Genome fun

[Buckaroo Banzai]

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-rewrite-entire-genomeand-healthy.html

This is a huge first step toward making baseline humans such are ourselves completely irrelevant and paving the way for our post-human, Godlike, Charmin soft extra fluffy descendants. Woot Woot and a Woot woot all around says I!  What say you gaggle of scurvy forum peeps?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-rewrite-entire-genomeand-healthy.html

This is a huge first step toward making baseline humans such are ourselves completely irrelevant and paving the way for our post-human, Godlike, Charmin soft extra fluffy descendants. Woot Woot and a Woot woot all around says I!  What say you gaggle of scurvy forum peeps?

I say we program in hideous BEETUS.

Because fuck the future, that's why.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

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[Kai]

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-rewrite-entire-genomeand-healthy.html

This is a huge first step toward making baseline humans such are ourselves completely irrelevant and paving the way for our post-human, Godlike, Charmin soft extra fluffy descendants. Woot Woot and a Woot woot all around says I!  What say you gaggle of scurvy forum peeps?

Thanks, another link for my BREAKING HYPE list.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

I say we program in hideous BEETUS.

Because fuck the future, that's why.

Not quite enough horrific irony in there for me. Couldn't we make them severely diabetic, otherwise nigh unkillable supermen, whose sweat has the same saccharine composition as a Snickers milkshake. That was something as simple as the secretions from there own skin could drive them into coma followed by inevitable Blue Oyster Cult death?

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

One of my friends once sat down and tried to speculate about what would happen if you were to modify the appendix, since we don't know much about what it does other than if helps to propagate certain bacteria. This of course ended in theorizing how to make women lactate beer, because of course it did.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Not quite enough horrific irony in there for me.

You want your money back?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This of course ended in theorizing how to make women lactate beer, because of course it did.

Figured it might.  Because, you know, women are appliances, right?  Why not try to perfect them?

[Kai]

One of my friends once sat down and tried to speculate about what would happen if you were to modify the appendix, since we don't know much about what it does other than if helps to propagate certain bacteria. This of course ended in theorizing how to make women lactate beer, because of course it did.

Weak. The appendix is a microbiome storage system. If your gut fauna gets wiped out by disease or antibacterials, your appendix is the center of recolonization.

Also, beer lactation? Weak. How about appendage asymmetry? How about armoring the brain and putting it in the center of the body? How about fiddling around with the gonosomes so that people can change sex like clown fish? You dream small. I dream of insects the size of a mobile home.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

What about doing something about the spine, which could really use improvement IMO?

Also, gestation and birth... surely, there are ways to improve THAT.

Also, yes to changing sex.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

And as long as we're modifying things for fun and convenience, maybe we can make breasts that go away when we aren't using them, because seriously c'mon.

[Kai]

What about doing something about the spine, which could really use improvement IMO?

Also, gestation and birth... surely, there are ways to improve THAT.

Also, yes to changing sex.

Spine needs a Hero Shrew upgrade.



Gestation and birth...how about going the way of marsupials? Except the pouch would develop during pregnancy and disappear after the baby is weaned.

And as long as we're modifying things for fun and convenience, maybe we can make breasts that go away when we aren't using them, because seriously c'mon.

Agreed. Human morphology should be functional and fabulous.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Whoa, that spine looks like a SERIOUS upgrade! I want one!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Pouch might not be a bad idea. Even better, depositing eggs in the water and leaving. 

(Mostly just kidding about that, I mean really. But maybe dropping a fist-sized permeable "egg" into a nutrient bath and just making sure it was fed and protected until it hatched might be an upgrade.)