Talk:Replicant

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I have moved the Deckard is a Replicant section the the Blade Runner article vaceituno 02:51, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I don't get the reference Blake-type in: ...is something of a Blake-type character... 2005-03-22 User:Hlangeveld

I think that needs to be explained better AND for whoever wrote it to link it to a disambiguous page. I am removing that line. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 138.25.13.246 (talk • contribs) .

I have disambiged the line and reinserted it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 06:12, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Are Replicants 'physically' human?

meaning, are they biologically based on manipulated human DNA and NOT manufactured synthetic copies of human biology? The film doesn't explain this in detail, and the Wiki page for this reflects that to large extent, only referencing "inspirations" for the term Replicant itself.

I guess a good analogy to Replicant manufacturing would be the very cheesy sendup of this year's "The Island", where mad scientists took donor DNA and manufactured them into fully grown adults, but minus the physical or mental flaws exhibited in the original donors. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.139.8.110 (talk • contribs) .

Yes they are physically human as standard physical tests cannot easily detect them. However, to what extent they are copied from other humans, or re-engineered from scratch is up in the air. It may be premature to believe they are cloned from human; however even if that were the case it would likely just be the aethetics (exterior) that was copied. - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 06:12, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I actually felt that Replicants are entirely artificial: no "donor" human DNA was originally used. Currently, scientists can actually create certain viruses like polio, entirely from scratch (simply nucleotides created in the lab), but they're a while from using it on anything advanced as a bacteria. Still, I think the Replicants were "designed" in a lab, a "bio chemical machine", and not based on human stuff.

Hmmm, that's how it is with the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica. They have DNA, but it wasn't copied from pre-existing people. Noneofyourbusiness 02:06, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Systems Malfunction

I'm removing the odd "Systems Malfunction" quote in the "Replicants in popular culture" because it seems to be from a home brew RPG thats run on a college campus and not from any form of Pop culture what so ever. In addition it seems to be of excessive length and has nothing to do with the subject except the world "replicant". If it pops up again, please be kind enough to remove it. PsyckoSama 19:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)