Future Engineered Humans

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Future Engineered Humans
Topic Started: May 17 2009, 06:13 PM (1,229 Views)
rufus	May 17 2009, 06:13 PM Post #1
Newborn Posts: 37 Group: Members Member #171 Joined: May 14, 2009	One possibility fpr futre engineered humans Dixon left out of his Man After Man is a human engineered for flight. As Brian Stableford observed in Future Man, a flying human would ahve to have greatly reduced body size, and reduced brian size. I once thought of two species of evolved humans derived form engineered stook; one is a flying primate with elongated jaws and fangs and talons for grabbing prye, much like a bird of prey. The other is a small species of humanoids adapted for underground dwelling, with enlarged ears for sonar, and stunted eyes. I can envison a vast desert-like future environment, where the latter is preyed on by the former.

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sam999	Nov 4 2009, 06:39 PM Post #16
Adult Posts: 886 Group: Members Member #212 Joined: Sep 6, 2009	How about just a huge sac of flesh holding all the organs and a huge brain? It is fed by IV and is linke dto computers to operated robotic bodies in sort of a hivemind.
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Holben	Nov 5 2009, 12:56 PM Post #17
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	Hiveminds? How would it do that?
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


lamna	Nov 5 2009, 01:11 PM Post #18
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	Throwing the hivemind thing in makes no sense. Otherwise, a very silly idea. What's wrong with the current bodies? Storage space?
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Holben	Nov 5 2009, 01:35 PM Post #19
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	What's wrong? Well, they're slow, weak, fragile and heavy.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


Canis Lupis	Nov 5 2009, 01:44 PM Post #20
Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth. Posts: 5,881 Group: Away Staff Member #95 Joined: Oct 16, 2008 Gender: Female Nationality: United States Favorite Quote: "A speccer once tried to tell me I was wrong. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."	And humans wouldn't engineer that AT ALL.



Holben	Nov 5 2009, 03:32 PM Post #21
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	We are anyway, i was saying.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


Jurassic-Gothic	Nov 6 2009, 02:04 PM Post #22
Infant Posts: 130 Group: Members Member #208 Joined: Aug 24, 2009 Nationality: Gehennian	Excuse me, people. Maybe it's an offtopic thing, but I am collaborating with another DeviantArtist, named Gorgonbreath, that is drawing future humans. Lotsa mutations, outcasts and much more. The fiction she's writing takes places on a future desert Earth. Her site is here: http://gorgonbreath.deviantart.com/ Probably I'll open a topic about, because talks about an evolutionary continuum someway, involving flora and fauna too. Edited by Jurassic-Gothic, Nov 6 2009, 02:05 PM.



Holben	Nov 6 2009, 02:04 PM Post #23
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	In which forum?
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


Jurassic-Gothic	Nov 6 2009, 02:06 PM Post #24
Infant Posts: 130 Group: Members Member #208 Joined: Aug 24, 2009 Nationality: Gehennian	Jurassic-Gothic Nov 6 2009, 02:04 PM Probably I'll open a topic about, because talks about an evolutionary continuum someway, involving flora and fauna too. The answer is in the quote Edited by Jurassic-Gothic, Nov 6 2009, 02:06 PM.



Holben	Nov 6 2009, 02:07 PM Post #25
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	I didn't read it.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


Jurassic-Gothic	Nov 7 2009, 12:15 PM Post #26
Infant Posts: 130 Group: Members Member #208 Joined: Aug 24, 2009 Nationality: Gehennian	Holbenilord Nov 6 2009, 02:07 PM I didn't read it. Better submit at "Alternative Evolutions" since taking place in an Alternate Universe Since everything is identical to Earth, even its natural history but something has happened in its near future. Is it the right choice? I hope so



Holben	Nov 7 2009, 12:15 PM Post #27
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	i think so, but if it is in the near future, it should be in EC.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


Jurassic-Gothic	Nov 7 2009, 12:33 PM Post #28
Infant Posts: 130 Group: Members Member #208 Joined: Aug 24, 2009 Nationality: Gehennian	Holbenilord Nov 7 2009, 12:15 PM i think so, but if it is in the near future, it should be in EC. Yes, but alternate universe. Alternate universe=alternate evolution, even if evolutionary continuum, in this case. It's just my opinion



Holben	Nov 7 2009, 12:34 PM Post #29
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	I dunno. Alternate, put it in A and E.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


Jurassic-Gothic	Nov 7 2009, 12:43 PM Post #30
Infant Posts: 130 Group: Members Member #208 Joined: Aug 24, 2009 Nationality: Gehennian	Holbenilord Nov 7 2009, 12:34 PM I dunno. Alternate, put it in A and E. LOL



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