the history of mutants

[gunblade007]

well i'n not a sciences but i been studying mutations. if you buy the old 80's ninja turtles cartoon on dvd on one of the episodes it takes about their history. ooz was drop to the sawers by shredder. all four turtles get cover all over it. they start growing and become humanoids they want you to think that but ooz is different mutations only happens if you touch something like the turtles were hold by splinter and turn humanoid turtles because splinter was human. and the last thing splinter was touching was rats so he was turn to a rat. now if you watch street sharks you notice the bad guy gets the dna of sharks and gets them a shot and their human body was mixed with sharks dna and became humanoid sharks. there is alot of mutants in tv like the x- men or marvel super heroes. they were born mutants because their atoms. now that's science fiction. mutations doesn't change you to a humanoid and toxic doesn't either. and the atom bomb hit japan he killed people. it didn't mutation them but it took some of their dna's like some of their arms or legs. now a dna can make a new dna but it doesn't gave them a new arm or leg. on dragonball Z piccolo can repair himself if his arm or leg is destoried. would it be neat if humans could do that. so all mutation is all fake. there never be mutants in the world.
-Joe:)

[takematsu]

there never be mutants in the world.

Depends on the definition. There were PLENTY of mutations post-Hiroshima, but most of them were non-viable. I have a cousin with a thalidomide-induced mutation-- one of her arms ends in a teeny, pointy stub just below the elbow (and it's had to not stare when she does acts of dextrous manipulation with it). Most mutations are caused by cosmic rays, but they're never cool like the Fantastic Four-- just tiny changes that might make it easier to survive in a given set of circumstances. In humans, these changes usually don't get tested and passed on (although, sickle-cell anemia as a means of resisting malaria is a good example). In bacteria and virus, the rate of mutation is shocking. Cool, interesting, super-heroic mutations... yeah, not so many of them.

I gave up on X-men comics when the mutations stopped having a down-side. Beast was good-- super agile, but HUGE feet/covered in blue hair(depending on timing). Cyclops also-- keen power blasts, but he has to wear goofy glasses. Then there's... lessee, Gambit (kinetic powers/hunk), Kitty Pride (walks through walls/cute), Jean Grey (psychic/hottie); there's a give/take to the whole mutation thing that's kinda missing.

[Tounian]

Well gunblade007, if you speak of mutation at its root definition, we are all mutants. Mutation is nothing more than change, pure and simple. In a more educated phrasing, its evolution. Evolutionists point out that the word mutation has been given a bad conotation by science fiction, movies, TV, etc etc. That change is done for the adaptation of an organism's environment. Some evolutionists say that it happens once every few million years, some of them say its constantly happening in our DNA, but on such a nano level that it could never be studied. Everything that has ever lived is a mutation, so it would be kind of hard for there to never be mutants in the world, otherwise known of this we all know would exist. And I am much happier with the thought that I "mutated" from a chimpanzee than I never existed at all.

[Indiana Usagi]

Ah...but I'm sure Uagi was just a normal samurai bunny rabbit who happened to wonder through some radioactive ooze and the last thing he touched was an anthropomorphic black-and-white comic book...but I digress.