Phil Pugliese wrote:
> You are speaking as the equiv of a caveman to modern-day man.

No, humans now know a lot more than cavemen did about reproductive biology.

You're arguing the biological equivalent of 'planets and stars are no longer
roughly spherical in the TU.'

I wrote:
> The typical Traveller TL hasn't got to the stage where you can redefine
> natural constants like pi.

That appears to be Ancient-level capability, at best.

Phil wrote:
> You can't say w/ any certainty at all what will or will not be possible so
> far in the future & w/ such greatly advanced tech.

Sure we can - the published material describes what the technology is and
what its capabilities are.
We can explore how the technology described in the canon material could
work.
If that's not a valid discussion topic for this list, well...

and:
> Cloning is what Norris has done, no?

Apparently.
It may be socially acceptable in the Imperium, but how does it fit into the
Aslan honor concept (fteir)?

and:
> Yeah well the groundbreaking work of the famous Dr Whats-iz-name brought
> all that under control a
> long, long time before the 3I even existed. re: Ecyclopedia Imperica,
> umpteenth edition, Univ. of
> Sylea...

(Human) evolution ceased everywhere? Interesting.
The instability of genomes is entropy pushing on biology.

Evolution is life's way of trying to cheat thermodynamics.

Remember:
Zeroth: You must play the game.
First: You can't win.
Second: You can't break even.
Third: You can't quit the game.

Rob O'Connor