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Mutation Creates SuperKid
Tzarius writes "It's not exactly regular Slashdot fare, but the NYTimes has a story about a kid in Berlin (now 4 years old) who was born with naturally massive muscles. It's not a new condition, but it apparently hasn't been recorded in humans before. It also looks like the cause is a suppression of the myostatin protein, which could be reproducible." Reader Spazmasta adds "A gene that blocks production of a muscle-limiting protein (called myostatin) has been found in a abnormally muscular German baby. This news comes apparently 7 years after researchers at Johns Hopkins created 'mighty mice' through a related approach, turning off the gene that produces the muscle-limiting protein. I, for one, welcome our new myostatin-free overlords."
he was born to become the governor of California!
Can you get him to give me my car back?
The Governator has been playing away from home
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
i expect it to be a sitcom-esque situation, where the baby lifts the family car when it gets stuck in the mud.
Reason, free market capitalism, and individualism
I'm not kidding!
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Someone told me he's weak to kryptonite...
and believe me later.
KHAAAAAN!!!!!
R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
Ok, two things about this story are amazing.
Firstly, that a 4 year old toddler can hold 3 kilo individual handheld weights, straight out.
Secondly, that 'many adults' can't hold that much weight. My leatherbound volume of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy has to weigh AT LEAST that much. What the hell is wrong with people?
Well, lets just hope Xavier gets to him first.
-Peter
Let me guess.......Bam-Bam?
Wouldn't it just be TOO funny if he ended up at Xavier University in Ohio?
Does he turn green when he's having a tantrum?
Look at Gene Doping. Look at the bull on page 2.
I am adding this to my spam filter now.
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From the article
There was no information on the baby's father
Second Coming of Christ! This time, he's kicking your ass!!
Rapid Nirvana
Someones gotta show the superbaby how to use his power correctly, right?
there must be a downside to being muscular... I wonder what it is.
Chicks dig the pale glow of a scrawny computer geek.
I can see the future:
Ladies and Gentlmen welcome to Bagdad Olympics 2044 were all sorts of mutants will compete for the gold medal.
For the 300m sprint we have Rabbit-Man with a third leg from LegBotics(TM) with the capability to run(TM) and jump(PATENT PENDING) as high as 4m.
Next to him we have MuscleMan(TM) with genetically engineered MuscleSoft(TM) muscles that can boost performance to all time records.
We hope(TM) you enjoy(TM) the games! Here are a few messages for you...
Yam, yam, uga booga, yam, yam, yade, yade, uga booga, yam, yam, yade, yade
After 65 years worth of failed attempts, the german ubermensch experiment is a success!
I clicked on the next pic in the slide show. It was a picture of a blonde looking at Rasputin's penis in a jar at a Russian museum of erotica. Wasn't expecting that one.
Just above that picture there is a 'next' link. DO NOT FOLLOW THAT LINK!
I told not to follow that link... That blonde does seem to have a certain fascination for that 'artifact'.
Wenn ist das Nunstueck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
This kid was designed to beat up Slashdotters, in high school.
-Patrick
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
The little boy dresses in animal skins, wears a turtle shell hat, carries a club, and can constantly be heard saying, "Bam! Bam! Bam bam bam!".
How ya like dat?
I see a strange, fragile comic book dealer in this kid's future.
--- Ban humanity.
The German people are a super race. This is only the beginning! Now that you have found out our secret we will accelerate our program of eugenics and create an entire nation of super people and once and for all have our thousand year reich.
We now return you to your regularly schedule programming.
>>They were able to use this on mice to enhance one leg by 25% while the other leg's muscles developed normally.
This means I can get my left arm to the same size as my right?
Imagine the money he'll earn supplying sperm banks and renting out his studly services..
I can just see his parents putting green makeup on him for Halloween some year after he sees The Hulk for the first time...
If you can read this sig, congratulations, you have your glasses on!
Barney and Betty's kid? How about a reality check. Consider the following from one of the articles:
They probably couldn't get ahold of the father because he was doing the laundry, taking out the trash or washing dishes, if he knows what's good for him!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
When asked why he was destroying the town, the boy replied "Stan bad! Bechomp bechomp, bechewie chomp, bechewie chomp."
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
> evolution was not a beauty contest. ("Chicks dig muscular guys! I want to be muscular too!") It was about tuning an animal to be able to at least survive its environment
Hence the dazzling fan of the peacock, which the peacock uses to beat it's prey to death in a frightening, yet fashionable, display of evolutionary fitness.
There are many examples of evolution in weird directions for better sexual selection. For example song birds, fireflies, and Bill Clinton's exaggerated male chin.
- For the complete works of Shakespeare: cat
Holy cow!
I mod down all the "free iPod"-sig losers.
"Okay, here's your modelling assignment for today."
"Go to museum and gaze longingly at penis in a jar. I should have stayed in college."
"Bugger this, I want a better world." - Jenny Sparks
Or maybe it's an advantage now, in an industrialized society where there's plenty of food, but hasn't been an advantage for much in our history and prehistory, when famine was much more likely. Maybe, until recently, the chance one of the support systems wouldn't be able to keep up during lean times was that major downside, so the gene hasn't spread much until modern times. Possibly, that major downside has been mitigated or rendered moot.
Hey, when this little guy grows up, he could have a real interest in supporting a society stable enough to protect his geneticly vulnerable to famine uber-offspring. Once he has a few kids, it will make sense if he gets out there and fights for truth, justice, and the German way, and even before he reproduces, he might want to take a not too risky but socially consious job like crusading reporter for a major metropolitan daily.
Who is John Cabal?
The Krauts are at it again. Colonel Hogan already knows and has formed a plan to blow up the secret superbaby factory.
nazi supermen are our superiors
A genetically superior Arian!
Of course, I had the same thought about the "miraculous virgin birth" when I learned about parthenogenesis.
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
If he did he would be turning into a giant monkey every full moon and no one would want that!
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
Translation: "Hi. I'm Hans, and I am here to 'Pump you Up!'"
"He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. " -- John Calvin, commenting on Genesis 1
Hey There,
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... ... ... ...
Okay
You can't just throw out phrases like
Massive muscles
Overlords
Super Kid
And not provide any pictures!?!
I want pictures!
Inquireing minds want to know,
-- The Dude
Damn! I wondered whatever had happened to that lady after she had escaped out of my testing laboratory located deep underground in a remote location.
Luckily, I just sent my best agents to "collect" this child and do more genetic testing on him, as he obviously has far surpassed his mother.
Muhahahaha! Soon I will rule the world with my mutant armies of 4 1/2 year olds!
She was working for Jabba the hut... He will bring balance to the force.
*If it is more than likely that someone with this condition would live only to a normal middle age, then wouldn't it be best for these people to be placed into jobs that require great strength and endurance, but with limited life expectancy? Firefighters, police enforcement, farmers, factory workers, and the army, all staffed with these "supermen".
/fear
/sarcasm
* Taking it a little further, wouldn't it be best to selectively breed this trait into a controlled population to produce an expendable workforce? Have this boy, at the age of sixteen, breed with, say, female prison inmates? Use him in cloning research? Produce large lots of him, creating a whole new subclass of humanity. Modify his genes to limit his intellect, and condition his childhood to instill loyalty, and this new class of people will never revolt, and we, the normals of humanity, will guide their actions to better our lives.
* Add to this scenario just a little more: After experiencing the reign of George Bush, a normal/below average intelligence man trying to run the country, it might be best to breed a class of humanity best suited to rule over others: highly intelligent, long lives, and pleasant to look upon. They too will be conditioned, to make them loyal to America, to humanity, to social stability.
* And we, the normals, are left in the middle. A permanent, middle class, unable to amount to anything grand, but also unable to fall through the cracks of society. Those that cannot produce will be "removed" from the world, into breeding programs, or worse. Everyone will have their place, and society would be perfect.
Damn, I love this brave new world.
3 degrees of separation from Vladimir Putin
...because in Nazi Germany, baby spanks you!
testing out my trending skills