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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] Damn. Pegasus. I hadn't thought of that. Nice, Lee. I too had issues with the actions and reason behind this episode. I believe that Baltar stated that Sharon's baby was absent the antigens we generally use to test the [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type]bloodtype[/URL] of a person. We know that a transfusion of blood of the wrong type will likely result in profound illness, but the mechanism which causes this is not well understood. If the human-cylon hybrid blood is completely without the structures which would trigger an immune response, then it could potentially be a universal donor. [i]Provided that it actually acted like blood and did the sorts of things that blood is supposed to do[/i]. I suspect there are a number of substances which do not contain A or B antigens or have a Rhesus factor that might even destroy cancerous tissue but would still kill you if you injected it into your vein. Battery acid, for example. But we know that the human-cylon blood is difficult to dinstinguish from human blood (though if it is a matter of 6 or 8 ring carbon, I can't imagine why it would be). Anyway, granted the conceit that it performs the same function as human blood, but with the added benefit of eating cancer and leaving no trace (which violates some thermodynamics thing, I'm certain), then perhaps it might work. But there's some pretty sketchy science going on there. Maybe I'm just excited for more Mary McDonnell goodness. I actually had a bigger problem with the B story. While the idea of a pacifist movement is certainly topical, I can't imagine that many people who had narrowly escaped the clutches of the enemy only to witness the people they loved along with the surfaces of their respective planets vaporized in firey, atomic holocaust would ever be able to really get behind a peacenik movement. Certainly not one who were calling it a foolish and uneccessary war. Which isn't even getting into the using violence to stop violence thing. And also now Gina is somehow not recognized by anyone as being a Cylon? Because didn't they put out postings through the fleet to be on the lookout for these individuals believed to be Cylon agents, like on the TV or whatever. And there was posters of Leoban and Six. It just doesn't seem plausible at this point. Maybe after they've been hitting the cylons for a couple months and losses are mounting with no end in sight. But not now. And Baltar does seem a little too eager to reject the human cause and embrace his cylon masters (although, I'm not sure how well I'd fare if they came in the appealing form of Tricia Helfer). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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