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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-up21·3 days agoWhy 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-up22·3 days agoImagine your dead twin using your penis to impregnate your wife with his DNA.
minus-squareAlkali@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-23 days ago“You may have defeated me in the womb brother, but I impregnated your wife. I win.”
minus-squareNaz@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoThe 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-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoI 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-squaresaimen@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoYeah, I get it. Chimerism is scary, but not DNA
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIt’s like if that carnie episode of X-Files had been on Cinemax at 3am
minus-squareWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·3 days agoImagine 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!
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.
Yeah, I get it. Chimerism is scary, but not DNA
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