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0 pointsgadders11y ago0 comments

Two people that have had surgery to look beautiful are going to marry, fall in love and start a family. And then be really surprised when their baby comes out fugly.

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jahnu11y ago

There is a great urban legend based on that premise that regularly catches out the media.

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/uglybaby.asp

001sky11y ago

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223718/Chinese-man-...

Chinese man sues his wife for being ugly, and the court AGREES... awarding him £75,000

- Jian Feng was confused after his wife gave birth to an 'incredibly ugly' baby

- He accused her of cheating and she admitted to spending £62,000 on plastic surgery

- He then claimed she got him to marry her under false pretenses

(26 October 2012)

beachstartup11y ago

http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/05/17/thinking-about-plastic...

CmonDev11y ago

He meant genetic engineering of adults. Inheritable.

csours11y ago

Adult genetic engineering would not be inheritable. Your gonads produce variations of genetic material based on their own blueprints (which come from you parents, not your genes).

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germline

http://www.nature.com/news/a-slippery-slope-to-human-germlin...

http://www.dnapolicy.org/pub.reports.php?action=detail&repor...

natrius11y ago

What.

Aardwolf11y ago

How would you genetically engineer an adult, or anyone who is born? It would require changing the DNA of all cells, as well as executing those changes.

nostrademons11y ago

And not having the immune system reject all the changes as soon as its own DNA starts changing.

It has the same problem as upgrading a distributed system that checksums all incoming protocols against its own binary. As soon as the binary changes, everything else gets rejected, and the system grinds to a halt.

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