Can I add wings? I wouldn’t mind being able to fly around!
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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You can absolutely add wings!
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Yeah not too many people in this thread have considered the “adds” it seems! Do you have an add?
Awesome question!
I would add a stem cell gland to help with healing injuries and stuff.
Whoa you just took it to another level. I think I like yours better!
Eliminate the need to sleep.
As others have mentioned:
Welcome to 24 hour work days...
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Well you didn't say for everyone... So maybe he meant just for himself :)
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You could pre-empt the need to shit by not having to eat or drink. Honestly, when I lament humanity's weaknesses I eventually always come back to the fact that we're creatures in this universe that can only persist if we kill and eat other creatures. How would we be fundamentally changed if that were no longer true?
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It's selfish, but hair growth. Hair removal steals so much of my limited time.
Toenail growth.
Cutting nails is annoying, and toenails are awkward and stupid.
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Consciousness
Good news, we can actually do all of the above already!
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add consciousness have kids
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remove consciousness die
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alter consciousness do drugs
Sweating. I wanna be exclusively water cooled. None of this evaporative cooling BS. Just swap fluid every six months to a year. I always need moving air anyways…
To be water cooled we would need some kind of radiator, I guess moving blood through your extremities could work but seems risky from an evolutionary perspective. Like if you're hot from running from a predator your hands and feet would be flush with blood.
Also I think evaporative cooling could help you maintain a body temp of 38 when the ambient temp is somewhat warmer than that like 45 or so. I don't think a radiator could do that.
Sorry to get all practical in this thread about not needing to poop. I was just kinda thinking out loud.
All answers are valid here, we're all basically thinking and daydreaming out loud.
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Remove need to sleep. You would get ~33% more time every day.
We’d just be exploited for our labor 33% more.
I can't wait to work 24 hours a day! No pesky sleep getting in the way anymore.
Sleep's the only thing stopping you from working 24 hours?
It's the only thing stopping the people in charge of our society from mandating 16-hour days
Sneezing/snot production. Sure, it can feel amazing. But the sudden urgency to stop everything I'm doing and focus on my nose or risk a disgusting eruption of green mucus all over my face in a public setting is something I could do without.
Also, I'm waiting for someone with medical knowledge to come in here and mention Prions or something else silently devastating to the body.
Sleep. It used to take up nearly a third of my life. Since having Long COVID, it's closer to half my life.
Honestly, think of what we could get done if we had all that extra time...
needing food. that would free up a lot of time and money, no input = no output. no dishes, no stove or fridge, no need for a dishwasher, then on the other end, no need for TP, or even a toilet!
This was my comment. My dad and I felt that same way but my grandmother just couldn’t understand how we could.
If I never needed to eat, that’d be wonderful. No more getting fat ever again and I’d probably be 100 times healthier.
If you're still regenerating tissue, your body is still producing weight. Drastically reduced (I'd guess by 75% total, of which 2/3 is dead digestive bacteria you'd no longer need), but still existent.
Fun fact, you don't defecate out weight loss, either. You exhale carbon in CO2
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Nails. I think we could go without nails. Specially toe nails. Finger nails could be an optional add on.
I don't mind shitting, it feels good. We could probably absorb more of it so we have less shit to do? Seems so inefficient.
Eh, I think I'd rather keep the nails for protection and to open soda cans and whatnot, but yeah it would be nice if they weren't continuously growing and need regular trimming.
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OK, we can compromise and keep your index finger and thumb nail. But they grow at 1/10 the speed.
I would eliminate the ability for humans to reproduce.
Have you SEEN people?
Have you seen a birth? Not fun
Honestly, I have. Not in person though, but on PBS Public Television.
I do not have the parts to experience child birth, but indeed it does not look like a fun experience.
Yeah so my partner gave birth to twins in a c-section.
I also do not have the parts but hoo-boy that was the experience of a lifetime, and not necessarily all fun / happy joyous.
Basically the pregnant person is on the table and they erect a sheet vertically just below her arms. Then dad (me) sits by her head and holds her hand while the magic happens.
It seemed like there was about a dozen people in the theatre, the kids each having their own team of pediatrician and nurses.
It was a complex pregnancy and while everyone is fit and well now the 48 hours following that operation were pretty terrifying.
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Sleep.
Welcome to 22 hour work shifts, with twenty minute breaks.
I wanted to say allergies, but I am not sure you mean abnormal stuff too.
Breathing otherwise. Annoying + can't stay underwater for long enough.
Though if add, direct thought + feeling sharing. Current communication is way too inefficient.
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Another thought, it would be nice if our hair didn't grow like any longer than an inch or so, where people wouldn't need regular haircuts or complicated hair styles.
I mean sure, ladies wouldn't be able to grow their hair out as is fairly common these days, but if our hair always stayed relatively short, it would be perfectly normal, and would save us the hassle of going to the barber.