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Is it possible to radiate people into supermen?

By Lu DaPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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The Japanese/American science fiction movie "Godzilla", has a similar plot. France did nuclear explosion experiments on a certain island, the lizard was irradiated by nuclear radiation, and genetic mutation and the size of the files nail increasingly large, becoming a hundred meters tall monster. This is the source of Godzilla.

There are also monster movies that talk about insects being turned into giant insect monsters by nuclear radiation and attacking humans like crazy, turning whole cities into insect nests. In some science fiction films, insects have evolved as large as skyscrapers.

Of course, these are the artistic imagination of science fiction writers and directors, and it is unlikely that these mutations will occur in the real world.

There is a breeding method called mutation breeding, the principle of which is to produce genetic mutations through radiation, followed by the emergence of new traits. Some of the space vegetables seen at the agricultural fair is relying on mutagens breeding through multiple screenings to breed new varieties.

What about people? And then accept the space environment after the baptism will not be mutated?

No, so far many space pilots who have been to space, without exception, are still normal people.

Mutations are not directional, and one of the characteristics of mutation breeding is that there is little favorable variation, and a large amount of test material needs to be processed to obtain trait-stable offspring. Breeding methods like space breeding, which may sound shocking, are very backward and costly methods.

Nuclear weapons explosion will produce strong early nuclear radiation, if you are not eliminated by the two killing effects of shock waves and light radiation because of obstacles or distance, in a short period after being exposed to more than 1 Gorey dose of such neutron and gamma radiation, will also occur acute radiation sickness, basically no way to live.

Moreover, this radiation and shock waves and light radiation occur only a very slight difference in time, and the intensity increases with the distance decay quickly, you want to enjoy with an intact body may not have the opportunity, it is likely to be either torn into pieces by shock waves or by right radiation scorched.

Nuclear science research does use radioactive isotopes to irradiate crop seeds in minute amounts to make changes in their yield and other characteristics.

Around the Chornobyl nuclear accident site in Ukraine, there are also some plants and animals that did not die but grew surprisingly large due to different doses of radiation.

But none of this is proof that radiation can induce beneficial reactions in organisms and only beneficial consequences.

Protein is a combination of amino acids into a giant organic molecule, according to different amino acid pairing combinations of protein will appear in different states, such as our muscle protein and nail keratin, and then such as our eye droppings boogers are actually proteins, and even more ricing, snake venom, spider silk, turtle nails are also proteins ......

If the proteins in the human body are ionized and reorganized to form a new, orderly, self-consistent active organism, then Superman would be blown up by a nuclear explosion. It is possible that all the muscle fibers in the body of this "Superman" are transformed into a silk protein tissue similar to spider silk while maintaining their original functionality, and it would be difficult to harm "Superman" with ordinary guns.

But what are the odds of this? The human body has 3 billion DNA base pairs, while the body has about 6 billion cells, so the human cells have about 180 billion DNA base pairs with the number of proteins this number has to be doubled 100 billion times. Then the probability of success we can see is 1/1800000 billion billion billion.

If you want to genetically modify people, medical science certainly will not use nuclear radiation. The per-implantation genetic diagnosis that has been in the clinic for a long time now will allow partial screening of genes before the transfer, with the right ones staying and the unsuitable ones being eliminated.

Perhaps shortly, the transfer of a favorable gene to an embryo or the knockout of an unfavorable gene will also go clinical. In that case, human beings will be the equivalent of creating superheroes in some aspect or another in the hospital.

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