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The story is that science has been mucking around with this idea for over 50 years. What would you have a human with crazy strength and athletic abilities? Could we have someone who has anger issues with near super human strength? Would we have someone who is immune to some type of cancers or can handle extreme environments could we have already created such a person and are keeping it secret?
There are also moral questions about this type of experimentation and what are the long term implications. Try to avoid making planet of the apes remarks.
http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/its-time-to-make-human_chimp-hybrids
"The year 2018 is the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, subtitled the modern Prometheus. Haven’t we learned that Promethean hubris leads only to disaster, as did the efforts of the fictional Dr. Frankenstein? But there are also other disasters, currently ongoing, such as the grotesque abuse of nonhuman animals, facilitated by what might well be the most hurtful theologically-driven myth of all times: that human beings are discontinuous from the rest of the natural world, since we were specially created and endowed with souls, whereas “they”—all other creatures—were not."
There are also moral questions about this type of experimentation and what are the long term implications. Try to avoid making planet of the apes remarks.
http://nautil.us/issue/58/self/its-time-to-make-human_chimp-hybrids
"The year 2018 is the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, subtitled the modern Prometheus. Haven’t we learned that Promethean hubris leads only to disaster, as did the efforts of the fictional Dr. Frankenstein? But there are also other disasters, currently ongoing, such as the grotesque abuse of nonhuman animals, facilitated by what might well be the most hurtful theologically-driven myth of all times: that human beings are discontinuous from the rest of the natural world, since we were specially created and endowed with souls, whereas “they”—all other creatures—were not."
