Mutants

[KidViciou$]

is it possible for humans to evovle and obtain mutant powers? is it possible to alter yourself to have powers?

i'm talking about as far as research going on now, and not "anything is possible"

 

[Nebor]

I think you must be halfway there.

 

[sonambulo]

you can start off by bathing in some nuclear waste

 

[Hyperblaze]

to be completely honest, you just never know!

We've evolutionized from sapiens to homo sapiens and who knows what the next stage is!

ps: if i'm wrong with the stages, sorry! but you get my point I hope!

 

[paruhd0x]

I have a super mutant cat that can roll sideways to get around rather then walk.

 

[KidViciou$]

if bathing in nuclear waste would give me powers, then lead me to the waste!


(i've been watching X-men everyday since it comes on toon disney, and have been enthralled with all the episodes i missed as a kid. i think i have some mental problem where i long to be in cartoon universes when i watch things like x-men, or disney movies)

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: KidViciou$
if bathing in nuclear waste would give me powers, then lead me to the waste!


(i've been watching X-men everyday since it comes on toon disney, and have been enthralled with all the episodes i missed as a kid. i think i have some mental problem where i long to be in cartoon universes when i watch things like x-men, or disney movies)

get up, head towards the door, open the door, walk though the door, open any go through any door which remains before you attain the outside. Breath the air.

 

[Nebor]

Originally posted by: sonambulo
you can start off by bathing in some nuclear waste

"Mayor West, you have lymphoma. It's probably from rolling around in all that nuclear waste."

 

[So]

No. You'll have to continue to live vicariously through the comics you keep in your mothers basement, and then die alone.

 

[Kibbo]

Humans stopped evolving as soon as we found agriculture. The food surplus (and social interdependence) since then has meant that evolution is no longer a competition between individuals of a species for limited resources, (like turtles, where the individuals with longer necks would thrive), but rather where societies as a whole will compete. IE, our taxation of freely produced goods will buy more cruise missles than your slave labour system (or vice versa) and will gain the (insert uranium, oil, albumin, or salt here).

We are running 21st century software on 10 thousand year old hardware, and the only way out (we can see from here) is to apply 22nd century software to that same hardware. Of course, the initial procedure will still be guided by apes.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: Kibbo
Humans stopped evolving as soon as we found agriculture. The food surplus (and social interdependence) since then has meant that evolution is no longer a competition between individuals of a species for limited resources, (like turtles, where the individuals with longer necks would thrive), but rather where societies as a whole will compete. IE, our taxation of freely produced goods will buy more cruise missles than your slave labour system (or vice versa) and will gain the (insert uranium, oil, albumin, or salt here).

We are running 21st century software on 10 thousand year old hardware, and the only way out (we can see from here) is to apply 22nd century software to that same hardware. Of course, the initial procedure will still be guided by apes.

What kind of gibberish are you talking about? Of course humans are still evolving! Just because we have better managed our resources does not mean that we somehow just "stopped evolving altogether"! :roll:

 

[Fritzo]

Uh no. Changing your DNA won't allow you to manipulate things around you. It will give you cancer and you'll die.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: sonambulo
you can start off by bathing in some nuclear waste

"Mayor West, you have lymphoma. It's probably from rolling around in all that nuclear waste."

That's the first thing I thought of when I read this thread

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
I have a super mutant cat that can roll sideways to get around rather then walk.

:camera:

 

[ShotgunSteven]

They are already among you. :Q

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Jehovah

Originally posted by: Kibbo
Humans stopped evolving as soon as we found agriculture. The food surplus (and social interdependence) since then has meant that evolution is no longer a competition between individuals of a species for limited resources, (like turtles, where the individuals with longer necks would thrive), but rather where societies as a whole will compete. IE, our taxation of freely produced goods will buy more cruise missles than your slave labour system (or vice versa) and will gain the (insert uranium, oil, albumin, or salt here).

We are running 21st century software on 10 thousand year old hardware, and the only way out (we can see from here) is to apply 22nd century software to that same hardware. Of course, the initial procedure will still be guided by apes.

What kind of gibberish are you talking about? Of course humans are still evolving! Just because we have better managed our resources does not mean that we somehow just "stopped evolving altogether"! :roll:

No...he's somewhat correct. I'll add to that practicing medicine has also slowed human evolution to a crawl. There's no more survival of the fittest. In the wilderness, people with physical handicaps, poor eyesight, and other defects would most likely not survive, and they surely would not be able to compete to reproduce. Medical science has allowed people with damaged genes and defects to keep passing them along, therefore eliminating "survival of the fittest" from human evolution. Now, you can't say it's completely stopped, because agriculture is actually making us larger. The average human male today is something like 9-12" taller than the average male 2000 years ago (I don't remember the exact figure).

 

[KidViciou$]

:|:frown:

this sux

 

[RaDragon]

I think you've been watching one-too-many Mutant X shows, and reading one-too-many X-men comic books.

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if the US Military were already in the works for a superhuman soldier.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Jehovah

Originally posted by: Kibbo
Humans stopped evolving as soon as we found agriculture. The food surplus (and social interdependence) since then has meant that evolution is no longer a competition between individuals of a species for limited resources, (like turtles, where the individuals with longer necks would thrive), but rather where societies as a whole will compete. IE, our taxation of freely produced goods will buy more cruise missles than your slave labour system (or vice versa) and will gain the (insert uranium, oil, albumin, or salt here).

We are running 21st century software on 10 thousand year old hardware, and the only way out (we can see from here) is to apply 22nd century software to that same hardware. Of course, the initial procedure will still be guided by apes.

What kind of gibberish are you talking about? Of course humans are still evolving! Just because we have better managed our resources does not mean that we somehow just "stopped evolving altogether"! :roll:

No...he's somewhat correct. I'll add to that practicing medicine has also slowed human evolution to a crawl. There's no more survival of the fittest. In the wilderness, people with physical handicaps, poor eyesight, and other defects would most likely not survive, and they surely would not be able to compete to reproduce. Medical science has allowed people with damaged genes and defects to keep passing them along, therefore eliminating "survival of the fittest" from human evolution. Now, you can't say it's completely stopped, because agriculture is actually making us larger. The average human male today is something like 9-12" taller than the average male 2000 years ago (I don't remember the exact figure).

hrm, actually, all it means is that the environment has changed the requirements of survival. Physical handicaps like poor eyesight, lesser coordination no longer have such a large importance in terms of survival. Nowadays, something like increased cranial capacity, raised intelligence, stronger mental, social, and analytical ability tend to dictate the a higher standard of living and really, people with defects are still less likely to reproduce than otherwise normally endowed people. Given a long enough timeline, it's likely many defects will be strained out and those that are left will no longer have significant impact on life.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: yoda291

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Jehovah

Originally posted by: Kibbo
Humans stopped evolving as soon as we found agriculture. The food surplus (and social interdependence) since then has meant that evolution is no longer a competition between individuals of a species for limited resources, (like turtles, where the individuals with longer necks would thrive), but rather where societies as a whole will compete. IE, our taxation of freely produced goods will buy more cruise missles than your slave labour system (or vice versa) and will gain the (insert uranium, oil, albumin, or salt here).

We are running 21st century software on 10 thousand year old hardware, and the only way out (we can see from here) is to apply 22nd century software to that same hardware. Of course, the initial procedure will still be guided by apes.

What kind of gibberish are you talking about? Of course humans are still evolving! Just because we have better managed our resources does not mean that we somehow just "stopped evolving altogether"! :roll:

No...he's somewhat correct. I'll add to that practicing medicine has also slowed human evolution to a crawl. There's no more survival of the fittest. In the wilderness, people with physical handicaps, poor eyesight, and other defects would most likely not survive, and they surely would not be able to compete to reproduce. Medical science has allowed people with damaged genes and defects to keep passing them along, therefore eliminating "survival of the fittest" from human evolution. Now, you can't say it's completely stopped, because agriculture is actually making us larger. The average human male today is something like 9-12" taller than the average male 2000 years ago (I don't remember the exact figure).

hrm, actually, all it means is that the environment has changed the requirements of survival. Physical handicaps like poor eyesight, lesser coordination no longer have such a large importance in terms of survival. Nowadays, something like increased cranial capacity, raised intelligence, stronger mental, social, and analytical ability tend to dictate the a higher standard of living and really, people with defects are still less likely to reproduce than otherwise normally endowed people. Given a long enough timeline, it's likely many defects will be strained out and those that are left will no longer have significant impact on life.

Amen to that! "Fittest" here is not merely referred to the musculature of a certain individual.

Nice try, idiots. :evil: