"Damn, he's tall!"
"Quite, but not as tall as he will be! You see, with the Ubermensch Initiative, we can push humanity to its truest potentials. By implementing our synthetic organs and limbs, while manipulating how specific genes will act, we have the ability to cross all sorts of physical boundaries.
"Daniel here, standing at eleven feet, two inches, may be the tallest man on earth. However, after the seventy-three hour procedure, he will stand at a towering eighteen feet!"
"Well that's...interesting."
"What? Are you not impressed?"
"No, yeah, it's impressive to be sure. I guess I'm just trying to figure out why. I mean, are we going to to put him to work trimming trees? I just don't understand why we can't be content at our current height. Why must we 'cross physical boundaries' just for its own sake?"
"Well we're on the path the the Ubermensch! It's in our name and everything! We need to perfect humanity so that we can become something more!"
"Yeah, see, I'm not sure you're really grasping that concept. I don't think we're supposed to be striving to become a species of giants, I think we're supposed to be looking to have a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us."
"Well... You're probably right and everything, but we kind of already have the ball rolling on this one, so, we'll probably stick with it... Still want to invest?"
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