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Sep. 16th, 2007 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leia131 So I'm watching this movie right now, I think it's called Flight of the Phoenix... It really doesn't matter. I started watching it for three reasons.
1. Dennis Quaid. He's so rugged and tough. And dirty. And sweaty. Rawr.
2. Hugh Laurie. With his full on British accent. YAY! Hey hey hey! He also speaks Mongolian!
3. Eowyn. Yeah, I'm sure the actress has a name, but I don't care. She's Eowyn. And she's awesome.
Now, I didn't see the beginning, so I have no idea how a bunch of people from different countries (given the accents and looks, we have American, Mexican, English, and Irish) ended up on a plane together, and I don't know why that plane crashed in the Mongolian desert. But we ended up with like, 20 guys and Eowyn trying to build a plane.
My first thought was gee, it's a good thing the plane was full of big burly men, capable of working all day in the hot sun, and not, you know, old people and little kids. (We'll forgive there being a plane designer, a pilot, and a welder on board, cause well, no plane crashes without SOME useful people on it.)
My second thought was about the prospective genetic diversity if they had to stay in the desert and start a village. I mean, they do have a woman, so it is possible. If she produced a kid from each man, you'd have a bunch of half siblings... I don't know how messed up their kids would be, but they really wouldn't have any choice... I think though, since there are so many different men, and from such different racial backgrounds, it would be ok. Especially since boys don't inherit their mothers' mitochondria... Oh, and they'd also be preserving white, black, Mexican, and English diversity. (The Mongolian guys shot the Irish guy, so no Irish DNA. Boo.)
Another geeky genetics thought: If Eowyn only slept with some of the guys, and then they waited... 13 years or so for her daughter(s) to hit puberty, then the other guys could knock up the daughters, and well, they'd all still be related to Eowyn, but more distantly so. That could work, men stay fertile for a long time, these guys aren't that old... And Eowyn wouldn't have to sleep with every single guy, just half of them. (Yes, I know, the thought of a 13 year old girl bearing children is a bit disturbing, but this is a crisis situation here. And it isn't odd in many cultures.)
Final geeky genetics thought: The plane designer doesn't get to sleep with Eowyn. Or her daughters. Cause he's a dick, and we don't need to propogate his genes.
ETA: Oh ho! The plane designer designed MODEL planes. OH SNAP.
1. Dennis Quaid. He's so rugged and tough. And dirty. And sweaty. Rawr.
2. Hugh Laurie. With his full on British accent. YAY! Hey hey hey! He also speaks Mongolian!
3. Eowyn. Yeah, I'm sure the actress has a name, but I don't care. She's Eowyn. And she's awesome.
Now, I didn't see the beginning, so I have no idea how a bunch of people from different countries (given the accents and looks, we have American, Mexican, English, and Irish) ended up on a plane together, and I don't know why that plane crashed in the Mongolian desert. But we ended up with like, 20 guys and Eowyn trying to build a plane.
My first thought was gee, it's a good thing the plane was full of big burly men, capable of working all day in the hot sun, and not, you know, old people and little kids. (We'll forgive there being a plane designer, a pilot, and a welder on board, cause well, no plane crashes without SOME useful people on it.)
My second thought was about the prospective genetic diversity if they had to stay in the desert and start a village. I mean, they do have a woman, so it is possible. If she produced a kid from each man, you'd have a bunch of half siblings... I don't know how messed up their kids would be, but they really wouldn't have any choice... I think though, since there are so many different men, and from such different racial backgrounds, it would be ok. Especially since boys don't inherit their mothers' mitochondria... Oh, and they'd also be preserving white, black, Mexican, and English diversity. (The Mongolian guys shot the Irish guy, so no Irish DNA. Boo.)
Another geeky genetics thought: If Eowyn only slept with some of the guys, and then they waited... 13 years or so for her daughter(s) to hit puberty, then the other guys could knock up the daughters, and well, they'd all still be related to Eowyn, but more distantly so. That could work, men stay fertile for a long time, these guys aren't that old... And Eowyn wouldn't have to sleep with every single guy, just half of them. (Yes, I know, the thought of a 13 year old girl bearing children is a bit disturbing, but this is a crisis situation here. And it isn't odd in many cultures.)
Final geeky genetics thought: The plane designer doesn't get to sleep with Eowyn. Or her daughters. Cause he's a dick, and we don't need to propogate his genes.
ETA: Oh ho! The plane designer designed MODEL planes. OH SNAP.
