Timeline for Could Dr Manhattan have cured Janey's cancer?
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| Apr 22, 2018 at 21:16 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Apr 22, 2018 at 15:12 | answer | added | dcoco | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 20:54 | comment | added | Afrog Nuñes | I was writing a question about why Dr. Manhattan killed Rorschach instead of justing brainwashing him to remove the knowledge of Veidt's plan, but any answer to this question is an answer to my question. | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 22:23 | comment | added | Ed Swangren | @RBarryYoung: I know you keep touting the 'skill v power' thing, but it's just silly. We're talking about an all knowing, all powerful, fictional character. And BTW, it is (relatively) easy to tell a cancerous cell from a healthy cell. Source: I'm an engineer in bio-tech, specializing in digital microscopy and computer vision with applications in cancer diagnostics. If I can figure it out, I'm pretty sure a god can. | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 16:47 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | @EdS. I already assumed he could see the cells. Whats ridiculous here is the assumption that seeing the cells is the same thing as knowing whether they are cancerous. If it was, any kid with a microscope could be an Oncologist. Again, a Power (ability to see microscopic cells, ability to remove single cells) is not the same thing as a Skill (ability to tell cancerous cells from normal, knowing how to replace/repair removed cells/tissue). And "putting himself back together" is not the same because 1) he's not human, or necessarily even living, and 2) he could just copy it. | |
| Feb 24, 2016 at 5:23 | comment | added | Ed Swangren | @RBarryYoung: He has put himself back together after being vaporized. You're placing ridiculous restrictions on an omnipotent being. I mean, really; he can't 'see' the cells? As if vision as we know it is how a being who can control time and space 'sees' the universe? C'mon. He can do whatever the writers feel like because he is bound by nothing. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 21:28 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | @EdS. No, I think that you are grossly underestimating the complexity of the task. Even assuming that Dr. Manhattan can see microscopically, and has the time to sort through quadrillions of cells, how does he know which ones are cancerous? Oncologists have years of training to tell the difference, and even then, they can only identify which ones are manifesting, they cannot tell which ones are latent, dormant or incipient. They rely on proximity and luck for surgery. Plus they know how to repair damage done by what they've removed: it's a skill not a power. | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 6:10 | comment | added | Ed Swangren | @RBarryYoung: He could literally remove every cancerous cell from her body. I think you're slightly underestimating someone who can control time, space, and matter. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 19:14 | history | edited | user31178 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2014 at 22:40 | vote | accept | Averroes | ||
| Mar 31, 2014 at 12:38 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | I think a major question is whether he can, in fact, make life. From his deterministic perspective, it's easy, but my suspicion is that all that he'll be able to create is robots. Possibly biological robots, but still automatons that do little more than follow the algorithms he encodes. | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 22:48 | comment | added | Averroes | Not a valid example IMHO. He already is showing awesome (in awe meaning) powers and feats or is it that removing cells is more difficult than being able to teleport someone to Mars or just blow up Rorschach? Also what about his words about create life? | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 22:09 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | Not really. I can copy an article from the New Yorker or even Fax it to someone, that doesn't mean that I'm qualified to write such an article or even edit it. | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 20:06 | comment | added | Averroes | @RBarryYoung More or less as difficult as reintegrate himself after being disintegrated or teleport a lot of people to their houses. I think eliminating cancerous cells would be a feat he can accomplish taking into account his other powers. | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 18:39 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | Cancer Surgery is not a power, it's a skill and a difficult one to acquire at that. Dr. Manahattan's skills were in physics, not medicine. And there's nothing in the comics that gives any suggestion that Dr. Manhattan's powers would have given him any advantage over a surgeon's tools. | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 16:38 | answer | added | joshbirk | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 13:45 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2014 at 12:43 | answer | added | Jeff | timeline score: 60 | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 10:44 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 4:56 | answer | added | FuzzyBoots | timeline score: 22 | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 1:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/450089952236544002 | ||
| Mar 30, 2014 at 1:48 | history | asked | Averroes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |