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[–] saimen@feddit.org 20 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Why does this make DNA scary? I think it's awesome that our understanding of DNA makes us able to unravel things like this.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 20 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Imagine your dead twin using your penis to impregnate your wife with his DNA.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

It's like if that carnie episode of X-Files had been on Cinemax at 3am

[–] saimen@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, I get it. Chimerism is scary, but not DNA

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 4 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago

Imagine you are le innocent wife, but your son does not have your father's DNA