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#1: Who has been raising purebred German Shepherds* for 200-odd years despite the near-total collapse of civilization?


*And now Great Danes, Black Labs, Boxers, &c! Puppy Mills of The Wasteland!
 
Father: I had a courser watching the vault exit for years. As soon as it started cycling, it teleported back and I had the caniform unit deployed to the Red Rocket near your old home. When our people swept the house after I was removed from the vault, they found an empty dog bowl and recovered some remarkably viable DNA. When I discovered them in the archives, I realized an Alastian would be a creature you would be likely to trust readily. I had hoped to reconstruct my birth mother and place it in the cryopod and dispose of the carcass, but the records indicated you may have witnessed her termination, and if that were true, the risk of raising your suspicions would have been too great.

Teleporting the caniform unit to Diamond City when you entered Kellogg's residence was risky, but for some reason you didn't seem at all surprised when it appeared outside, ready to track our agent. Kellogg was supposed to subdue you and bring you in for study at that point, but he was always unpredictable. The Courser Program had made him effectively obsolete by that point, so his destruction was only a minor setback.

Thank you for taking the caniform with you to the agitators' headquarters, by the way. Our strike team should be mopping up there about this time. We shall replace the most prominent members with customized Coursers and maintain the facade of their operation, bringing the malfunctioning synths right back to us with far less collateral damage.

Nate: German Shepherd, you freaking monster!
 
WetRats said:
#1: Who has been raising purebred German Shepherds* for 200-odd years despite the near-total collapse of civilization?


*And now Great Danes, Black Labs, Boxers, &c! Puppy Mills of The Wasteland!
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With all these breeds, how could they have not included a BOSTON Terrier?
 
#2 why are there mutfruit in pre-war lunchboxes?

#3 who keeps restocking the nukacola machines?

#4 if herbivores outnumber predators by about 100 to 1in nature, where are the huge-ass herds of brahmin and radstag which support the deathclaw population?
 
#5: How do Brahmin and Radstags survive the birthing process?
 
So the sole survivor really is a synth? Or not. My spouse really isn't dead?

:)
 
MrCJohn said:
So the sole survivor really is a synth? Or not. My spouse really isn't dead?

:)
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Nope. The Institute would never put a synth in place as Director. And "Nora" is a doornail.
 
The double heads are gonna be hell to get through the birth canal. At least one neck would probably break, and the mother would probably be fatally injured.
 
not sure about that. don't forget that birth is way easier for quadrupeds than for humans. also, the necks might be flexible enough so that it doesnt matter even if one gets bent sideways during birth.


that said: maybe that's the reason why they function at all: during birth, one neck breaks, severing it's spinal cord. the other head then has full control over the body, without interference. The broken one retains control of it's neck muscles and still can eat, but nothing else.

edit: butt-first birth happen in humans, why not in cattle as well?
 
Breech births are incredibly dangerous, and without a skill pair of hands assisting, are often fatal for one or both parties involved. I'm pretty sure a double-headed birth would need someone with thumbs involved in order to give any chance of survival.

To me, the two-headed thing seems a very unlikely mutation to survive, let alone thrive. Especially in at least three different species.
 
As mutifruit in prewar lunch boxes was mentioned, it still bugs me to see prewar Vertibirds, Jet and X series power armour. And now 76 seems to have deathclaws and supermutants only a few decades after the bombs. Lore seems to gotten rather flexible.
 
As I have mentioned elsewhere:

* prewar beer still exists in bathrooms/toilets across the commonwealth
* prewar jet/buffout/other drugs still exist in bathrooms/toilets

... yes I really feel like drinking/inhaling that badly-degraded junk.

(Brings new meaning to the slang term “piss”.)
 
Whisper said:
As I have mentioned elsewhere:

* prewar beer still exists in bathrooms/toilets across the commonwealth
* prewar jet/buffout/other drugs still exist in bathrooms/toilets

... yes I really feel like drinking/inhaling that badly-degraded junk.

(Brings new meaning to the slang term “piss”.)
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Just like with pre-war food, these are the results of the pre-war red scare prepper hype! All companies outdid each other with even more preservatives, even longer shelf lives! Cram: Expiration Date: Never! Prepared for the Future!

For pre-war jet, you could say: some pharma company indeed manufactured it before the war. Then, after the bombs fell, some junkie and/or chemists tried to synthesize the active ingredient themselves, and found a way to do so using brahmin shit.

And, now, thanks to WetRats, I watched several videos of cows being born.
Seems like they come out front legs first, with the head aligned with them nose first. I can imagine it to work with two heads the same way.

The real question is: why are two heads even such a common mutation in ungulates?
 
I used to work with a woman whose boyfriend's family raised cattle. One time a calf presented breech, and Leslie stripped down to her bra, put her arm in that cow and turned the calf around, saving both of them. Her boyfriend's father looked at the suckling calf, looked at Leslie toweling the blood off of half her body, told him "Boy, if you don't marry her, I will."
 
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Newspapers that have lasted for 210 years. Really, they needed to make them that non-biodegradable? ;)
 
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