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Can Superhuman Mutants Be Living Among Us?

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http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/06/can-sup...-among-us/

EXCERPT: After millions of years of evolution, our species has, like an aging rock band, settled into a comfortable, familiar groove: Your classic bipedal, theory-of-mind-having Homo sapien. Then, there is another class of human. This class of human has spectacular powers, such as mind control or the ability to manipulate electromagnetic waves, and exists mostly in big-budget global superhero franchises, like X-Men (or in mid-budget Ben Stiller-starring cult classics from 1999, like Mystery Men).

These characters aren’t generally celebrated for their realism—but are they really so implausible? Is it so hard to believe that, in some late-career burst of creativity, human beings might finally get it together and start evolving some wings, or night vision, or whatever?

For the latest instalment of Giz Asks, we asked evolutionary biologists, academics, and futurists if it is at all possible that people with superhuman abilities are living amongst us, or one day will, and which of these abilities are the most scientifically plausible. They let us know that while mutant-humans probably aren’t evolving alongside us, there are certain scenarios (a move to Mars, say, or wide-scale climate-related devastation) which might about humans with radically different genetics in the distant future. Or, via genetic modification, in the next few months....

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(Jun 6, 2017 03:59 AM)C C Wrote: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/06/can-sup...-among-us/

EXCERPT: After millions of years of evolution, our species has, like an aging rock band, settled into a comfortable, familiar groove: Your classic bipedal, theory-of-mind-having Homo sapien. Then, there is another class of human. This class of human has spectacular powers, such as mind control or the ability to manipulate electromagnetic waves, and exists mostly in big-budget global superhero franchises, like X-Men (or in mid-budget Ben Stiller-starring cult classics from 1999, like Mystery Men).

These characters aren’t generally celebrated for their realism—but are they really so implausible? Is it so hard to believe that, in some late-career burst of creativity, human beings might finally get it together and start evolving some wings, or night vision, or whatever?

For the latest instalment of Giz Asks, we asked evolutionary biologists, academics, and futurists if it is at all possible that people with superhuman abilities are living amongst us, or one day will, and which of these abilities are the most scientifically plausible. They let us know that while mutant-humans probably aren’t evolving alongside us, there are certain scenarios (a move to Mars, say, or wide-scale climate-related devastation) which might about humans with radically different genetics in the distant future. Or, via genetic modification, in the next few months....

MORE: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/06/can-sup...-among-us/

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if magic(magi) were not real how could there be a word for it !
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There was a man named Bill something that had the ability to call down lightning at will. His life was further complicated by other forteana including ufos and monsters. There was an episode of Paranormal Witness that relayed the tale of the young man around whom drops of rain would appear in thin air and hit the ceiling. There were tales of saints communicating with animals and nuns levitating spontaneously.There was the physicist Wolfgang Pauli around whom breakdowns and malfunctions of equipment notoriously occurred. Harriet Tubman was a precog spy that never got caught. And Jason Padgett became a math genius who could literally see equation structures after a head injury.

Given my belief in the supernatural, I have to say I believe the idea of the Superhuman entirely plausible, despite it's rather tropish overplay in comic books and TV series now. The problem is harnessing such largely unconscious powers with one's own willpower and pressing it into the service of good. Hence the secret shadow govt bent on schooling them and training them etc and etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTzW9rMcbzk
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