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Since we have CRISPR and all the other cool stuff with gene splicing, might we be able to give ourselves gills one day? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It just seems like it would be a really cool thing to have gills and be able to populate the oceans in the same way we populate the land. We could have houses and shops and vehicles, andgo on walks/swims and just kind of live underwater.

Start a whole new second species of human here on earth maybe, Who knows?

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[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the whole "if humans were going to have wings we'd have to redesign the whole organism from the ground up" fiasco all over again.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Exactly.

We still theoretically could, I guess, but people already have enough body image problems just from getting wrinkly or kinda bald, let alone being a freak mostly made of human-skin batwings.