[Tribune7]

Can we all be Spiderman? Injecting this gene being devised at Penn can supposedly make you 60 percent stronger.

I hardly ever read the Inquirer anymore but I caught this story.

[stainlessbanner]

60 percent, and he was able to carry three times his weight.

Great, now the ESPN Stong Man Contests are gonna have to buy 3 more of everything!

[Physicist]

The potential here is for a widespread, wholesale improvement in the human condition, but all the reporter can do is wring his hands over whether this will affect sports.

Is it possible to be more shortsighted?

[Physicist]

Ping. I wonder what this might mean for muscular dystrophy.

[anymouse]

If this has the same effect in humans, expect the DoD to slap a classified label on it and consider it a munitions technology, embargoed from being exported.

Imagine our troops using this. Worse yet, imagine our enemies troops using this, while nanny staters here ban its use.

Pro sports could get really ugly when the average player can do leathal damage without even trying.

[Interesting Times]

This would appear to explain Darrell Green...