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 Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:47 am
Okay...so I have a race in my story-in-progress called for now, the haemos.
(That's the race, not the story)
Anyways, in one of my writing doodles, they were sitting around discussing which planet to go to for a holiday.
They're excellent at space and all the stuff that comes with it, for some reason.
Inter-planetary vacations are fairly common.
Yet they haven't managed to figure out blood transfusions so far.
So.....yeh....is this reasonable? Given that they do have 676 blood types and there's no universal donor blood or universal receiver blood?
And uhh...does anyone know how this would shape the culture. I figured what we think of as insanely large families would be considered small/normal.
Other than that?
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Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:20 pm
I think whether or not it would be reasonable would depend on how they would work around the issue. There might not be a need for blood transfusions, depending on how they work (or don't work) surgery or whatever else might require a transfusion.
For example, it is hard to envision a society without the wheel. Yet, the pyramids, for all their mass and precision, could concievably been made without the wheel. There are areas of the world where the wheel is impractical for transport (the terrain might be too rough), and would probably never have known of the wheel unless it was introduced.
As another point, blood transfusions might never come about because of political or religious pressure. Christian society went centuries never knowing how, exactly, the body worked because the body was considered sacred- to cut open a corpse would be an offense. At the same time, civilization was steadily advancing in many other fields.
So yes, it would be perfectly reasonable to have a futuristic society without blood transfusions, if you can think of a good obstacle in the way of their invention. The obstacle would also have an effect on the way culture was shaped, so I don't think I could answer your second question.
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