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[Sergarr]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-health-genetherapy-price-idUSKCN0JA1TP20141126

Kinda neat, despite the initial price.  Gene therapy has a lot of potential to fix a lot of things. 

how soon until somebody demand to develop a cure for autism

[scrdest]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-health-genetherapy-price-idUSKCN0JA1TP20141126

Kinda neat, despite the initial price.  Gene therapy has a lot of potential to fix a lot of things. 

how soon until somebody demand to develop a cure for autism

Alternately, 'My son/daughter is ginger! I don't want a ginger child! Fix it!'

I think that would actually be doable. Red hair is caused by a defect in the structure of one of the melanins, so fixing the gene encoding it would mean the person would revert to non-red hair. Of course, it's also fucking pointless.

[Lagslayer]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-health-genetherapy-price-idUSKCN0JA1TP20141126

Kinda neat, despite the initial price.  Gene therapy has a lot of potential to fix a lot of things. 

how soon until somebody demand to develop a cure for autism

Alternately, 'My son/daughter is ginger! I don't want a ginger child! Fix it!'

I think that would actually be doable. Red hair is caused by a defect in the structure of one of the melanins, so fixing the gene encoding it would mean the person would revert to non-red hair. Of course, it's also fucking pointless.

Hooray for eugenics!

[Levi]

I can't wait till they come up with gene therapy that cures me of having only two arms.  Life as a mere two-armed person is kind of lame.   

[scrdest]

I can't wait till they come up with gene therapy that cures me of having only two arms.  Life as a mere two-armed person is kind of lame.   

That can be organized.

* scrdest takes out a fireaxe.

[Lagslayer]

I can't wait till they come up with gene therapy that cures me of having only two arms.  Life as a mere two-armed person is kind of lame.   

That can be organized.

* scrdest takes out a fireaxe.

Dude, don't even joke about something that barbaric. We are a civilized people. You should strap him to the medical table and use the medical laser.

[Angle]

Wings sound good, though I'd rather have Angel-Wings. What I'd really like to have, though, is super-skin. So that I could run barefoot over gravel or such, and not get hurt by it. Really, take any normal human capability and turn it up to eleven, and it'd be awesome.

[Sheb]

Yeah, I used to walk barefoot a lot, and even small glass pieces wouldn't pierce my soles.

[Duuvian]

I wonder if you could build a machine that toughens your feet while being less uncomfortable than walking on painful terrain. Oh wait, they did, it's called a shoe.

I was watching Stan Lee's Superhumans the other day and there was a father and son who according to how the show put it are around 200 times as resistant to electricity as normal people are. That could be a fun mutation if it has no down side.

[Levi]

I was watching Stan Lee's Superhumans the other day and there was a father and son who according to how the show put it are around 200 times as resistant to electricity as normal people are. That could be a fun mutation if it has no down side.

Geez, I wonder what kind of bizarre accident happened to them that led them to finding that out.

[Angle]

I wonder if you could build a machine that toughens your feet while being less uncomfortable than walking on painful terrain. Oh wait, they did, it's called a shoe.

Boooooorrrrring.

[Reelya]

I can't wait till they come up with gene therapy that cures me of having only two arms.  Life as a mere two-armed person is kind of lame.   

They're working on the extra arms bit:

http://www.gizmag.com/mit-supernumerary-robotic-arms/32793/

Robot arms with AI that can sense what you're doing and help out automatically.

[Lagslayer]

I can't wait till they come up with gene therapy that cures me of having only two arms.  Life as a mere two-armed person is kind of lame.   

They're working on the extra arms bit:

http://www.gizmag.com/mit-supernumerary-robotic-arms/32793/

Robot arms with AI that can sense what you're doing and help out automatically.

Just when I thought transhumanism couldn't sink any lower. They don't even want your mind to control your own limbs.

[Levi]

I can't wait till they come up with gene therapy that cures me of having only two arms.  Life as a mere two-armed person is kind of lame.   

They're working on the extra arms bit:

http://www.gizmag.com/mit-supernumerary-robotic-arms/32793/

Robot arms with AI that can sense what you're doing and help out automatically.

Awesome.  I was thinking under my current arms, but now that I think about it on the shoulder makes more sense.

[MaximumZero]

I can't wait till they come up with gene therapy that cures me of having only two arms.  Life as a mere two-armed person is kind of lame.   

They're working on the extra arms bit:

http://www.gizmag.com/mit-supernumerary-robotic-arms/32793/

Robot arms with AI that can sense what you're doing and help out automatically.

Awesome.  I was thinking under my current arms, but now that I think about it on the shoulder makes more sense.

Why not both?