Birth of Ducks

[bi442@lafn.org]

> Then how do you explain the fact that Gus Goose is Grandma Duck's nephew? Or
> the fact that Diamond Dick, the jewel thief who impersonated Scottie
> McTerrier, a dogface, in "The Old Castle's Secret", is related to the
> McDucks?

Just because Gus Goose has the last name "Goose", and Grandma Duck has "Duck" 
does not prove to me that they are from different species. I have the family 
name "Klein", but I am not small as men go. Surnames in this parallel world do 
not necessarily mean that those beings are members of, or their families 
originated from that particular species.

Scottie McTerrier (who looked significantly like a Terrier dog), had married a 
female being whose mother's grandfather had been a McDuck. It is clear from his 
looks, that he, himself, could not have produced progeny with Daisy, for 
example.  I do, however, need to give in on the point of marriage.  In this 
parallel world, members of the different intelligent species, apparently can 
marry.  I assume that they can adopt children of any species.  Perhaps the 
mothers can accept sperm for donors of their own species to have children of at 
least ONE of the married couple.  I admit that if we assume that the science in 
this parallel "Disney or 'Ducks' World" is much advanced of our own, we could 
believe that they have found a way to splice genes of the different species 
marriage partner into a fetus that was conceived originally by a female and 
male of the same species to create an infertal "half breed". If this process 
were to continue over thousands of generations moving towards one parent's 
species or the other, the "cross breed" would eventually have enough similar 
traits to be able to breed with that one original species (or, possibly another 
cross bred individual, but only one who had traits very close to that same 
original species).

This parallel world then is similar to that of many science fiction tales which 
describe a universe with many intelligent species, who live together in a 
society (often as equals).  But... if they look so very different, a scientist 
couldn't really believe that they can interbreed.  As mankind has ventured into 
space, we have found that the same physical laws that apply to Earth apply to 
the entire Universe.  "Magic" is in the eye of the beholder.  We have no 
evidence to lead us to imagine that someday we will "discover" a way to 
interbreed, other than the way I described above.

Now the discussion is getting very interesting to me.  Again, I must state that 
I am not trying to be a killjoy, or tell other Disney fans what they should 
believe.  I must repeat what I stated in my last message:  There is room for 
all fans of all levels of immagination, and/or suspension of current scientific 
knowledge.  I must admit, that what the World's scientists considered "truth" a 
few thousand years ago, is considered superstition and drivel now.  that leads 
us to the safe bet that what we think is "truth" now, will be "proven" 
incorrect, in the future.  We could assume that the parallel world is in the 
distant future or a parallel world that has advanced much beyond our 
civilisation.  But if THAT is the situation, it is too hard for me to accept 
that so very many of the trappings of the latter half of the Twentieth and the 
very early Twenty-first Centuries here on our Earth, still remain in vogue, at 
the same time as those few, distant future scientific advances.  It seems to 
me, that if science advanced so greatly in the area of genetics, the results of 
research in many other areas would show up in daily life.  Perhaps the society 
in the "Disney Universe" is VERY, VERY nostalgic for that 50 to 75 year period 
in their early history; even to the point of affecting almost every aspect of 
their lives.

These are the issues I think about regarding the way I perceive the World 
of "The Ducks", "The Mice", etc. I understand how such thinking might take all 
the fun out of being a fan.  It removes the "magical feeling".  I guess I am 
very atypical of Disney fans. 

Rob
Klein

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