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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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Friday and weekends: Caption contest. An image will be pinned, and we shall make captions for it and post them in the comments.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

cough edit: you will also find that in return of the jedi he has brown hair meaning as he aged his hair got darker this is pretty normal in people who's parents have brown/black hair

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also for people who grow up in sunny places and move away.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

which guess what luke grew up on Tatooine which is a warm climate we can confirm this from the phantom menace Tatooine being a literal desert and as well yoda saying how feel you anakin replies cold sir because Coruscant. is a much colder climate then Tatooine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And young anakin hair was pretty light colored dirty blonde in some conditions too.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Can confirm. Was blonde until I was around 6 or 7 when it started to darken.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (6 children)

C'mon man... Learn genetics. Seriously. Recessive genes can ABSOLUTELY express themselves in a child from even one parent being a carrier regardless of how the parents' genes express. In addition, random mutations can and DO produce weird things.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

100% this. My wife and I are both white, but our daughter was born black. Crazy how those genetics work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Uh... folks, do we tell him?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm also pretty sure he qualifies for the "started blond but turned brown" camp anyways. It's so sun bleached in that photo lol

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, it's entirely possible for a child of two brown-haired parents to have blonde or even red hair.

For one thing, blonde hair tends to get darker as you get older, and so a lot of people who were born with blonde hair can end up with dirty blonde, light brown or even dark brown hair. This can mask the fact that they technically have the genetics for blonde hair.

Another factor is that blonde hair is a recessive gene, which (if I remember my genetics correctly) means that not everyone who has the gene will actually gets blonde hair because they need two copies of it instead of one; something which can get further confused by whether you're born with XX, XY, or some other combination of chromosomes (I think, if I remember correctly, that some genes are more likely to express themselves with XY chromosomes or vice versa, not sure if that's true for hair color). So you can have a family with brown hair, but if the genetics line up just right, you can get a blonde-haired kid (if I understand correctly, this is also true for red hair).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also, it's a movie and these people are actors with no meaningful genetic relationship between them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

This joke meme is very specifically NOT a movie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Especially when one of the parents was conceived by a force being

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had very light blond hair as a child. Both of my parents have dark brown hair. My hair is now very dark brown.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I was light brown and blonde as a kid, black now, I have one son with blonde hair, one with black, My dad commented once that my blonde son looks just like I did as a kid, and my black haired son looks just like I do now. Also two blonde daughters, the oldest in her teens, her hair is darker in spots, but still some blonde. My youngest had a lot of red mixed in as well, but that's all gone by now.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

114 people don't understand genetics.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

They must have skipped yellow-pea/green-pea day in high school Biology.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Seems Obi Wan was a better liar than he let on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Right, right. Korkie was Satine’s nephew.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'll do what I must

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

He lives and works in the fucking desert - his hair is sun bleached.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bleach effect from Tatooine? You might need to check if the carpet matches the drapes - any volunteers? :-P

I do ofc concede that there may be... alternative explanations.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are MANY explanations before sun bleaching. ... though +1 for the Bleach reference.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

144 of you dont understand genetics! Most embarrassing, most embarrassing!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

You can see his roots in the photo above. Mark Hamil before sun bleached:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

The difference between living indoors on Coruscant and working outside on Planet Phoenix.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

My sister and I were both born with blonde hair (though our hair is more dirty blonde/brown now), but both my parents have brown hair; so it's entirely possible to get blonde hair from two brown-haired parents.

Ironically I used to wish my hair was brown because I liked the Beatles and they had brown/black hair! Now that I'm an adult and don't have the same enthusiasm for them anymore, I wish I had blonde hair again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I don't know how that works in outer space, but here on earth that would be totally normal and is called "genetics". Might want to look that up some time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

All these people arguing over genetics. Meanwhile, Boromir has apparently seen some shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Have you seen his acting career? Dude has experienced more deaths than a red shirt extra.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like a lot of the commenters here are not getting the reference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Myself included.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Luke has blue eyes. ~~It is impossible for a blue eyed person to have anything but two blue eyed parents.~~

Well, I don't know where I picked up that bit of misinformation. The odds of a blue eyed person having two brown eyed parents is 25%.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Its the opposite, parents with blue eyes can only pass on blue genes. But also everything we learned in school about genetics is a simplification. Theres a whole spectrum of eye color hues.

Generally darker is seems more dominant so a good rule Is a child is unlikely to have darker features then the parents.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Not true, genetics can just do weird shit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

You probably reversed something you learned a long time ago. It's impossible for two blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child unless there's a random mutation, which I guess can happen, but is incredibly rare.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

TIL I cheated on my wife when she had... wait a second. /s

That's not true at all. Blue eyes needs two recessive genes where Brown eyes only need one recessive gene. So you can have parents where both have brown eyes but they both have the dominant gene for brown eyes and the recessive gene for blue eyes. Then if both recessive genes are passed on to a child they will have blue eyes.

Of course there's a few more complications to this as human eyes aren't predicated on one gene, but it's a good enough simplification.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Eh, you're close, just backwards - if both parents have blue eyes, the child is (more-or-less) guaranteed to have blue eyes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have blue eyes, and my wife has brown eyes. Our daughter has blue eyes. We also have a son with brown eyes.

Recessive genes work that way.

Bb x bb

____B___b
b___Bb__bb
b___Bb__bb

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

BBy Bby

Bby bby

Checks out

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Luke Skywalker is a cultivar of a pea, confirmed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That or sunlight bleaches brown hair

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This was BBY? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

[–] therealjcdenton 3 points 2 months ago

Wouldnt the sun cause that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

don't forget that black couple in real life that had a white, blonde, blue eyed baby

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