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
Redesign the spine for vertical use. Don’t put the eating and breathing tubes on either side of the same flap.
We should have tons of little breathing holes all over.
Imagine if no one snored?
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.
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Never mind snoring, imagine how bad a cold would be!
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.
Yes, food hole and air hole should be separate
Body hair is now opt-in
Location specific.
I wanna be a chewbacca.
Yes! With the ability change your mind please!
Ability to regrow lost teeth
*if teeth are in a regular position.
Just as long as I don’t grow my wisdom teeth back. I don’t want to have to have those removed again.
How about repeated full replacement every 5-10 years?
I love the idea of adults with loose teeth as their tenth set of teeth comes in.
Sorry my performance has been below average lately, boss, I’m just getting my 8th set of teeth.
“Hey, go easy on Jim, he’s teething this week.”
I don’t know. That could become tiresome.
Ability to go to sleep when sleep should be gone to.
Or the ability to forgo sleep indefinitely. I’ve got too much shit I want to do and too little time.
Let’s apply RPG sleep rules.
You can go for weeks without sleep, but when you do sleep, you awaken fully healed.
Hair and nails not constantly growing
Your body not over reacting to things (allergies and auto immune)
Hunger annoys me.
Like, yo, tummy: I have not failed to feed you in over 30 years. Maybe don’t cause me physical pain and nausea? A simple grumble is fine until it gets actually serious, ok?
So you want hair and nails to grow consciously?
Like if I want to grow my hair out, I need to actively concentrate on it for a year? Or can I grunt out a moustache like a cartoon? Both are problematic.
You consciously initiate the process and then it grows on its own, with the option to manually stop.
Right? Im very cool with rhe whole balding thing but for fuck sake can I not be Chewbacca walking carpet from the neck down?
Very short mating season. The amount of people is too god damned high.
Pon farr!
Or just have a built in birth control switch that has zero side effects. Of course, it would have to be entirely controlled by the individual so as not to turn into some dystopian population control mechanism.
OK, but only if it’s like May or June. No one needs that shit in February.
Add more holes to the body.
What, do pores not count?
no holes for you
For what?
I’m not that picky about their primary function.
Goddamn ear fuckers.
eargasm
Manual/deliberate sperm/egg production.
Manual/deliberate control over fat creation and storage.
Manual/deliberate control over fat creation and storage.
Monkey’s paw on this one is that you’d end up having some pretty fantastic explosive diarrhea as the bacteria chow down on your energy loaded waste.
Fair trade.
I accept these terms
Manual/deliberate sperm/egg production.
I’m not an evolutionary biology expert, but my armchair thought process says that this trait might not survive the evolutionary pressure. The burden of child rearing is quite high (specially these days).
(+) baby pouch, like marsupials’
(+) limbs regrowth capacity, like salamanders’I tried to click your (+) thinking it would expand. sigh
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LOL 😆
I was going to pinch and expand cartoons on physical paper many times and just stop before doing it many times recently 😋
Micro-organisms taking a shit on our teeth doesn’t cause cavities.
Just brush your teeth bro it’s real easy takes like 2 mins
I suspect they do. This post is about fantasy.
Everyone has perfect mechanical health always.
My spine thanks you
Suggestion: Each comment should be reposted to !monkeyspaw@sopuli.xyz , or that community should be invited to respond here…
No more fucking hemorrhoids!
Reduce max fingernail length pls
Appetite is 100% linked to calories needed. You still enjoy food, but the moment you swallow enough calories for whatever you did since the last time you ate, you have zero appetite and anything put in front of you loses all appeal.
Terrible for survival situations, great for modern life where an abundance of food is a bigger problem than a scarcity.
Yes, but with a tweak.
Being able to tell how much food you need in advance would be better, so that instead of thinking that you’re really hungry and piling your plate, you only buy or prepare as much food as you need. That would cut down on food waste too.
Maybe it could be based on the average daily calories used each day over the past month to replenish exactly what’s been used plus predict ahead until the next meal time?
