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What does it have with skin color? Just limit the sun for two or three days until you tan, no sunburns after that. It's not like Thais are black. Compare: http
by duckingtest 10y ago
What does it have with skin color? Just limit the sun for two or three days until you tan, no sunburns after that. It's not like Thais are black. Compare:
https://pixabay.com/p-199674/?no_redirect https://pixabay.com/p-199674/?no_redirect
https://tonycavanagh.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/5005.jpg https://tonycavanagh.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/5005.jpg
Hardly a big difference.
For genetic modification, the best solution is to increase range of tanning rather than changing the constant. It's already possible to get black skin [0] with eg. melanotan-2, so it's not that big of a change.
[0] http://imgur.com/a/I428E http://imgur.com/a/I428E
- yummyfajitas 10y agoPerhaps I can chemically supplement myself to have the same powers that my African and Indian friends are born with. Why wouldn't I want my children to be born with that power? Similarly, I'd like them to be born intelligent and naturally athletic.
- duckingtest 10y agoPower to be D3 deficient? [0] Do you have some inferiority complex? It's objectively better to have white skin that can tan instead of a darker one. It's always possible to cover from the sun. Only disadvantage: in sunny climates, ~4x higher risk of skin cancer, but the absolute risk is still a minuscule ~25/100k. "It is evident that as much as 69%-82% of the South Asian populations in India had 25(OH)D levels in plasma less than the minimum acceptable levels of 20 ng/ml" Skin colors evolved when most people were outside for the entire day. Now the opposite is true. [0] http://www.pjms.com.pk/issues/octdec208/article/reviewarticle1.html http://www.pjms.com.pk/issues/octdec208/article/reviewarticl...
- euyyn 10y ago> until you tan Not all of us have your superpower :) I've managed to tan 1/32 of my summers.