People tend to shit on clones, but who else can come up with a large enough army to defend the Republic?
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At 1/2^42 odds, you're unlikely to have a large enough army to man a V Wing, much less defend the Republic
Not even the Republic, it would appear.
The Confederacy of Independent Systems has far more BattleDroids than your Republic has Clones.
Defeat of the Republic is inevitable.
Yes but battle droids can't improvise!
You didn't factor recombination. Nobody ever receives any of their parents' exact chromosomes, except the sex chromosomes from dad - each pair shuffles up the equivalent DNA between the 2 chromosomes, resulting in 2 chromosomes that are each a mix of both of that parent's chromosomes of that pair, one of which is passed on to the child for each pair for each parent.
It's unlikely to have ever happened.
2^42 is 25 times the total number of people ever born in all of history.
Also, twins aren't identical copies either. Different fingerprint etc.
Fingerprints aren't genetically coded, and clones wouldn't have the same fingerprints, either.
I typically associate "clone" with "an exact copy", with the same exact molecular layout and even thoughts. So a literal exact copy. Clones on a DNA basis, so something possible for years, would indeed be different in some details.
The definition of "clone" you believe in is science fiction nonsense. Why believe in nonsense when the scientific definition of clone is different?
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Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
google chromosome crossing over
Yea the number is way higher than that
Holy genetic diversity
You mean googol?
Untrue, chromosomes also get shuffled during crossover
Great now I have to change accents in the 3rd panel.