochondria, but not pass them on. So... there could be hundreds of females present 140,000 years ago that all have ancestors surviving, but all but one of them has had only sons in the distant past. Which means we all have a common great^5000 grandmother. Make sense? I don't watch the show (haha suckers!) but I did want to give an insight into mitochondrial eve. Since the 46 chromosomes in a new embryo are a mix of 23 from mom and 23 from dad AND we get rearranged pieces in the next generation that might be a partial mom and partial dad chromosome 1 (or whatever) we can't claim to have all descended from one of any type.

Because every man's Y is from his dad, and only his dad, if a dad only has daughters his Y-lineage stops. Go back far enough in time, say 60,000 years... There were many "men" around, but at some point in time every one has had only daughters so we can say that only one of them is Y-chromosome Adam.

Because mitochondria have DNA, and mitochondria only get passed from mother to sons and daughters (they be in the egg, dontchaknow) it is a little harder to "wipe out" a linage. But it still can happen as if she has only sons: they will carry Mom's mitochondria, but not pass them on. So... there could be hundreds of females present 140,000 years ago that all have ancestors surviving, but all but one of them has had only sons in the distant past. Which means we all have a common great^5000 grandmother.

Make sense?

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