This is in reference to some trans issue, but it explains a lot about why he's so smug about his physical condition: he literally believes in our lifetimes we're going to be able to reconfigure ourselves down to the atomic level. Bob fails at understanding science yet again.
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You know, I never gave much credence to that guy who claimed Bob believed he had psychic powers, but I'm wondering if I should reassess that. This is delusional even beyond his usual standards.
"We're on the scientific verge of being able to rewrite the rules of our bodies, minds, and the entire physical world from the atom up"?
Where to even begin?
First of all, what's this "we"? As in, what makes him think that anyone wants to share this wondrous power with
him?
He certainly isn't going to be one of the STEM people who are actually contributing anything to making this alleged new power. Giving this kind of power to humanity at large would be absolutely certain to bring about some kind of apocalypse at the hands of religious fanatics, political fanatics, some seething resentful misanthrope, or even just some awful fetishist who wants to turn all humanity into mindless furry sex slaves or something.
Bob himself is exactly the kind of person who would usher in this apocalypse if given this power. There are literally
convicted child molesters who would be safer to give this power to than him. (The child molesters would turn themselves into kids and have sex with each other, while Bob would try to murder whole classes of people for the crime of disagreeing with him.) In any case new technology is very expensive, and Bob certainly can't afford it on his basement dweller "salary".
But a bigger obstacle to Bob getting this power is that
it isn't going to actually exist, or at least not until long after Bob is dead. Even if we had atomic-level control of the physical world right now, we literally wouldn't know what to do with it. We can't even engineer something like our current bodies yet, let alone something better. We don't even understand everything that goes on inside
bacteria let alone ourselves. We won't be re-engineering the entire physical world any time soon. That's assuming that mass-scale atomic-level control of matter is even possible to begin with, and there are some good arguments why it isn't. This is absolute nonsense. It's religious faith not science. It's the Rapture of the Nerds.
