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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton
Tyrell: The facts of life. To make an alteration in the evolvment of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
Roy: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship. Then the ship sinks.
Roy: What about EMS recombination.
Tyrell: We've already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate as an alkylating agent a potent mutagen It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.
Roy: Then a repressive protein that blocks the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries the mutation and you've got a virus again. But, uh, this-- all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
Roy: But not to last.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. And you have burned so very very brightly, Roy. Look at you. You're the prodigal son. You're quite a prize!
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What if Deckard was a replicant...
...but not built by Tyrell? Perhaps a rogue corporation solved the aging problem with replicants? Off world labs?
We know they go to Las Vegas in the new movie, perhaps a shadow corporation doing research in a remote location?
I was of the camp that so very strongly wanted Deckard to be a replicant, Nexus 7, and to die off screen a year or two after the movie. Unfortunately, now that we know that that does not happen, we must accept the next most likely scenario, until proven otherwise. Occam's Razor says that he is a human as of now, because no other reasonable scenario exists that is more likely.