Why Adamantium Skeletons Are Awesome

I've spent a lot of my life telling you what superpowers you wouldn't want...an adamantium skeleton might be different.

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[kylehill]

Thanks for watching, my swarm of nerdlings

[jonknowsnothing]

I'm just glad to be a part of a timeline where Thor devoted his life to teaching science after Mjolnir broke

[benthomason]

"I'm not a human doctor, but I'm pretty sure you need blood." --A normal human.

[CalvinMagnusMusic]

I remember reading a comics issue where a medic is doing some tests and exams on Wolverine for poisoning effects and says something like "I can tell you must feel this constant pain through your whole body, at all times, due to your tendon and muscle ligaments not being able to sustain the skeleton's sheer weight. Am I right?" Logan's answer: "It's only pain". Savage af.

[colinayre]

‘Why doesn’t nature give us metal bones?’
*me gets confused and looks at the periodic table’
Hmmm calcium is a metal according to the periodic table...

[bigolbigmoose]

Kyle’s voice when he said that he thinks that people require blood to survive. That was an absolutely beautiful reaction.

[Fsilone]

The trauma of the surgical application is exactly why it was performed on Logan in the first place; his healing factor allowed him to survive the surgery when it would have killed anyone else.

[kristjanbrezovnik]

That would be fun with MRI.
Doc: You got any metal in you?
You: Just the skeleton.

[thedefenestrator]

I’m curious how having a metal skull would affect the sound quality of your hearing. The acoustic resonance of my metal skelly is a fascinating topic to explore!

[joelproko]

A metal skeleton would be a terrible idea, if it even worked at all:

- The body would need a way to reabsorb parts of the metal, otherwise only the outside of the bone could grow, leaving you with the same inner diameter you had when you were an embryo/toddler/whenever your body first started depositing metal, which would leave you with not enough blood production.

- You could not just bend something back without surgery so invasive it would be rarely worth it. You could *not* just grab a bent limb and bend it back, because your flesh around the bent metal, in both/all the places you're grabbing it, would get squished and/or cut all the way to the bone way before the metal would even consider bending. Even if you tried to bend it with magnetic fields to avoid touching and thus squishing, the magnetic field strengths involved would heavily impede your blood flow, to say nothing of other effects on the rest of your body.

- There's another problem with bending something back: Have you ever tried to bend and then straighten a thick (at least 0.5mm^2) solid wire (as opposed to a wire made of several thin filaments)? It's very hard to avoid ending up with crinkles around where the bend was, especially if you're only grabbing where you originally grabbed to bend it.

- A lot of illnesses would be way harder to detect, diagnose and treat, especially around the brain. Good luck getting a CT scan or an MRI of the brain when it's encased in solid metal. Same with the interior of bones. Good luck detecting that tumor, or prion desease, or leukemia.

- Also, good luck getting a heart transplant or doing any surgery that requires opening the ribcage. You now need metal cutting tools, except you don't want sparks and hot tiny metal shards (not just from the bone, but also from the cutting tool) spraying over the inside of the patients body. And when you're done, you need to reattach the cut off parts, probably by drilling holes and connecting them with bridges and screws - forever, because the body has no reason to know how to grow cut metal bone back together.

[mako]

Brain injuries with adamantium skull be like: game over

[harshroy]

Metal skeleton sounds complicated. But exoskeleton? Easier.. And I quote:
"NANOMACHINES, SON"

[bplup]

"Going to the airport would be a tremendous hassle."

Glad to see adamantium makes airport security less obnoxious.

[sebastienpaquin]

Stronger bones is good and all, but would the tendons and ligaments be able to take the extra strain your bones could take or would they just destroy your weak, fleshy insides?

[devindykstra]

I mean... Other than the fact it poisons you.

[MiceAndMinecraft]

Scientists have actually identified a gene that gives the humans who carry it extra dense bones that are significantly harder to break. My family appears to have it, possibly on both sides, and in living memory I'm the ONLY person in my family to have managed to break any. This was through great dint of effort, and only the very tiniest distal phalanges in toes and a finger.

That is despite a lifetime of slightly extreme sports, accidents and hard physical jobs. It took the entire weight of a warm blood colt at high speed to even fracture my fingertip. Getting smashed through a solid post and rail fence, brand new and shattering the upright that was 6"x6", did soft tissue damage but didn't break a thing.

This was despite my tibia literally being exposed from the impact. The doctors x-rayed me twice because they couldn't believe it wasn't broken. Th specialist called in to double check just stared at the x-rays, stared at much leg, shook his head in disbelief and said " you must have VERY strong bones".

I did give me more muscle mass and strength. I trained as a farrier (blacksmith) & could literally lift and carry an anvil with no problem.

Unfortunately despite almost unbreakable bones, my nervous system & immune system are not likewise superpowered, and are extremely faulty. The world is safe from a potential super villain. 👍

[deplorablekunt]

I had always thought his bones were “infused” with adamantium, not coated with it. Therefore, his marrow can still make blood cells.

[TheInfinityMaster]

But then, everyone in the world will be weak against *Magneto.*

[noahgormley]

Kyle, happily: I give killer high fives
Kyle, threateningly: I give *killer* high fives

[isekaiexpress]

Me, (having a metal skeleton)
My immune system: "Wait, that's illegal."