Unnatural Atheletes

Hey has any one heard about Genetic enhancements? I was reading this article about how it can decrease fat and increase you muscles and how you muscles get bigger faster last longer and are stronger... Has any one hear about this?

That's very unethical 😕

is it really enhancing your genes or just changing your genetic traits?

i'm really not sure... i was reading it on a maxim magize one day and i did some research on it and it said something about how in 2008's olympics are going to be the last non-genetically enhanced olympics and how it's completely undectable...

it's also called "Genetic Doping"

http://www.betterhumans.com/Features/Reports/report.aspx?articleID=2004-08-09-1 hey hears the link if you guys want to read up on it....it's really interesting

also theres something called " Gene Therapy"

I look forward to the day when we can safely have genetic enhancements, I think it is the next logical step on advancing humanity. Fixing problems, enhancing whats there, its an exciting field of study and science.

It has side efforts no doubt since everything else does.I would not touch that stuff with a twenty and a half pole!LOL!JM

Originally posted by AdventChild
also theres something called " Gene Therapy"

It has side efforts no doubt since everything else does.

Thats why it is important to do a lot more research into so it can be safely used to benefit humanity.

I don' t pursue perfection nor immortality.

I dont seek anything, f**k it, Im happy as I am.

Who knows, in the future, will there be anything aside from old age or accidents to die from?

I don't think its about perfection, or immortality, though I guess it could get there, but it seems like a logical progression. After all, a great deal of science has gone towards stopping disease, improving our lives, letting us live longer, in healthier, fitter ways, why not take it to the next logical step and get down to genetics where it all happens? While there may seem to be a vast difference between, say, taking vitamins and improving genes, is there really? Isn't it about making the most out of our lives, insuring health, pushing the boundaries as it were?

I think it very cool hell if they sold the stuff I might consider getting stronger

I agree 100 % with what Friedmann states in the article. Instead of a feat of athleticism being the result of skill, training and dedication, in the future people will wonder if it's a simple product of bioengineering.
Those victories would mean nothing to me, worthless...

Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
I don't think its about perfection, or immortality, though I guess it could get there, but it seems like a logical progression. After all, a great deal of science has gone towards stopping disease, improving our lives, letting us live longer, in healthier, fitter ways, why not take it to the next logical step and get down to genetics where it all happens? While there may seem to be a vast difference between, say, taking vitamins and improving genes, is there really? Isn't it about making the most out of our lives, insuring health, pushing the boundaries as it were?

True, but that could be said for for basically anything. The splitting of the atom, understanding of diseases and so forth...

And I doubt it would render all training obsolete. One imagines that it is a long way off before we have bio-engineered Olympics, and if that day does come, and all competitors are bioengineered, well, the is still the need for skill and training and dedication. And besides, athleticism has come a long way since, say, 50 years ago, or 100, or a couple of thousand, new technology, new techniques, new knowledge, allowing people to run faster, for longer distances. After all, look at state of the art track clothing made to cut down wind resistance. Or in the pool, the controversy over the "shark suit", as it was new, and designed to allow the swimmer to move faster due to reduced resistance from the water.

So in the big scheme of things I doubt genetic enhancement would be the death of sport, but merely open up whole new avenues, and permit even more amazing tests of skill, endurance and feats. It is the way of people, pushing the boundaries. It is possible if one of the original Greek athletes could see the future he would scoff at protein drinks, diets and advanced track suits, but the fact is that sport progresses.

(Although I am looking at it from other angles, not just sport)

Gene enhancement is a waste of money.

I'm all for gen therapy but to cure diseases NOT to enhance a perfectly normal body

I kind of agree. Genetic enhancement could be of major benefit to humanity, thats what interests me, not its applications in sport, but rather to bigger things.

Although I think if it gets to that stage in the future, I still don't have a problem with people eventually using it to be faster or stronger.