In EVE clones of course, these 'clones' are made out of animal parts and corpses. So, whether or not your clone had a hymen would be dependent on whether the corpse they used had one or not.
They're made out of biomass, not corpses. Big difference. Biomass is a generic organic substance that can be grown into whatever is needed. It's closer to replicators in Star Trek, but obviously not quite so instantaneous. The biomass is used to grow the clone to precise specifications in a lab with all the parts desired. Whether this includes a hymen would be up to those specifications.
Possibly, but why does this biomass need to be made from ground up corpses and animals? Even plant material. such as easy to grow algae, would do. Vegetarians are still able to digest plant based organic compounds, and transform them into human/ animal tissue. You don't need smelly, messy animal based materials as a nutrient source.
Also, a clone is one of your own cells which has been cultivated into a genetically identical copy of you. It would be like your son or daughter, that is physically identical to you. Those cells would replicate into a zygote, etc. until it became a fetus. That fetus would develop from
any nutrient material. Animal corpses would be too complex to digest, and feeding human corpses to a clone fetus would mean that every capsuleer is a cannibal. Even assuming accelerated growth, there is simply no need to use animal proteins or human flesh as a nutrient.
It's not just the 'yuck' factor either. Animals have to be fed, housed, shipped, slaughtered and processed, then frozen. Human corpses? Even more problematic. On the other hand, Algae is omnipresent, even in microscopic spore form. Edible blue-green algae can be easily and cheaply cultivated, and used to make food, plastics, fuel, and so on. It's much easier to handle, cultivate, deliver, harvest, transport, etc. algae, than animal based proteins, yet it contains ALL of the same organic materials (carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, minerals, vitamins, etc.)
Wood is rare in space. There are no fields of grass in space stations. What would the animals eat? True, you could raise them on a planet, slaughter them all, and haul them up to a space station, but that's an awful lot of weight to send into orbit just to end up as a meal.
Seeds on the other hand, especially microscopic spores, weigh a lot less but provide the same nutrients as meat. Eating human corpses, which is a privilege available only to those that can afford higher grade clones, has the biological effect of causing sickness and insanity. An example of this would be 'Mad cow' disease in bovines, and 'kukuri' or 'laughing sickness' in humans.
How is it that the Blood Raiders can be considered as heretics for eating human flesh, when in fact each and every capsuleer has done so from their very first day of artificial conception? Is this the reason why so many capsuleers are insane? Is this why the Amarrian religion hates clones so much?
The whole thing is just full of holes. I grit my teeth when I hear that clones are made up of 'biomass' animal parts (low grade), or human corpses (high grade). It makes me think of the Tom and Jerry cartoons where Tom would be sliced in half with a knife, and he was just all full of red stuff inside.
It makes as much sense to me as Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff and not starting to fall until he looks down and realizes where he is.
I didn't really have as much problem with the story of Chancellor Karsoth as I do with the explanation of how cloning works in EVE. Cloning, as it is explained in EVE, is unscientific, illogical, impractical, and economically unsound.
I am especially concerned with how it is spreading scientific illiteracy to anyone who is already unfamiliar with the scientific process of cloning. You just don't jam a can full of Spam into a human shaped mold, add some handwavium, flip a switch and watch a clone pop out. There might be a good explanation for how our spaceships act more like submarines, but there is zero excuse for this ludicrous explanation for how the cloning procedure in EVE works.
It's bad enough that there are people trying to say that the planet was intelligently designed, that evolution is a hoax, and that the world is only 10,000 years old. Why make up a completely different explanation for what a clone is other than the way it
really works in the
real world, as we have evidence for today?
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