Hi Bek!
Scientifically, his tests were reliable, comprehensive, and conclusive.
Superman reported that he attempted conception on the full moon, half moon, quarter moon, new moon, and even during a blood moon. He tried it after dancing the Ngongu tribe fertility dance. Every conceivable measure had been taken, but to no avail.
The man who had hinted at having a very special woman in his life and who had seemed delighted at the possibility of starting a family.
Which means they now have to do it the normal way – cloning. Maybe they can even track down the scientist who created the Lex-Superman chimera.
He stared at the page for several moments, squinting and turning it upside down. His eyes widened as several patterns appeared to emerge. Patterns he hadn’t noticed before. Patterns that might make the impossible…a tiny bit less so, given a little…luck? If the chromosomes with the greatest homology would line up, just so… And if the extra Kryptonian genes…
The genes are backwards?
Maybe he hadn’t done every possible test after all.
Awwww…he figured out that the child must appear before the conception for human-kryptonian reproduction to be successful
I do wonder now if that is just a happy tag-on to give us hope, or if it shows how Bernie is toiling away at his own version of Sysiphus' labor.
Thanks for the little interlude, and now back to our regularly scheduled Bek story.
Michael
