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Cicada

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13. Spoiler Watchmen. Only today I learned about Dr Manhattan

Reply to Duppers (Reply #12)

Mon Dec 9, 2019, 04:56 AM

Dec 2019

HBO show the Watchmen is my favorite TV show. My wife doesn’t get into it though. A character in the show, Dr Manhattan, has god like powers, such as the ability to create species with a wave of his hand. My comment Welcome Dr Manhattan was written right after I watched the episode which revealed this. I found it exhilarating. My wife found it stupid and adolescent.

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Harvard geneticist goal: to protect humans from viruses, genetic diseases, aging [View all] Duppers Dec 2019 OP

We already have too many people. RandySF Dec 2019 #1

That is why the rich right wingers don't want good healthcare for most applegrove Dec 2019 #7

Wait for the Christofascists to declare he is Duppers Dec 2019 #2

It would certainly push us to extinction. RandySF Dec 2019 #3

Watch or read about this. Duppers Dec 2019 #5

Part of Ray Kurzweil's prediction of the approaching 'singularity', that being where human lifespan triron Dec 2019 #4

I remember Church saying he would eliminate natural death if he got time Cicada Dec 2019 #6

I have friends currently dying of cancer. Duppers Dec 2019 #8

evolved? call me when the kardashians disappear. pansypoo53219 Dec 2019 #9

Right, but culture is always a subset of species. greyl Dec 2019 #11

Sure. Homo Sapiens will soon be replaced by Homo Crspr. Literally. Cicada Dec 2019 #10

Dr. Manhattan - sorry, not familiar... Duppers Dec 2019 #12

Spoiler Watchmen. Only today I learned about Dr Manhattan Cicada Dec 2019 #13

viruses and other pathogens are drivers for evolution. harumph Dec 2019 #14