The Library (3/17/06)

[janet_fraiser]

Janet's yawning as she opens up the library today. Maybe she can just sit in one place and check in books for a few hours.

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Re: Fourth Period

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Nope. No way. Not at all. It was just a generalized thing." Blair waved his hands a little. "It's different for girls! When you read a book and it has a short girl in it, they call her wiry or quick. The strong guys are almost always portrayed as being tall."

"I honestly haven't studied genetics that much, but what about if you add genetic material from another species? Would that make a difference?"

Re: Fourth Period

[janet_fraiser]

"See, you're falling into the same set of heuristics as everyone else now," Janet pointed out. "Who says just because you're short that you aren't strong? Besides, you want to be turned into a different species, and height and gender don't have a correlation with perceived strength in that case."

Janet winced. "Yes, it would make a very big difference. You can't just randomly switch genes on and off, or add genes in. Do you know what kind of side effects you're going to have?"

Re: Fourth Period

[swerval_zero]

"Sterility, for one," Zero piped up from where she was going over her copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Re: Fourth Period

[janet_fraiser]

"Exactly!" exclaimed Janet. "Thank you, Zero. Not to mention more subtle effects. What if your body starts processing food differently? Suppose you turned yourself into, say, a giraffe, and then after you became a human again, something went wrong and you could only eat leaves?"

Re: Fourth Period

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Leaves wouldn't be so bad." Blair nodded. "Although I see your point. It would suck to retain an aspect of the animal after I was finished with the experiment."

Re: Fourth Period

[janet_fraiser]

"And you can never predict the side-effects of altering the genetic code," said Janet. "Besides, leaves wouldn't be so bad if you could eat other things, but they would be bad if you couldn't have, say, chocolate as well."

Re: Fourth Period

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair nodded. "Or ice cream."

"So maybe magic is the best option here. No nasty side effects and hopefully I can still eat sweets afterwards."

Re: Fourth Period

[janet_fraiser]

"Good luck with that," said Janet. "With any luck, you'll find something."


OOC: Sorry, been offline most of the weekend. I would advise checking with Nightcrawler and the admins as to finding what you want, and current rules state you can't check a SC book out of the library, though certainly Nightcrawler's mun may choose to change that if he (er, or she?) wishes.