Paul should have prefaced that with "on this Earth", because there are more intelligent living humans on other Earths.
That may have been his complaint too. That's how I saw it.
Fairly rationally - really. We have no way of knowing the full extent of any genetic change. All genetic engineering right now is very similar to Voodoo programming. We can randomly change any bit of the code/ genome (look up CRISPR) we want, but it's written in what is basically machine language (1s and 0s vs As Cs Gs and Ts) - and we have no known way of making an interpreter/ high level language. We're trying to change code with no idea what any of it really does. So we can tell some of what changing a base does just based on how the code runs, but we have no idea what the full effects will be. For a very basic example, some animals when domesticated (by random mutations/ breeding) are no longer fertile. If we start mucking around with human genetic engineering we have no real way of knowing what the full long term effects on an individual may be. We might introduce new genetic disorders, or cause hormonal imbalances. And it's not as simple as picking and choosing genes from a specific person on record either. Some genes are only lethal in combination with each other. We could be trying to give someone blonde hair and give them Deuchenne Muscular distrophy or some other disease that leads to birth defects instead. It's going to take a lot of work before human genetic engineering is in any way reliable, and it might never be fully predictable.
He's not living on Earth? And he kind of is? Luthor by himself can at best rival him.
Back in the golden age that was true. Except when it wasn't. More recently, the duration of the depowerment depended on the duration of exposure. I remember a comic where Supergirl got exposed and had to duck behind a chest-high wall for thirty seconds or so until her powers came back.
Because we can't change a full adult's entire genome. We can change the genes for a specific cell- and then have that cell grow into multiple ones. So we can change a particular tissue or something, but some of the old cells will still be there - we will have a specific section of the body partially modified in a specific way, but not completely - the surrounding cells will still function the same way. So we can theoretically have some cells that secrete specific chemicals, but they will be mixed with cells that don't. It will also take some time for the cell to grow into something bigger - part of the reason we can modify fish or small animals is that their cells replicate fairly quickly. But even then, the best we can do is give them a patch of tissue with a slightly different function - most of the body's cells - and even the tissue's cells - are still the same as they were before. Also, once a change is in place, we can't completely reverse it without getting rid of all the affected cells. The only way to do this is the same way we usually get rid of cancer - cut it out/ extensive chemotherapy to kill the entire affected area. We can't just fix it in the next generation if the problem is affecting the current one and it's been literally thousands of generations. The cell has grown and potentially become cancerous / toxic in some other way.
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If by 'hung up on' you mean 'when the captured German atomic scientists were shown a (presumably rather redacted) version of the Manhattan Project's progress they univerally insisted it was propaganda becuase they believed it was actually impossible to do it that way' then yes, yes they did.
Likewise. If Paul hadn't suggested they take their immediate leave there would have been a Full Mad Scientist RANT coming on about how the Nazis don't know anything about SCIENCE!
It was on one of the omake lists. Which are linked in the first post in this thread and have been since this thread started.
Probably not, but I suppose it could happen.
So basically everyone who got pulled with operation paperclip?
And whatever the Russian equivalent was.
Panacidal? Ultracidal? Infinicidal?
My god, that's one sentence.
Which one? Hitler 16 touched it about once, but it was Wolf Krieger 16 who used it. Hitler 10 never bothered with that sort of thing.
Yes.
No, it already exists.
They're called Controllers. They don't like unreliable weapons.
Yes.
A combination of magic and psychological conditioning could do it now, though they might not consider it desirable themselves.