2013
Magazine Super Humans Marvel The story of amazing humans called super humans marvel!!!!!!
Jennifer Alejandra Palala Dionicio Amanecer School 26/04/2013
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The legendary creator of the X-Men talk about evolution and genetic mutation have endowed humans with astonishing new abilities and features.
The series of Stan Lee scours the globe for the real-life counterparts of Lee's characters–people with unique genetic traits that translate into remarkable powers.
Daniel Browning Smith
He discovered his extreme flexibility at the age of four. While roughhousing with his siblings in Meridian, Mississippi, he jumped off a bunk bed and landed in a split. Daniel went on to tour with a traveling sideshow and train with Master Lu Yi in the ancient art of Chinese acrobatics. He now holds the Guinness World Record for most flexible man. Daniel can do almost anything with his body, from dislocating both his arms and legs to rotating his torso 180 degrees.
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Tim Friede has made himself into a human guinea pig by allowing some of the world's deadliest snakes to bite him and recording the results, in a quest to help reduce the 20,000 deaths that are caused by snakebites throughout the world each year.
Tim received his first snake bite age 5 from a garter snake.
As a human crash test dummy, Rusty Height puts his life on the line and has been in over a 1,000 car crashes. While working as a police crash investigator, Rusty realized that many law enforcement officers have to deal with serious road traffic accidents without any prior training.
To achieve this, Rusty started crashing the cars himself and soon gained a reputation as the man who willingly crashes cars at speed for a living.
Just one tenth of an amp can kill an ordinary person, but Daniel Browning Smith witnesses Nair passing more than 30 times that amount through his body and emerging completely unscathed.
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Chris Robinson claims to have incredible powers like that of the Marvel comic book character Destiny: He believes that his dreams are a window into the future. Chris says he began dreaming of the future in 1986, when he dreamt about a radioactive cloud heading towards London. Two days later, the Chernobyl disaster happened, sending a radioactive plume over most of Europe.
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Timo Kaukonen Timo Kaukonen pushes his body to the limits of heat endurance. he's capable of withstanding16 sweltering minutes in temperatures hot enough to boil water.
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Salim Haini, a 25-year-old Algerian, has been dubbed the "Man Who Eats Anything." His incredible gastronomical feats include munching his way through candles, plastic, strip lights, sawdust, nails and newspapers.
Salim first discovered his ability to eat an ything as a teenager, while fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. He began to eat whatever he could get his hands on for breakfast.
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His superhuman ability to control his body's automatic responses to the sword being pushed down his throat. His neardeath experience, when he punctured his stomach while swallowing seven swords at once, demonstrated what happens when you lose control over these muscles. Dan says that he's able to swallow 15inch razors, hedge clippers and even curved blades that nudge his heart out of the way as they pass by.
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Bob Munden, the planet's swiftest gunslinger, is rumored to be faster than the blink of an eye.
Bob holds just about every world record in every fast draw category he competes in.
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Yves Rossey Using a wing strapped to his body, Yves steers using microscopic adjustments of his body. The thing that sets him apart is that he doesn't just glide: his body is the fuselage, allowing him to fly upwards and in formation with other aircraft. Even the tiniest error would result in disaster.
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Garry Turner discovered his extraordinary ability to stretch his skin when he was just 4 years old.
Garry has a rare genetic mutation known as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which alters the way collagen is structured in his body.
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Tom can apparently withstand the crushing force of heavyweight trucks driving over his stomach.
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Is a world champion high diver.
Professor Splash has taken the art of shallow water diving to a new level, and has traveled the world breaking records and entertaining millions.
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Eskil Ronningsbakken of Norway appears to have a superhuman ability to switch off fear, enabling him to override the innate reactions our brain would normally have in the face of deadly heights.
Eskil discovered he had a natural tolerance for working at heights and for balancing.
Eskil has now completed some of the most death-defying balances in the world, including a handstand on a pole suspended from a hot air balloon.
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Ron White calls himself a "brain athlete�. Since then he has trained up to six hours a day to turn his brain into a supercomputer, able to memorize and recall data at record speeds. Ron says the key to his training is to be distracted while memorizing things; this gives his brain incredible focus. For example, to become the U.S. Memory Champion he memorized cards while snorkeling, and recently he has been memorizing cards while jogging. He has even trained while at major league baseball games.
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How can you know if you are a super human?
You can know if you have some kind of different mutation or a different kind of sick thing in your body.