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 Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:34 am
no! sorry blasphemy! (unless they look like that one invader w/ a cat/sur robot thing (what was the name?
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:27 pm
..........I still think Ms Bitters is half irken.
It explains the glasses.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:38 pm
Just 1 question: How fast would it turn into meatloaf? lol
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:24 pm
I've thought about this since I last read this thread in its entirety. Here are my musings (enters college lecture mode):
Irkens and humans could not reproduce sexually, for Irkens lack the necessary organs. Using certain technologies, however, an Irken might be able to "engineer" a sperm cell to fertilise an egg, thus creating the embryo, which would be placed in a modified smeeting chamber (remember, Irken children/babies are called smeets). The chances of a successful embryo, however, are between extremely slim and nonexistent. This is because the Irken genome most likely does not have the necessary set of chromosomes (26 pairs, if I remember my human biology correctly).
However, should an Irken-human hybrid exist, there would be benefits and drawbacks. Hybrids would possess superior strength, constitution and intelligence as compared to normal humans, plus not need the vital Pak that a pureblood Irken needs to survive. There would most likely be redundant organs, as the squeedlyspooch is supposedly a combined superorgan that does everything the heart and brain cannot.
The drawbacks are water tolerance and food allergies. Irkens must have some form of water resistance to survive on Earth without special environmental suits (like Zim's spacesuit in Planet Jackers and Battle of the Planets; his Combat Biosuit, as I shall call it). The planet's atmosphere contains a significant amount of water vapour and moisture; if Zim could not handle water, he would be incapable of setting foot on Earth without instantly sizzling. A hybrid would have increased water tolerance, perhaps so that swimming would cause pain like a mild sunburn. Food allergies would be present, but not so terrible as to cause the hybrid to choke or burn on contact. (There is a theory of mine that it really IS the cafeteria food that Zim can't handle; perhaps he could eat better Earth food and survive. But that's a different lecture.)
In short, an Irken-human hybrid would be superior to either race alone, but would be nearly impossible to produce under most conditions, even with the benefit of the Irkens' mastery of their own genetics to the fine art of creating a smeet to order. Perhaps if they could master the humans' genome, a hybrid could be researched and produced. The perfect Invader, indeed!
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