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Dr Sam Wilson ([info]machinesrus) wrote in [info]somerealityweb,
@ 2019-07-12 09:43:00

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[Natasha Romanoff]
So I saw what Barton said about you dying and I think maybe I shouldn't have

What exactly did Barton mean about

Look when I got here everything was really fucked up and we were trying to stop the goddamn universe from

You know the thing where sometimes there's something so huge and oppressive that you just [...] can't really deal with it don't know what to do about it so instead you get really pissed at the guy kicking puppies... even though he's not actually kicking puppies, it just looks like it. This metaphor's getting away from me a bit. The point is everyone from your world seems to actually be that [...] soft and squishy Everyone from your world is so fucking adorable.
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Cute card, mini Cap.

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[info]thenextavenger
2019-07-12 09:06 am UTC (link)
[...] It's what?

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[info]machinesrus
2019-07-12 09:19 am UTC (link)
Epigenetic? Basically people used to think that your genetics were set and anything that happened to you later in life wasn't going to have any effect on any offspring you had. If you lose a hand, your children are still going to be born with two hands, you know? Except it's actually more that your genetics are a combination of switches that are set in certain positions to start with but can be changed by environmental factors. Good for survival - a mouse living in an area with a lot of snakes tends to have offspring that are smaller and faster than one that isn't, people who are malnourished have children with metabolisms that hoard any resources they can get so they're more likely to be overweight. Most medical research is on epigenetic changes caused by lifestyle and environmental factors that cause illness, but there's plenty of evidence that sometimes illness can cause epigenetic changes as well. Just not necessarily any of what he had.

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[info]thenextavenger
2019-07-12 09:22 am UTC (link)
Oh okay, so if I hadn't trained for ever thirteen years and didn't live in an apocalypse where food's scarce, I would fat.

Cool, I guess.

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[info]machinesrus
2019-07-12 09:30 am UTC (link)
Not necessarily. There's a lot of factors like which parent it was with which background - female mammals tend to be born with all the eggs they'll ever produce but male humans continue making sperm throughout their lives - what kind of food you eat, whether those genes or those changes are even the ones that get passed down, things like that. There are a lot of conditions that run in families but it doesn't mean that everyone in the family will get them. It really confused scientists before epigenetics became widely known.

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[info]thenextavenger
2019-07-12 09:31 am UTC (link)
So you don't know why I'm not tall.

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[info]machinesrus
2019-07-12 09:35 am UTC (link)
I mean, I know why you're not not tall. It's definitely not because your dad had asthma.

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[info]thenextavenger
2019-07-12 09:49 am UTC (link)
I didn't even know he had asthma.

That didn't come up in the stories Tony told us about him.

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[info]machinesrus
2019-07-12 09:56 am UTC (link)
That was before the serum, Tony wasn't even born yet. Basically anyone who studies biomedical research gets spoonfed the declassified files, the government's so obsessed with replicating it they give extra funding to universities that assign it so they can hand pick anyone who seems promising to work on the real thing.

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[info]thenextavenger
2019-07-12 09:58 am UTC (link)
Oh. I guess it's a good thing there's no government after all.

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[info]machinesrus
2019-07-12 10:00 am UTC (link)
Sometimes that's even worse.

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[info]thenextavenger
2019-07-12 10:01 am UTC (link)
It can. But we're not gonna talk about that.

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