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Predictions For The Ars - Benilde College of Arts

The document argues against the plausibility of Spiderman's abilities, specifically his ability to cling to walls through radiation-induced genetic mutations. It highlights that such mutations would require simultaneous changes in all cells before conception, which is highly improbable. Additionally, it explains that radiation typically either kills cells or causes cancer by deactivating self-destruct genes.

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Predictions For The Ars - Benilde College of Arts

The document argues against the plausibility of Spiderman's abilities, specifically his ability to cling to walls through radiation-induced genetic mutations. It highlights that such mutations would require simultaneous changes in all cells before conception, which is highly improbable. Additionally, it explains that radiation typically either kills cells or causes cancer by deactivating self-destruct genes.

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Absolutely 

NOT!

How to explain this. Ok, let’s take Spiderman. He has the ability to cling to walls like a
spider. A real spider does this by having a strong but light-weight body and velcro-like
fibers on its tentacles. Well, leave aside for a second that Spiderman doesn’t have these
fibers on his hands and feet, wears gloves, and doesn’t have a light-weight body. Just being
able to grow fibers from his hands through radiation is impossible. Not only would the
radiation have to create several well-placed mutations into genetic code, but it would have
to do it to all cells simultaneously, and before a person is even conceived. The odds of that
happening are mind-blowingly huge.

Radiation does only two things to cells rather predictably.

1. Kill them
2. Deactivate the self-destruct gene in a single cell that then goes on a growing
rampage (cancer).

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