Engineering better athletes?
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Anton posted 35 weeks ago.
Ah...better racing through playing around with the human genome.
Don't people get DQ'd for that?
Much to "Brave New World" for me.
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RV posted 35 weeks ago.
Scary part is that you know at some point someone will try it on humans - just to see what it does. :mad:
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UFTriGator posted 35 weeks ago.
^I'll volunteer when they do:D
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RV posted 35 weeks ago.
UFTriGator;84356 wrote:
^I'll volunteer when they do:D
now now ... we all know that Rocky still beat the 'enhanced' Ivan.
Gotta wonder what all the negative impacts would be if/when this ever is unleashed.:eek:
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Socket posted 35 weeks ago.
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Gotta wonder what all the negative impacts would be if/when this ever is unleashed.
Well, given that the mighty mice are much more aggressive and assuming the same effect in humans: just imagine the washing machine of 2,000 of these guys at IM! The utter chaos of mixing that with adolescence and seeing headlines like "Local Cross Country Team Running Amok!"
Madness I say; madness! 
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PrinceofClydes posted 35 weeks ago.
This reminds me of Goldengirl a 1979 movie starring Susan Anton,
in which they did everything to make her a super track star - except genetic engineering which nobody knew anything about (outside MIT and Science Fiction Weekly)
It came out 7 years after Kornelia Ender and the Amazons of the East German swim team blitzed the rest of the world at the 72 Olympics in Munich - pre steroid testing.
Eugenics - the science and practice of selective breeding is as unpopular as genetic engineering for ethical reasons may produce some spectacular results but I suspect some nasty side effects in subsequent generations would occur. Mutations that may not succeed perhaps.
an interesting book on the subject: Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner - speculative SF.
I just hope they keep the super-mice safely behind locked cage doors.
*shudder*
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Anton posted 35 weeks ago.
No..THIS is where genetic engineering will get you!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7279809637289919950&q=Blade+Runner&total=1079&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1
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PrinceofClydes posted 35 weeks ago.
Ah, Darryl Hannah as a replicant - one of my favs.
btw, Anton is Susan any relation? heh.
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deepbluex posted 35 weeks ago.
That's Captain America's story! Supersoldier secret pentagon project.
RV;84353 wrote:
Scary part is that you know at some point someone will try it on humans - just to see what it does. :mad:
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Anton posted 35 weeks ago.
No.she's not...but these folks are.
http://www.strunz.com/dickbleibtdick.php
And this guy...
http://www.educ.msu.edu/homepages/laurence/reformation/Luther/Luther.htm
I'm only second generation out of the old country...there are a slough of people I'm uncomfortable being related to..believe me...I've seen the family albums.
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Only mice so far, but its pretty crazy to see what messing around with genetics can produce.