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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:I saw no mention of feathers like a puffin
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for the record, im a bird wings guy
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May 17, 2023 17:57
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so i don't even get to choose wings of shadow? man, what a poo poo deal.
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May 17, 2023 18:01
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rotor posted:i ask people normal things, like whether they'd rather have a prehensile tail or wings (you cant fly tho, you just have wings) our 'scrum coach' asks questions like this to start off our retro meetings and for some reason i mysteriously always have connection issues
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May 17, 2023 18:04
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i get that you can't fly, but what's the glide ratio of the wings?
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May 17, 2023 18:18
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bird wings, bat wings, pterodactyl wings are all going to be in place of your arms and hands. ain't never seen a bird with 6 limbs. got to go with bug wings if you want those as an extra and keep your arms.
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May 17, 2023 18:36
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what the hell is the point of wings that don't let you fly, seriously like, flightless birds generally have these little vestigial wings that they always keep folded in and all they use them for is flapping in a threatening manner or covering up babies once in a while. these ones you're proposing are gonna be similar. just for show. on the other hand a prehensile tail is literally like having a third arm. all benefit, no downside except maybe you'd have to find a new way of sitting down if i were going to get an animal-inspired purely aesthetic genetic alteration it would be spots or stripes.
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May 17, 2023 18:37
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Cerv posted:bird wings, bat wings, pterodactyl wings are all going to be in place of your arms and hands. no no no we're talkin just wings on your back, you still have arms, we're not goin crazy here
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May 17, 2023 18:38
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Sagebrush posted:what the hell is the point of wings that don't let you fly, seriously they're pretty
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May 17, 2023 18:40
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Yeah sorry the gently caress marry kill question is much better than would you rather have a cool tail or a horrible disability e: ok if you still have arms i guess it's not as bad but they're still just a massive inconvenience and anyone who thinks they're pretty is just gonna find out you can't fly and give the world's most disappointed "oh."
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big black turnout posted:Yeah sorry the gently caress marry kill question is much better than would you rather have a cool tail or a horrible disability 
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May 17, 2023 18:41
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also i understand that the reason apes don't have tails like other monkeys is one specific mutation in a known location in the genome. so you could probably grow human babies with tails right now with crispr etc. there's no foreseeable path to wings on your back (as noted, in all tetrapoda they are modified from the arms) so that's just science fiction
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May 17, 2023 18:43
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you can use slurp juices on apes iirc but not humans
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May 17, 2023 18:50
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someone wanting to gently caress elon is science fiction too
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May 17, 2023 18:52
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Sagebrush posted:also i understand that the reason apes don't have tails like other monkeys is one specific mutation in a known location in the genome. so you could probably grow human babies with tails right now with crispr etc. there's no foreseeable path to wings on your back (as noted, in all tetrapoda they are modified from the arms) so that's just science fiction oh ok
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May 17, 2023 18:53
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you're just mad that everyone picked the obvious answer a much meatier debate would be prehensile tail (straightforward and functional) vs wings that you can use to fly (highly appealing but also very awkward)
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May 17, 2023 18:55
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wings no question even as highly dangerous as it would be
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May 17, 2023 18:59
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this whole page makes me feel like I'm in the convenience store in Clerks
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May 17, 2023 18:59
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humans with wings would be insanely dangerous
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Beeftweeter posted:humans ftfy
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May 17, 2023 19:02
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i liked the dragon ball manga growing up
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Sagebrush posted:you're just mad that everyone picked the obvious answer I'm not mad y'all picked tails, most engineer types do. wings that let you fly are OP and everyone picks them, so the convo is less interesting
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May 17, 2023 19:03
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flying wings would have to be enormous (think hang glider), plus the musculature required to support them would deform your torso. also your dumb human heart and lungs don’t have the capacity for outputting enough power continuously to keep you flying. and your dense, non-hollow bones are a liability. basically you’re asking to be a giant bird.
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May 17, 2023 19:04
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that captain america drawing
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The Management posted:flying wings would have to be enormous (think hang glider), plus the musculature required to support them would deform your torso. also your dumb human heart and lungs don’t have the capacity for outputting enough power continuously to keep you flying. and your dense, non-hollow bones are a liability. basically you’re asking to be a giant bird. 
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rotor posted:wings that let you fly are OP and everyone picks them, so the convo is less interesting you could reframe the question so the OP part matters less would you rather have gills with the ability to survive deep underwater pressure or wings and the ability to survive high altitude flight?
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Cold on a Cob posted:you could reframe the question so the OP part matters less the gills suicide rates for wing-people would probably be off the charts
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May 17, 2023 19:10
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i'd definitely choose the gills too, imagine all the cool and scary poo poo we could find in the ocean
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May 17, 2023 19:13
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Cold on a Cob posted:you could reframe the question so the OP part matters less gills also prehensile tail over flying wings
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May 17, 2023 19:14
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The gills so i can be Aquaman and own a lot of beachfront Florida property
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Cold on a Cob posted:i'd definitely choose the gills too, imagine all the cool and scary poo poo we could find in the ocean big black turnout posted:The gills so i can be Aquaman and own a lot of beachfront Florida property bring on the Waterworld future imo
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May 17, 2023 19:24
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:bring on the Waterworld future imo i too want to make out with kevin costner
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May 17, 2023 19:29
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Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?
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too many deadly things just floating about in the ocean and I say this as someone who loves the ocean and kept reef tanks for decades assuming physiological changes for flight in the same scope as physiological changes for gills I'd rather have flight
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Wheany posted:Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny? not exactly,
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theres no way i'd want to discover weird new undersea bullshit, that is loving terrifying
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rotor posted:theres no way i'd want to discover weird new undersea bullshit, that is loving terrifying what about surveillance balloons
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I'd still like you to discover the giant horrors of the deep though
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FAUXTON posted:I'd still like you to discover the giant horrors of the deep though yeah like someone has to do it but it sure as hell aint gonna be me
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rotor posted:yeah like someone has to do it but it sure as hell aint gonna be me maybe they'll be your friend though
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