The bunnies are talking...

Why would Carson, who has the ATA gene, use someone else's DNA to base his work on - especially since he's been working on it since before he ever met John?

(Which means fanon makes no sense, at that.)

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Ha! Two for me, none for you!

Ahem. Was that in my outside voice? See, and I said it didn't make sense for him to have not been working on it before meeting John. Look! Validation!

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Narf. Tem wins at the Intaweb...

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I was thinking it might be because Carson's gene isn't the strongest. Maybe he reached a point in his research where he needed the DNA of someone with a stronger natural gene. Enter John, stage left *grin*

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:-p

*grin*

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But there is nothing in canon that says Carson's gene isn't the strongest - using the ancient tech more easily doesn't necessarily mean there is a difference in the DNA (although to be fair, it doesn't mean there isn't.)

But the real point is that Carson's been working on it since before John ever showed up, so why would he dump all his materials to start over? He tells Rodney that he can do human trials in the Pegasus galaxy because it's legal - back on earth he couldn't do human trials. Which means he was ready to do so (his research was at that point).

But if you want an excuse to make Rodney have John's DNA, then just have Carson have taken samples from all the ATA folk so he could compare and contrast, and it's just chance that Rodney got John's, or something.

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'Tis not for me. It was just a conversation I was having with

temaris where we were trying to remember if it was canon or fanon. I went for canon, she went for fanon. She winz at teh intaweb *grin*

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Canon has never stated the source of the DNA Carson uses in his research. Common sense says he would use his own, because it's the most accessible, and because canonically he found it in himself before he ever met John.

You so lose. ;-)

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I do? I *do*! Whee! *g*

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Hee! Thank you!

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Oh, Temaris, I forgot to tell you - you can just paypal the $20 to me. (And if you ever need me to verify anything else, just lemme know!)

;-)

runs

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Hey, Claire, look! Porn! *texts furiously*

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You do! You really, really do!

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*grin*

I shall lose with stoic grace, and then pout and stamp my foot when no one's looking ;-)

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Hey! No fair with the ganging up on me :-P

*grin*

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