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parasite eve
Topic Started: Feb 19 2011, 04:56 PM (718 Views)
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Mitochondria are the "energy factories" of biological cells. It is thought that they were originally separate organisms, and a symbiotic relationship between them and early cellular life has evolved into their present position as cell organelles with no independent existence.

The novel's plot supposes that mitochondria, which are inherited through the female line of descent, form the dispersed body of an intelligent conscious life-form, dubbed Eve (more accurately Eve 1), which has been waiting throughout history and evolution for the right conditions when mitochondrial life can achieve its true potential and take over from eukaryotic life-forms (i.e. humans and similar life) by causing a child to be born that can control its own genetic code.

Eve is able to control people's minds and bodies by signalling to the mitochondria in their bodies. She can cause certain thoughts to occur to them and also make them undergo spontaneous combustion.

The conditions Eve has waited for have arrived; she has found the perfect host in the body of Kiyomi Nagishima. At the start of the book, Eve is the mitochondria in Kiyomi's body. She causes Kiyomi to crash her car; Kiyomi survives but is brain dead. Kiyomi's husband is Toshiaki, a research assistant teaching and researching biological science. Eve influences Toshiaki and a doctor to ensure that one of Kiyomi's kidneys is transplanted into the teenage girl Mariko Anzai as an organ donation, as part of Kiyomi's body the kidney is part of Eve. It prepares Mariko to be a suitable host for giving birth to mitochondrial life (her immune system would otherwise rebel against this).

Eve influences Toshiaki to grow some of Kiyomi's liver cells in his lab in sufficient quantities to provide Eve with an independent body, he thinks that he is doing this as an experiment using different cultures of the liver cells. Forming some of the cells into a body, Eve possesses Toshiaki's assistant Sachiko Asakura and intermittently takes control of Asakura to work upon the cultures. Eventually, she takes control of Asakura during a conference presentation speech and announces her presence. Leaving Asakura's body, she returns to the lab. Toshiaki pursues her, and she rapes him in the form of Kiyomi to capture some of his sperm, which she uses to fertilise an egg of her own production. Moving to the hospital, she implants this egg in Mariko's womb. The egg develops into a child that is born almost immediately.

Eve anticipates that her child will be able to consciously change its genetic code, thus being an infinitely adaptable "perfect lifeform" capable of replacing humanity and similar life-forms. Mariko's body will be host to a new race of these life-forms.

The experiment fails, since Toshiaki's sperm carry a separate line of "male" mitochondria (inherited through sperm) that will be wiped out in the new order; these resist the change by fighting for control of the child's body, causing it to switch between male and female forms. The child dies; Toshiaki also dies, merging his body with the child's to control the bursts of psychokinetic-like power it gives out in its death throes that threaten to kill many people.

The was also a game that featured many Neo-mitochondrian like creatures and the was also a creature call the ultimate bein in the game.


http://parasiteeve.wikia.com/wiki/Neo-Mitochondrial_Creatures
http://parasiteeve.wikia.com/wiki/Monkeys
http://parasiteeve.wikia.com/wiki/Frogs
http://parasiteeve.wikia.com/wiki/Bats
http://parasiteeve.wikia.com/wiki/Rats
http://parasiteeve.wikia.com/wiki/Scorpions
http://parasiteeve.wikia.com/wiki/Snakes
http://parasiteeve.wikia.com/wiki/Ultimate_Being
They are oder creatures like a crocodile with electric fans,giant crab,Giant centepi,worm with fans,Three headed dog and giant spider.

So could something like this be possible.
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Feb 19 2011, 04:56 PM
So could something like this be possible.
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How can smething that can only control a cell. control a mind?
"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!"



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Watcher In The Puddle:How can smething that can only control a cell. control a mind?

They could control the evolution,but the mind I dont know.
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Very... novel.

Spontaneous combustion? You can't make it respire that fast...
Anyway, that's regulated by the nucleus and mitochondrial genes...
how does the ability to control their own genetic code help? it'll take years to manifets changes, if at all...

Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Not possible in the least.

First of all, mitochondria just produce ATP for the cell to use and metabolize. They do nothing else. Yes, they have their own genetic code which allows them to reproduce independently of the host cell. But the mitochondria are dependent upon the host cell and vice versa.

Second of all, while there is, in theory, enough potential energy in the human body to cause us to spontaneously combust, it would be next to impossible to actually make it happen.

Third of all, how could a mitochondrion control the body? Nerve cells today have mitochondria, yet the mitochondria aren't controlling the cell; that's the nucleus's job.

Fourth of all, how could a mitochondrion control another body that it's not in? Telepathy is the stuff of science fiction (unless of course you consider pheromones a form of telepathy). And if it was real, it would require more energy than the mitochondria alone could produce.





All in all, just a ridiculous, wholly implausible idea. But it's perfectly fit for a SyFy channel original movie.
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Ok,now that out of the way,what about the ultimate being,perfect organisms could something like that exist.
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No.
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Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

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Holben
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Perfection is almost entirely subjective, and would have traits we can't imagine most probably.

I reckon it's not a worthwhile speculative journey.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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