Latest Comic Discussion 2: This time, it's personal.

[Kimra]

What's that Trope where the author uses a child to deliver his personal opinion, to give it the guise of self-evident fact?

From the mouths of babes?

Comes the spew of ages.

[crazylyle]

Regarding the SMBC for May 5th, this is too simplistic. While it
is true that we inherit our genes from our parents, we don't get
them randomly. We specifically get chromosomes from our parents,
which are large groups of genes, all in a bundle.

Consider a son, for example, rather than a daughter. The father
has both an X and a Y chromosome. The mother has two X
chromosomes. The son must inherit the father's Y chromosome.
Which means that each son's Y chromosome is identical to his
father's Y chromosome, which, by induction, must be identical to
his grandfather's Y chromosome, and so on. The entire set of all
males in a person's genetic offspring have identical Y
chromosomes.

For a daughter, it's a bit more complex, but the daughter must
inherit her father's X chromosome, which he got from his mother.
The other X chromosome comes from her mother. In the next
generation, however, a (grand)-daughter could get the X
chromosome from the mother, and an unrelated X chromosome from
the daughter's husband, and the father would have no contribution
to the two X chromosomes, by just the 2nd generation. It is
possible for the same thing to happen with all the other
chromosomes, so the father's contribution could be zero by the
second generation, for a daughter.

And in any case, it's all probabilistic, so you may have no
genetic connection to your daughters or you may have a lot. For
sons, the father has a significant connection, at least on the Y
chromosome.

And we don't even want to get started on the maternal mitochondria ...

[GUTCHUCKER]

"There are maternal mitochondria."
The end. I don't think this one bears much explaining here.

[Oldrac the Chitinous]

CHROMOSOMEZ

Hey look, it's the point I made within a couple hours of the comic being posted.
(Not that I blame you for not reading through the last however many pages since the time I posted it. I am just sayin'.)


UNRELATED: Since we've been talking about changing the Latest Comic Discussion thread anyway, I've got a proposal.

We could set it up in a subforum that people can access without registering, like New Outlandia is. We could either change the permissions on this one or make a new one. We don't seem to have too much of a problem with unregistered spambots, and this way, we could make things easier for people that just want to comment on the strip, which Zach ought to like, and it ought to cut down people showing up unbidden and telling us all about why our moral and religious beliefs are stupid.

[Apocalyptus]

people showing up unbidden and telling us all about why our moral and religious beliefs are stupid.

Not looking at anyone, especially not with the initials RC.

[Roman Cilicia]

This comic sucked. Zach is becoming way too preachy and way not funny enough.

[Roman Cilicia]

people showing up unbidden and telling us all about why our moral and religious beliefs are stupid.

Not looking at anyone, especially not with the initials RC.

Passive Aggressiveness is for douches.

If you have a problem with me, come out and say it to my face bub!

[zomgmouse]

people showing up unbidden and telling us all about why our moral and religious beliefs are stupid.

Not looking at anyone, especially not with the initials RC.

Passive Aggressiveness is for douches.

If you have a problem with me, come out and say it to my face bub!

Oooh, I want a "face bub"!

[Sahan]

I just want an ice-cream.

[Kimra]

I just want an ice-cream.

In this weather? I want a bowl of hot porridge.

[ChaoticBrain]

The moon is a planet.

[Lethal Interjection]

The moon is a planet.

That's no moon.


That's a space station.

[Felstaff]

And is thus not a portalable surface, unless they've painted it with ground-up moonrocks.

[GUTCHUCKER]

That's some pro double post up there

[Lethal Interjection]

That's some pro double post up there

Doesn't learn, does he?