Well, sounds like you've got nothing to lose really
I should however note that most mutations end badly.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:20, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

No they don't
most mutations end with nothing at all.
/scientist
(berk, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:21, Reply)

I thought most ended up developing into tumours and other bad shit?
edits: That one cats can have where it looks like they grow wings looks pretty cool though.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:23, Reply)

I flicked through a rubbish magazine
once. Take a Break or something. In it there was a woman who was magnetic and attracted small pieces of metal. When she was upset and stressed it got worse and tills/lights/electric doors would stop functioning around her
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:26, Reply)

That's nothing short of awesome

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:29, Reply)

I know there's a family somewhere
that emit some sort of weird radiation that fucks up electrical stuff, similarly when they get stressed, lights flicker and things turn off and on and stuff. Might be bollocks, mind...
(berk, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:32, Reply)

yeah
it was quite interesting to read.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:34, Reply)

No.
Mutations are neither good nor bad. Generally they're just a one or two nucleotide change which don't DO anything - just a typo if you will. However depending on where that typo is, depends on what happens. If it's in the middle of an important gene which regulates cell fate (ie, an oncogene such as p53 or BRCA1) then that spelling mistake can mean that the gene no longer fulfills its function and the cell doesn't die, it divides rapidly, accumulating more mutations. That's what cancer is - a mass of cells which don't die as they ought and which have the ability to pick themselves up and wander all over your body causing trouble.
Given that the large majority of your genome is junk, however... most mutations happen in great swathes of stuff that doesn't matter and therefore have no effect whatsoever.
(berk, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:31, Reply)

Well I've learned something tonight
Also, how can Amberl make herself magnetic?
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:34, Reply)

I don't know
I shall have a think about it...
(berk, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:39, Reply)

ear/nipple piercings
fill piercings with powerful magnets. job done.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:48, Reply)

Well the skeleton is calcium
calcium is a metal. Metal can be made magnetic if you wang a big enough charge through it, I think. Probably wouldn't be massively good for you though...
(berk, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:54, Reply)

it sounds like rather a drastic solution

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:58, Reply)

plus uncontrollable

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 22:59, Reply)

I have all manner of piercings.
Please do not magnetism me.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 26 Nov 2010, 23:04, Reply)