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Re: what Lysogenic means
Posted By: Sardaukar [Pants 138] <jmbt_chopsocky@yahoo.com>Date: 3/8/05 2:50 p.m.

In Response To: what Lysogenic means (scarab)

: I had to look up lysogenic to understand what it means. :-)

: LYSOGENIC LIFE CYCLE:The life cycle of temperate bacteriophages in which the
: virus can either replicate via the lytic life cycle or become a latent
: prophage within the infected host bacterium and not replicate.

: OK... the lytic lifecycle means that the bacteriophages reproduce inside the
: infected cell then rupture the cell in order to escape and infect other
: cells.

: So I think that you are saying that the Forerunners may have used
: bacteriophages to insert DNA into single celled organisms with the intent
: to, somehow, convert them into something capable of firing the Halos.

: I also get the impression that you are suggesting that this conversion
: process happened over several generations and was driven by each
: generation reproducing to create offspring that were closer to the ideal
: of a creature capable of firing the rings.

: Am I correct so far or have I missed the point? Where have I gone wrong?

A little. Viri are by no means limited to unicelluar organisms. These viri infected multicellular, eukaryotic early humans (Homo Erectus species, to be exact) as we knew them - in particular, they worked their way into our neural cells. This virus affected the personality (Again, read footnotes.) of the earliest humans, those few who would be the forefathers of billions upon billions of us- entire cultures and nations.

The virus did not direct our growth biologically in any way, it merely gave us the intuition to progress technologically by inserting innovations here and there up to the point where it was no longer necessary (i.e., circa Shaw-Fujikawa Drive invention... and by circa I mean within centuries of).

Each generation of humans would be posssessed of this abstract knowledge, spaced so that it did not happen extremely quickly. Each innovation built off the other, and not all made themselves apparent immediately- anything biological is prone to error. But they were all stimuli to activate the next... tier, if you will, of innovation.

Now, by all means, humanity was still entirely capable of innovation on it's own- I don't think the Forerunner ever intended for us to apply nuclear technology against ourselves, or for the Playstation 2 to be developed (if any PS2 fanboys read this... just kidding around.. heheh... eh... *scans for exits*).

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The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouSardaukar [Pants 138] 3/7/05 3:07 p.m.
     Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouJillybean 3/7/05 3:22 p.m.
           SearchNazi.Chester the Destroyer 3/7/05 3:31 p.m.
           Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouSardaukar [Pants 138] 3/7/05 3:43 p.m.
     Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouSeries III (MetalSilver) 3/7/05 3:37 p.m.
           Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouSardaukar [Pants 138] 3/7/05 3:47 p.m.
                 Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouPaladin-117 3/7/05 3:50 p.m.
                 Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouSeries III (MetalSilver) 3/7/05 3:55 p.m.
                       Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouGordon Freeman 3/7/05 4:00 p.m.
                             Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouSeries III (MetalSilver) 3/7/05 4:26 p.m.
           Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouGordon Freeman 3/7/05 3:48 p.m.
     Very good thoughts...58 3/7/05 4:12 p.m.
           Re: Very good thoughts...Sardaukar [Pants 138] 3/7/05 4:30 p.m.
                 Re: Very good thoughts...58 3/7/05 5:08 p.m.
                       Re: Very good thoughts...Sardaukar [Pants 138] 3/7/05 5:46 p.m.
                             Re: Very good thoughts...58 3/7/05 5:57 p.m.
     So, Basically, We Stole The Forerunners' MojoSteve 3/7/05 4:36 p.m.
     Re: The Flood, Lysogenics, And YouPvt. Jenkins 3/7/05 6:44 p.m.
           Yes. *NM*Sardaukar [Pants 138] 3/7/05 6:54 p.m.
                 Re: Yes.Pvt. Jenkins 3/7/05 7:14 p.m.
     re-evolve, bad choicescarab 3/8/05 8:00 a.m.
           But evolution's not even a good theory in RL... *NM*58 3/8/05 9:18 a.m.
           Re: re-evolve, bad choiceSardaukar [Pants 138] 3/8/05 2:40 p.m.
     what Lysogenic meansscarab 3/8/05 8:13 a.m.
           Re: what Lysogenic meansSardaukar [Pants 138] 3/8/05 2:50 p.m.
                 Re: what Lysogenic means ADDENDUMSardaukar [Pants 138] 3/8/05 2:58 p.m.



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