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
    1071·
    11 months 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
      332·
      11 months ago

      We should have tons of little breathing holes all over.

      Imagine if no one snored?

      • roguetrick@kbin.social
        26·
        11 months 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.

          • roguetrick@kbin.social
            8·
            11 months ago

            You can waterboard them with it. If you want to effectively kill them, I’d recommend using the tried and true neurotoxin option sold at your local grocery store. You can be your own Saddam Hussein without having to hide in the most random places after committing your war crimes.

          • jennwiththesea@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            Wasps, definitely, and it does basically suffocate them. We use a water, dish soap, and peppermint mix on paper wasp nests that form in our eaves.

        • foggy@lemmy.world
          6·
          11 months 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.

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Not necessarily. I’m far from sold on the idea, but lungs are able to take in enough oxygen to hyperventilate easily, clothes would reduce the maximum air intake to some extent, but from l full capacity would be max you need to breathe to max out your muscles - everything past that would be excess capacity

          If we’re going for redundancy and throughput, clothes probably would be more useful as a filter than being a limiter (and filtration is why I’m not on board with this design)