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@chuckebbs7541
September 15, 2026 at 5:01 pm
superhumans exist lol
@AntonioTylerDraws
September 15, 2026 at 5:13 pm
Like what
@DDAngel1
September 15, 2026 at 5:07 pm
Глупый вопрос!! 😂
@AntonioTylerDraws
September 15, 2026 at 5:12 pm
Also, every mutation that seems to be cool has a horrible side effect. I think about the people that can’t feel pain or have photographic memory. These sound cool but you can’t tell when your bone has broken or your appendix has burst. And true photographic memory means you remember and experience *_everything_* like it just happened, including trauma.
@samw161
September 15, 2026 at 5:52 pm
yeah i was thinking of the closest thing we have to a superpower was the condition where you can’t feel pain
@justafan5269
September 15, 2026 at 6:03 pm
exactly. The systems we have in place are there for a reason.
@lunchbox1553
September 15, 2026 at 6:11 pm
@justafan5269 And the reason was: because
@alexbosse8528
September 15, 2026 at 6:34 pm
Yeah, the condition where you feel no pain is actually horrifying and those poor folks usually die very young.
@bryanterrill7674
September 15, 2026 at 6:58 pm
@lunchbox1553it’s because that’s why
@jasonbaldwin4580
September 15, 2026 at 5:15 pm
A mutation can duplicate an existing structure. 6 fingers is a dominant trait and thus would appear within 1 generation. Or degrade an existing gene. Blue eye is a recessive trait and would take several generations (without direct inbreeding) to appear.
@CatoAlpharius
September 15, 2026 at 5:18 pm
Congenital Insensitivity to Pain is a genetic disorder? Myostatin-related Muscle Hypertrophy? Tetrachromy?
These are all genetic disorders that allow a small subset of humans to do extraordinary feats. We’re certainly aren’t comic books, but we are amazing.
@SusanMorgan-k5p
September 15, 2026 at 5:24 pm
This feels unique in a good way, I like it ……
@Starmadien2019
September 15, 2026 at 5:25 pm
I have a superpower! I’m allergic to gluten! I get the power of being stupidly sick if I eat bread.
@JasonW1220
September 15, 2026 at 5:36 pm
I do absolutely believe that in this world of governments fight governments, and cabals fighting cabals, that there ARE genetic experiments going on. I’m sure they’ve been going on for a long time. There HAS to be. We cloned a sheep in the early 90s ffs. I’m sure that the same people that belong to the same institution that were torturing their own prisoners, prostitutes, and the mentally ill, on psychedelics, would be willing to.
I don’t believe in some dude with claws and super healing, but I’m SURE that someone, somewhere, is at least TRYING to make super soldiers and super thinkers.
@VincentMcmanus.
September 15, 2026 at 5:37 pm
I think it would be more accurate for him to put an asterisk next to everything he’s saying. All of this is based on our CURRENT understanding of genetic modification and replication or mutated traits.
He cannot say what might be possible in the future.
I mean, think about this, it was only around 105 years ago that insulin was discovered to help diabetics. Prior to that, diabetes was basically a death sentence, particularly with type 1.
Sure, that’s not at all the same as genetic modification by any means – that’s a fair thing to say. But it does demonstrate how quickly we’re developing our understanding and new techniques of medical care.
I mean, around 80 years ago, lobotomies were being performed to treat schizophrenia – these days? We have medications, pills.
@Belladonna-x2c
September 15, 2026 at 5:41 pm
That covers X-Men style mutants. But Spider-Man is not a mutant (born that way, per Lady Gaga) but a mutate (a normative human who underwent some specific alteration). Mutates are not comparable to natural mutation and evolution, so much as intentional retroviral modification of the genome.
@MrFateorfaith
September 15, 2026 at 5:41 pm
But it could be engineered
@Magicbubbles2000
September 15, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Oddly enough there are human mutants we’ve documented that are also XMen, such as the woman with toxic blood or the man who’s stomach could consume metal.
@rega5950
September 15, 2026 at 5:45 pm
what about the water ape theory?
@AFLoneWolf
September 15, 2026 at 5:52 pm
So truncated equilibrium was wrong?
@Broken9Arrow
September 15, 2026 at 5:57 pm
So that guy that sold me glowing goo out of his van lied to me. That explains the loss of taste ……
@ChrisM-st1pw
September 15, 2026 at 6:09 pm
I used crispr to give me false teeth
@austinwilburn1772
September 15, 2026 at 6:14 pm
I don’t think he asked if it was going to happen, just no matter the odds, is it at least on the table?
@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410
September 15, 2026 at 7:02 pm
No
@Setting_Sunn
September 15, 2026 at 6:30 pm
… just for one day! Bowie forever ❤️👩🎤
@celo7carvalho
September 15, 2026 at 6:35 pm
Wait. That’s why they asked about mutations, not long term evolution
@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410
September 15, 2026 at 6:59 pm
what do you think evolution is? Accumulated mutations
If you mean fantastical mutations like in comic books and movies, then obviously the answer is a hard no. That’s _fantastical_ for a reason, it doesn’t exist.
Actual mutations occur like he just described
@celo7carvalho
September 15, 2026 at 7:02 pm
@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410I know the definitions. I’m saying that they asked X and he answered Y. As many people pointed out there have been some documented cases of mutations that closely resemble some effects of comic book mutations
@The-Amazin-Nath
September 15, 2026 at 6:48 pm
This Is exactly what a Mutant trying to hide their Superpowers would say 🤔
@mz-pd5hw
September 15, 2026 at 7:03 pm
big sudden genetic mutations produce nothing or cancer, not wings or x-ray vision
@chainsawkarate
September 15, 2026 at 7:13 pm
Well not with THAT attitude
@KcFinex
September 15, 2026 at 8:21 pm
I have 5 superhuman abilities:
● I’ve regrown teeth after the 2nd set came in.
● I can easily mentally control my heart rates.
● I can change the focus of each eye individually (though it is uncomfortable).
● I can hear conversations across the park, and even electricity in the walls and appliances.
● I can imagine so fiercely that I can “see” the image and overlay it onto the paper I am drawing on and trace my imagination.
2 were practiced, 3 were genetic.
Not an X-man, but still pretty cool.
@24Ippo
September 15, 2026 at 9:05 pm
X-Men mutants are basically anomalies not evolution.
@notavailable5216
September 15, 2026 at 9:21 pm
It depends on your definition of “superhuman abilities”. Some people naturally have a 4th cone type that allows them to see colors indistinguishable to everyone else
@anna_in_aotearoa3166
September 15, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Yeah, this is what I was thinking too! We already have Inuit whose tendency to lay down more brown fat allows them to survive insane cold, Tibetans with immune-system adaptations which allow them to survive high altitudes, athletes who have significantly more short-twitch muscle fibers, people with eidetic memories and full childhood recall…. The list goes on and on! Humans are a pretty incredible biological critter, for all our sociopolitical faults…
@geewilikers9780
September 15, 2026 at 10:55 pm
To add to that, –and this has less impact in a world where PEDs are pretty freely available– but a mutation to some muscle protien related gene could cause what would appear to be ‘super human strength’ for people of yesteryear. Or, like Andre the Giant. yeaaa. Anyway. I agree- depends on your definition. Laser eyes? No. 4th cone eyes? yea.
@brqxton8974
September 16, 2026 at 2:05 am
They can’t “see colors we cannot” they split the same exact colors that we see into 4 different base colors; the same way ours split into 3. It makes the exact same image in the end. This is also true for mantis shrimp, which have 12 cones but also only see the regular color spectrum.
@geewilikers9780
September 16, 2026 at 2:56 pm
@brq@brqxton8974te to be contradictory but ultraviolet is the other color band iirc, and that’s definitely colors we can’t see.
@te1858
September 15, 2026 at 10:41 pm
I’m pretty sure any [human] genetic trait/ability can’t be ‘super’-human, by definition. Like, if it is a human trait – then it isn’t ‘super-human’.
@belaytriks
September 15, 2026 at 11:07 pm
Mutant here, my super power is to tolerate lactose as an adult. Not impressive but surelly tasty, I can drink whole milk and its derivates without problems. 😊
@Fandelgore
September 16, 2026 at 12:05 am
Does the question imply immediacy though? If not then it could happen no?
@Blackopsspartn
September 16, 2026 at 12:15 am
Me at 25: Yeah but my special mutation that’ll improve my life will kick in…..any day now
@MsStalker97
September 16, 2026 at 1:07 am
How about we ask the other way around which conditions are needed to let us mutate or evolve more smart like getting very very good at solving komplex systems or life/off-spring threatening danger of komplex Problem shape
Also what could occur when we solve aging and need for metabolic activity
@primalnecessity
September 16, 2026 at 1:59 am
It doesn’t always take that long. Look at elephants, it’s only taken decades for them to not grow trunks. The ones that don’t have trunks don’t get poached and have a better chance for reproducing.
@diapadevourer
September 16, 2026 at 4:32 am
Not evolution, speciation
@2egenjerry
September 16, 2026 at 2:59 am
Add radioactive animal bites 😂
@pippa3150
September 16, 2026 at 4:11 am
Oh and all the righties are having a cow right now. Lol
@sleazyschlock4153
September 16, 2026 at 5:31 am
the only possible super power for humans as of today is becoming genius high IQ
@flavialm1
September 16, 2026 at 5:57 am
What about that kid that had a mutation in the eye that gave him the ability to see in the dark?
@mklinger23
September 16, 2026 at 7:43 am
The closest thing I have heard of is using rabbit DNA to regrow tissue. Rabbits naturally produce retinoic acid which promotes the growth of new cells. So if you cut their ear off, they will just grow it back. Someone used the retinoic acid in mice (who can’t regrow tissue) and when they cut the mouse’s ear and injected retinoic acid, they grew it back. All tissue including nerves.
I don’t think this will be “superhuman”, but would be great for a lot of injuries and especially nerve damage.
@moef.662
September 16, 2026 at 8:19 am
I appreciate the explanation but I think he has the mutation of moving his whole body a lot while talking which is distracting.
@limarien
September 16, 2026 at 8:45 am
There are people with weird sort of unexplainable abilities and skills but its not gonna be bone claws its liks that one guy who found out he could power lightbulbs by holding them or that blind athlete who learned how to kinda echolocate
@okand26
September 16, 2026 at 8:46 am
Does Human development begin at conception ?
@BillHsiao-n1l
September 16, 2026 at 10:09 am
It’s like how you can’t have a building that suddenly has a giant laser because one architect read the blueprint wrong 😁
@jorisbuster
September 16, 2026 at 10:34 am
there are examples of single mutations making people seem superhuman though, like with myostatin deficiency / MSTN mutation
@thehulk86
September 16, 2026 at 11:18 am
yeah, it’s not just a change in posture between apes and man, the spine attaches to the skull in a totally different place, like a 90 degree change in place on the skull
@Sparkalonius
September 16, 2026 at 12:26 pm
“Mac, do you or do you not believe that you could create a superhuman race of strongmen through genetic mutation and evolution?”
@artificialintelligence0101
September 16, 2026 at 2:48 pm
So you’re saying there’s a chance
@iceman7157
September 16, 2026 at 3:03 pm
I can add. We can be born with mutations both fatal and benign. Nothing too crazy beyond Werewolf Syndrome, Cyclopia, and that one that turns your skin to tree bark.
Furthermore, we ‘can’ mutate later in life. Cancer is a mutation. But beyond that, like if you exposed yourself to radiation, those mutations are often so quick occuring that the brain just send the self delete signal to the body before anything can happen.
@Godrassuxxzz
September 16, 2026 at 3:34 pm
well, i would still love to fly for free and not paying gas
@samlockwood3267
September 16, 2026 at 6:45 pm
I’m sorry monkeys lived in trees for millions of years before “using the ground more”??? How am I just now hearing about this
@thepudgyninja
September 17, 2026 at 1:43 pm
is punctuated equilibrium out as a popular theory?
@N0izyb0i
September 17, 2026 at 3:06 pm
Spiderman also isnt a mutant.
@debaratichaudhuri7
September 17, 2026 at 5:35 pm
So Wolverine seems to indeed be the most famous X-Men. Cool cool.
@chingling8177
September 17, 2026 at 8:43 pm
Question how fast can we actually evolve does anybody know the answer?
@ptuiptooey
September 17, 2026 at 8:49 pm
I must be a genius. No schooling and I already knew this!—well, not at three, just casual reading by the age of twelve (or so I thought).
@justo6953
September 17, 2026 at 9:04 pm
Maby after 350 million years
@AudioPhile
September 18, 2026 at 2:34 am
Genetic “code”..
@anjanisays
September 18, 2026 at 6:58 am
What about super soldiers?
@TommyTokeUp420
September 18, 2026 at 12:56 pm
There’s only one type of organism that evolves at a rapid rate, and that’s viruses.
@remember1ify
September 19, 2026 at 12:11 am
Someone hasn’t seen Stan Lee’s super humans
@bryantbarnhart3631
September 19, 2026 at 7:37 am
What an incredibly dumb question
@ROKHAN-LION
September 19, 2026 at 9:38 pm
There goes my hopes and dreams
@FaustCrowley
September 20, 2026 at 3:39 pm
I think tetrachromacy would count, and I’ve read about a mutation that makes human bones exceptionally strong (though I haven’t researched the validity of that mutation). And occasionally we DO get people who have abilities–certainly a combination of genetic and environmental conditions–such as Newton, Einstein, and at least one (and I’m sorry I don’t remember his name) the Indian mathematician who had no formal training in math but was able to do almost impossible calculations in his head.
@ryanwall1470
September 21, 2026 at 7:10 pm
For now
@babakaashram-gamingchannel1845
September 22, 2026 at 4:11 am
So we need a immortality and time travel😅
Just to give away superhuman powers😊