This sounds like good news for people who like to cheat in sports. It's a bizarre sort of thing that the scientists, like they often do, will probably bring about without anyone really knowing or understanding it. What do people think about this?
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This is some bad juju for purist-based sports which aspire to remain free of cheaters such as running. May as well have an anything goes, Steroid-Performance Enhanced Olympic Games and a Steroid-Enhancement Free Olympic Games held seperately. Trouble is, someone would cheat in the steroid-free event in order to win that.
How dramatic is this gene-altering stuff? Will we have 6-4 inch tall chicks benching #380 for reps and running a 3:36 1,500-meter event in 20 years?? USATF, IOC and IAAF had better be able to detect and ban the hell out of this stuff and all of its available derivitives or hang 'em up. If this stuff gets into the TnF realm, 'our' sport as we know it is toast. Won't be anything more than a freak show.
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if this stuff works as advertised, the whole world will be on it (or at least anyone who can afford it). a lot more people would take roids if they weren't worried about dropping dead from a heart attack. and this is supposed to be much better without side effects. so everyone will be freaks. i'm skeptical about there being no side effects though. mice aren't people.
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...sign me up; improved strength, recovery, etc. is all great, I still wouldn't be threatening to take anybody's money off them during big races either. the effect that was most intriguing was improved vision and reflexes. now we are talking about sense manipulation...too cool. how do you think this may have changed your vitruvian man, leonardo? ...by helping keep ones vitality, think of the amount of information your brain could take on since the body would be a mere tool at your disposal for nearly your whole life. we are losing so much potential intelligence and wisdom right now since our elders (70+) are all drugged up and more or less incoherent as a whole, very sad, but at the same time this could be incredibly beneficial for advancing the technological age... anyways, at the least the freak show of athletics will be entertaining and bring money in for the sport. anybody venture to guess the average life expectancy for a baby born in the year 2102? I'll say 120+, with the amount of information impressed upon the mind by death to be 10 - 100X a baby born today. When that culture is riding beams of light, will our bickering over sport look a bit barbaric, or will they think these must have been the good old days?
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yeah, people might even take pills to get all flabby and shit so they can be old school.
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30 years!
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