<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Very interesting.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>For Chris's parents to be himself and Novia is genetically drastically unlikely. Even if you make Novia Chris's daughter (!), the odds are worse than 1 in 70 trillion that the baby would get the right set of chromosomes. I'd prefer for Chris to be a clone of himself, which would be amusing. (It's been suggested that he's a clone, since he calls himself a "half-human monster" and never mentions his mother.) That would leave the problem of when he was engineered
to be tall.</span></div><div><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>A difficulty with all of these, maybe not insurmountable--can you get mobbed up if you don't have a family?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Jerry Friedman</span></div> </div></body></html>