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If you can edit out the bad stuff, though, why would it matter?
I'm all for deleting the fatal stuff. Where we go wrong is that we don't know "bad" from "inconvenient" from "really not that big of a deal". Historically we choose the pettiest things to show "perfection". People like Nazis would kill a disabled person when that person might have had the cure for cancer in their genes. People are really dumb. Hey, maybe we can edit that out?
Yeah, robots don't need to eat or sleep. I think we can all remember 1996, I think it was, when Khan Noonien Singh and his super-buddies were tossed out into space for being dictatorial jerks.
Feeding soldiers is cheap when you realize they're there to get shot.
Ugh, the Nazis were so stupid. It's ironic that they claimed to base their ideology on science when it was completely pseudo-scientific. They killed people with schizophrenia and alcoholism, for example, when we now know those things are treatable and controllable. Not too long after WWII, psych meds were developed. So sad.
Either way, there's no reason or excuse for a prepubescent child to have the musculature of an adult bodybuilder. That's just grotesque and disturbing.I share your optimism that genome editing techniques will be used to delete faulty genetic mutations and insert biologically healthy genes for the spawning of a biologically superior race. I've had to use steroids and intense weight training to obtain a nearly perfect body and strength, but perhaps specimens of a biologically superior race could obtain bodily perfection without the struggles I've had to endure with body building. Steroids have given me anger management issues and have made made me a ticking time bomb ready to explode, but a genetically perfect body could obtain the same strength and physique without the nasty side effects of steroids. Right?
I’ll stick with drones.
Yes, I'm aware of other countries making use of the Nazi's medical research. What's your point? Does that excuse what they did?
Ah, he's one of those mutants you mentioned.Liam Hoekstra, “the world’s strongest toddler,” has a rare condition called myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy.
"Myostatin (also known as growth differentiation factor 8, abbreviated GDF-8) is a myokine, a protein produced and released by myocytes that acts on muscle cells' autocrine function to inhibit myogenesis: muscle cell growth and differentiation. In humans it is encoded by the MSTN gene.[6] Myostatin is a secreted growth differentiation factor that is a member of the TGF beta protein family."
Myostatin - Wikipedia
Even a blind squirrel finds the occasional nut.
Technological advances will likely make biology obsolete, anyway. I think we're more likely to end up with soliders using combat exoskeletons than something like Gattaca. But we'll see.
If he wants to. Honestly, a quick Google search just brings up a bunch of tabloid sites and a brief ABC article from 9 years ago, so who knows what's going on there.
I share your optimism that genome editing techniques will be used to delete faulty genetic mutations and insert biologically healthy genes for the spawning of a biologically superior race. I've had to use steroids and intense weight training to obtain a nearly perfect body and strength, but perhaps specimens of a biologically superior race could obtain bodily perfection without the struggles I've had to endure with body building. Steroids have given me anger management issues and have made made me a ticking time bomb ready to explode, but a genetically perfect body could obtain the same strength and physique without the nasty side effects of steroids. Right?
