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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/failed-paternity-test-vanished-twin https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5845036/
minus-squaresaimen@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·16 天前Why does this make DNA scary? I think it’s awesome that our understanding of DNA makes us able to unravel things like this.
minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·16 天前Imagine your dead twin using your penis to impregnate your wife with his DNA.
minus-squareAlkali@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-215 天前“You may have defeated me in the womb brother, but I impregnated your wife. I win.”
minus-squareNaz@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·15 天前The child is then born, gets to around 18 years old and challenges the father to a boxing match: “Brother, it is me, beyond the grave! I have come to reclaim my rightful place in the world, and seek my vengeance!”
minus-squaresaimen@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 天前Yeah, I get it. Chimerism is scary, but not DNA
minus-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·16 天前I would say that he’s not really dead, his consciousness has taken shelter in some dark cranny of his mind, and slips out to cause trouble now and then.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 天前It’s like if that carnie episode of X-Files had been on Cinemax at 3am
minus-squareWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·16 天前Imagine you are le innocent wife, but your son does not have your father’s DNA
Why does this make DNA scary? I think it’s awesome that our understanding of DNA makes us able to unravel things like this.
Imagine your dead twin using your penis to impregnate your wife with his DNA.
“You may have defeated me in the womb brother, but I impregnated your wife. I win.”
The child is then born, gets to around 18 years old and challenges the father to a boxing match:
“Brother, it is me, beyond the grave! I have come to reclaim my rightful place in the world, and seek my vengeance!”
Go Team Venture!
Yeah, I get it. Chimerism is scary, but not DNA
I would say that he’s not really dead, his consciousness has taken shelter in some dark cranny of his mind, and slips out to cause trouble now and then.
It’s like if that carnie episode of X-Files had been on Cinemax at 3am
Imagine you are le innocent wife, but your son does not have your father’s DNA