Thank you, corrected.
No, the women still have finite eggs.
moot
I can certainly see it as an 'assigned to Siberia' position. Going to visit a potentially hostile band of super-strong natives who have no reason to like me? I'd be damn nervous.
"And no jokes about wanting to go back for your stomach, please. I'd hate for it to be literal..."
I bet most of them are just wondering "Who's this now? Another outsider?"
And I'm sure mon Capitano is healthy. If not, OL should have corrected that in short order.
Definitely easier to be convincing in your own tongue. Even if they don't, OL can manage translation.
That would have been amusing, to see him slowly pick up the tongue.
One of the originals who didn't head out, I see.
Huh. When your body's that tough, the hard parts are tools in themselves. Fingernails like razors; knees, elbows, palm-heels and even foreheads would be like steel hammers... Imagine the mess they could make of someone, even without the old 'rip&tear'...
Ah, the whole application of the formula is a ritual? That's got to be concerning to him...
Good to see him feeling better, at least. Seeing the children he helped back then (those who survived) grown and healthy must feel heartening.
Polite is definitely the way to go here...
Well, not a private conversation. I doubt much happens in private anyway, besides things they don't want the children seeing.
Ah, OL's not translating? I suppose it makes it easier when he has to step away...
Oh, god. I shudder at the stories Hugo might hear about himself...
How many actually learned from it, though?
Ah, I knew he wouldn't have been twiddling his thumbs or sitting in the lab all the time.
Nothing like a practical demonstration.
It just lacks a certain something without the classic Circus Strongman costume.
Ha! The joy of super-powered littles.
And mon Capitano has gone very quiet...
Yeah, I suspect disagreements get settled a little more physically than most people would. No hard feelings when you've had your head smacked around fair and square and done the same to the other guy.
Ah, yes, our erstwhile local reporter.
Heh, I doubt she's used to getting the Lois Lane treatment. At least she hasn't gotten kidnapped yet... I hope.
Time to get the public weighing in on matters. I foresee some differing opinions...
Our bodies can break our bodies.
Anti-vaxxers, certain religious groups, Luddites, egotists of various flavours, people pushing political agendas of one sort or another. A minority of people certainly, but such groups exist. Then you get at least a generation or two of integration problems - hard to properly control or discipline a child that can bend steel and finds a steel bar to the head to be barely worth commenting on. It's not like you can choose the child's personality either, and every child throws a tantrum or ten. Bit more problematic when that tantrum might break their parents ribs or kill another toddler.
Thank you, corrected.
Conservatively, the number of eggs physically present in the body is still on the order of 10,000 times as many eggs as a mundane Human woman will have an opportunity to use in her reproductive lifetime; so, unless the Danner Formula's longevity delays all aspects of aging except menopause, for some reason, this isn't much of a counterpoint.
Like a cow's opinion?
Huh. Hadn't realised that there were so many. I guess they don't have to worry on that score, either.
Thank you, corrected.
Should that be 'warily'? I don't see why she is likely to be tired...
Agreed: in the context of her other reactions, warily (cautious) seems way more likely than wearily (tired).
Thank you, corrected.
Turns out? It isn't. Came up a little way up the page. Most women go through menopause with thousands left.
How would Mr Napier get enhanced by the Danner formula? Unless he's on good terms with a biomantically-inclined Lantern, he'd need to be a foetus to get any benefit.
Also, an opening demand like this is a good way to let the other side know what the likely consequences would be if they do end up going to war, and the tribes win. Because if you lose a war, the bottom pretty much drops out of your negotiating position, and the other side gets to do pretty much whatever it wants.
Don't eggs go bad before they run out? I don't know if that is a separate issue from menopause, or what triggers menopause...
Yup. It does matter. It's 'Moo.'
If a Lantern can do it that means there are technological ways to do it.
All joker needs is a good biomancer, and those might not be that hard to find.
Honestly, I made my last post with Google and Napkin Math, so, I'm not a gynecologist, and don't know the exact combination of biological mechanisms that contributes to the particular kind of decay that ultimately results in infertility, but as someone with an opinion on the internet, I think if the Formula had such miraculous preservative and regenerative effects on every part of the body except the ova and uterus, with the overall effect of restricting the reproductive rate of the new subspecies,
No, he'd wreck it.
Alternately, and this might sound crazy, the healing factor of the Danner formula repairs telomeres, so... clinical immortality?
I'm legitimately curious as to how so?
