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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by LesserAbe@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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
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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

We should have tons of little breathing holes all over.

Imagine if no one snored?

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 26 points 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.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

So you're saying I can kill a fly with some soap spray.

Wasps too? Those fuckers.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 8 points 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 points 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.

[-] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

Never mind snoring, imagine how bad a cold would be!

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 6 points 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.

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 5 points 11 months ago

So we'd have to be naked to breath at full capacity?

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 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)

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