Cool so can we edit our genes to express our inner smurf?
The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)
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Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)
#12They don't have a family tree... They have a family ladder . Wow.
Other than the one person marrying their aunt, the closest connection I can see is a second cousin marrying, something I believe is legal, healthy, and very common in that period. I'd bet portions of your family tree from two hundred years ago would look similar.
That tree's focused on only one person, Ben Stacy; his ancestors. The entire tree sounds a lot more connected:
> However, by the early 1960s, some members of the Fugate clan had begun to resent their cobalt-tinted skin. Not only did their skin mark them as different, but by that time, people had already begun to associate their skin color with the family’s history of inbreeding.
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)
#13Not to be insensitive, but it would have been interesting if they had a member of the family play an Andorian in Star Trek. Think about it.
Or Kree in MCU!
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#14The discovery of the treatment in the methylene blue dye is quite fascinating. How exactly did someone figure that out for such a rare condition? And imagine being deep blue all your life and everyone knowing you as blue, then you take this blue pill and bam, you're pink as can be. Must have seemed like practical magic.
It's a known cure for Methemoglobinemia: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000562.htm
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)
#15Some people get blue skin after exposure to colloidal silver.
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)
#16Cool so can we edit our genes to express our inner smurf?
You don't need gene editing, a bit of Nitrobenzene will do: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33510533/
Note: do not do this!
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)
#17They don't have a family tree... They have a family ladder . Wow.
Other than the one person marrying their aunt, the closest connection I can see is a second cousin marrying, something I believe is legal, healthy, and very common in that period. I'd bet portions of your family tree from two hundred years ago would look similar.
Mine certainly does. One quarter of my ancestry comes from an area of Lancashire which had three wealthy families -- the Cleggs, the Mercers, and the Taylors. Those three families intermarried almost exclusively from ca. 1400 until ca. 1850.
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#18>Though today Benjy and most of the Fugate family descendants have lost their blue coloring, the tint still comes out in their skin when they are cold or flush with anger.
I wish they had included at least one photograph of this.
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Other than the one person marrying their aunt, the closest connection I can see is a second cousin marrying, something I believe is legal, healthy, and very common in that period. I'd bet portions of your family tree from two hundred years ago would look similar.
That tree's focused on only one person, Ben Stacy; his ancestors. The entire tree sounds a lot more connected: > However, by the early 1960s, some members of the Fugate clan had begun to resent their cobalt-tinted skin. Not only did their skin mark them as different, but by that time, people had already begun to associate their skin color with the family’s history of inbreeding .
I think if any of us had a visual cue showing our familial ties people would also say we had a family history of inbreeding.
Re: The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (2017)
#20The discovery of the treatment in the methylene blue dye is quite fascinating. How exactly did someone figure that out for such a rare condition? And imagine being deep blue all your life and everyone knowing you as blue, then you take this blue pill and bam, you're pink as can be. Must have seemed like practical magic.
> And imagine being deep blue all your life and everyone knowing you as blue, then you take this blue pill and bam, you're pink as can be. Must have seemed like practical magic.
Almost sounds like homeopathy, without the dilution, that actually works.