Genetic engineering for human enhancement

[Mike_Yates]

Should we start artificially altering the genetic code of humans en masse to make them taller, stronger, more intelligent, live longer and resistant/immune to disease?

http://www.genome.gov/10004767

 

[duranman]

Should we start artificially altering the genetic code of humans en masse to make them taller, stronger, more intelligent, live longer and resistant/immune to disease?

http://www.genome.gov/10004767

A believe a certain Austrian and his entourage embraced this concept nearly 80 years ago..

 

[Mike_Yates]

A believe a certain Austrian and his entourage embraced this concept nearly 80 years ago..

That was 80 years ago before genetic engineering was scientifically possible.

We're still at least several decades away from any human genetic enhancement actually being done on a large scale.

Right now, geneticists have had only minimal success testing on animals.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Should we start artificially altering the genetic code of humans en masse to make them taller, stronger, more intelligent, live longer and resistant/immune to disease?

http://www.genome.gov/10004767

Mike, I am doing my best, but a man only has so much sperm.

 

[Que]

Mike, I am doing my best, but a man only has so much sperm.

You need to pay closer attention to the basal temperature of each virgin in your coterie. Also do not house them together or their ovulation cycles will sync up and you might as well commit the sin of onanism at that point.

 

[Mike_Yates]

It's possible that one day most diseases, deformities, and genetic disorders could be completely eradicated.

The human species could literally be biologically perfected.

 

[DesEsseintes]

You need to pay closer attention to the basal temperature of each virgin in your coterie. Also do not house them together or their ovulation cycles will sync up and you might as well commit the sin of onanism at that point.

I'm not having sex with anyone! That would be inefficient. In vitro all the way.

 

[Que]

I'm not having sex with anyone! That would be inefficient. In vitro all the way.

When you get to be my age, dear boy, you will wish you were less efficient in your youth; that you were more profligate with the spreading of your seed.

I've had a devil of a time trying to live the sort of life one grins about in the nursing home at 80 in such a compressed amount of time left. I figure I have about another 10 good years left to collect stories.

 

[warrior queen]

It's possible that one day most diseases, deformities, and genetic disorders could be completely eradicated.

The human species could literally be biologically perfected.

Just in time for a fucking great asteroid to slam into the Earth and set everything back 60+ million years.

 

[warrior queen]

When you get to be my age, dear boy, you will wish you were less efficient in your youth; that you were more profligate with the spreading of your seed.

I've had a devil of a time trying to live the sort of life one grins about in the nursing home at 80 in such a compressed amount of time left. I figure I have about another 10 good years left to collect stories.

I hear nursing home sex is where it's at *nods*

 

[Que]

I hear nursing home sex is where it's at *nods*

Hmmm. That's good news. I am apt to outlive and be in more vigorous health than my male peers...

 

[warrior queen]

Hmmm. That's good news. I am apt to outlive and be in more vigorous health than my male peers...

I know that here in Oz, std transmission in nursing homes is a huge problem.
Not hard to see why..... all those dementia patients fucking night after night but believing that each night is the first time!

 

[DesEsseintes]

I know that here in Oz, std transmission in nursing homes is a huge problem.
Not hard to see why..... all those dementia patients fucking night after night but believing that each night is the first time!

Imagine having to show an 89 year old man where your clitoris is, over and over and over again.

 

[warrior queen]

Imagine having to show an 89 year old man where your clitoris is, over and over and over again.

Imagine the possibilities!

 

[Jennifer]

Imagine having to show an 89 year old man where your clitoris is, over and over and over again.

How is that different from when he's 39 and you have to do the same?

 

[warrior queen]

How is that different from when he's 39 and you have to do the same?

Heh.
You get to a certain age and you don't use words any more - you just reach down and grab his hand or head and MAKE him find the damn thing!

 

[DesEsseintes]

Imagine the possibilities!

You could have some evil fun, it's true. Imagine him frantically licking your eyebrows, asking if you're wet yet.

How is that different from when he's 39 and you have to do the same?

You are meeting the wrong 39 year olds, Jennifer. Many of them aren't brain-damaged.

 

[Jennifer]

I'm not having sex with anyone! That would be inefficient. In vitro all the way.

Gasp! You told me that all the cool kinky people were using turkey basters for sex.

 

[CandiCame]

You could have some evil fun, it's true. Imagine him frantically licking your eyebrows, asking if you're wet yet.


You are meeting the wrong 39 year olds, Jennifer. Many of them aren't brain-damaged.

I thought that same thing. I remember that being a joke sometimes and never understood it. It's not, you know, hidden in any way.

 

[CandiCame]

As for picking your own genome- yeah. I wish I could have done that. I am literally TERRIFIED that BiteSize is gonna get some weird debilitating disease from my shitty genome. It's so shitty. My dad is fatting himself to death, my grandma has anorexia, there's like 3 kinds of cancer, both sides have kidney failure and shitty calcium/teeth, and the faulty wiring GODDAMN the faulty wiring. If that child isn't unibomber crazy she'll be lucky. I just know she's gonna come home one day with a mask made out of another kid's face.

 

[Jennifer]

As for picking your own genome- yeah. I wish I could have done that. I am literally TERRIFIED that BiteSize is gonna get some weird debilitating disease from my shitty genome. It's so shitty. My dad is fatting himself to death, my grandma has anorexia, there's like 3 kinds of cancer, both sides have kidney failure and shitty calcium/teeth, and the faulty wiring GODDAMN the faulty wiring. If that child isn't unibomber crazy she'll be lucky. I just know she's gonna come home one day with a mask made out of another kid's face.

Well, Candi,that's better than self mutilation, right?

Off topic: starting WindWaker today. Can't wait.

 

[CandiCame]

Well, Candi,that's better than self mutilation, right?

Off topic: starting WindWaker today. Can't wait.

That's in the "faulty wiring" mix.

You'll love WindWaker! Keep us updated cause it's your first Zelda game, right? You should reopen that thread and liveblog it.

 

[DesEsseintes]

As for picking your own genome- yeah. I wish I could have done that. I am literally TERRIFIED that BiteSize is gonna get some weird debilitating disease from my shitty genome. It's so shitty. My dad is fatting himself to death, my grandma has anorexia, there's like 3 kinds of cancer, both sides have kidney failure and shitty calcium/teeth, and the faulty wiring GODDAMN the faulty wiring. If that child isn't unibomber crazy she'll be lucky. I just know she's gonna come home one day with a mask made out of another kid's face.

'Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.'

 

[Mike_Yates]

Just imagine, a world without retards...

 

[Tathagata]

Just imagine, a world without retards...

There goes the GB...