Melanin is the pigment in our skin and it gives almost complete immunity to skin cancer when you have a lot of it. White people don't have much of it so we either pay attention to that vulnerability or spend a lot of time with dermatologists when we are old. If you don't mind having every square centimeter of your body inspected then maybe that's not so terrible.
Black people hardly ever get skin cancer and I've written an article on it previously so no need to write it again. It's worth remarking since the difference in rates of skin cancer for white people and black people is radically different. 'Radical' is not an exaggeration.
Other than immunity to skin cancer, melanin has a property researchers have only just discovered. Mixed with other products, it may make them stronger. Researchers see this in polyurethane (i.e. foam padding) and believe it may apply further. (Science Daily: Skin pigment could help strengthen foams, fabrics)
Read the article for the detail but the Rockhouse interest is the cosmicity of it.
Ed: is that the same as 'galaxiosity?'
Roger that.
That melanin is a source of strength in multiple dimensions has all the galaxiosity we need. It makes humans immune, almost, to skin cancer and it makes materials stronger as well. Who knows what else they discover this magic compound may confer on things.
Ed: is this turning racial?
Nope as melanin confers on black people the immunity to skin cancer and not too much with white people but that's only luck of the evolutionary draw. Somehow this magic compound brought that to black people and it also brings a strengthening property to other things.
Ed: oh joy, Dr Oz will start saying it cures stuttering
Did Isaac Hayes ever stutter?
Ed: that was racial
Indeed it was but answer the question, dawg. He's got lots of melanin and he sure as hell doesn't stutter.
Ed: Dr Oz will grab this stuff and pitch it as preventing skin cancer for white people and curing their stuttering. Add some alcohol to the mix and he will sell millions.
Bad medicine is always the easiest to sell.
Black people hardly ever get skin cancer and I've written an article on it previously so no need to write it again. It's worth remarking since the difference in rates of skin cancer for white people and black people is radically different. 'Radical' is not an exaggeration.
Other than immunity to skin cancer, melanin has a property researchers have only just discovered. Mixed with other products, it may make them stronger. Researchers see this in polyurethane (i.e. foam padding) and believe it may apply further. (Science Daily: Skin pigment could help strengthen foams, fabrics)
Read the article for the detail but the Rockhouse interest is the cosmicity of it.
Ed: is that the same as 'galaxiosity?'
Roger that.
That melanin is a source of strength in multiple dimensions has all the galaxiosity we need. It makes humans immune, almost, to skin cancer and it makes materials stronger as well. Who knows what else they discover this magic compound may confer on things.
Ed: is this turning racial?
Nope as melanin confers on black people the immunity to skin cancer and not too much with white people but that's only luck of the evolutionary draw. Somehow this magic compound brought that to black people and it also brings a strengthening property to other things.
Ed: oh joy, Dr Oz will start saying it cures stuttering
Did Isaac Hayes ever stutter?
Ed: that was racial
Indeed it was but answer the question, dawg. He's got lots of melanin and he sure as hell doesn't stutter.
Ed: Dr Oz will grab this stuff and pitch it as preventing skin cancer for white people and curing their stuttering. Add some alcohol to the mix and he will sell millions.
Bad medicine is always the easiest to sell.
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