Ripping off a post I just saw in the Isaac Arthur subreddit. Imagining we work out the technical ability. Examples they suggested were:

  • No periods
  • No balding
  • No nausea
  • No body odor
  • Resistance to obesity and muscle wasting
  • confluence@lemmy.worldEnglish
    531·
    1 year ago

    Redesign the spine for vertical use. Don’t put the eating and breathing tubes on either side of the same flap.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      We should have tons of little breathing holes all over.

      Imagine if no one snored?

      • roguetrick@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        While you can create spiracles that repel polar substances like water, you cannot protect them against surfactant like soap. No more showers unless you want to drown.

        • foggy@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah but we would have probably made weird body suits to deal with that by now if it were that big a deal.

          We’re really, really bad at preventing problems, but were the best problem solvers we’ve ever found.

          Seems just about every other animal is great at preventing problems. We’re the opposite.