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So close!
The greatest thing on this thread is how disappointed we all are for some bizarre reason lol. It would be cool to get them back for better balance.
Wait - I finally found a use case for Neuralink that I can cheer for!
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Yet there's plenty of animals that have tails and don't spend time in trees, such as dogs, horses and cows.
The tail seems like vestigial anatomy (originally useful in fish) that has three possible states in mammals: 1. Repurposed for a new function (tree swinging, signals) 2. Not much used but still in the repo (mice) 3. Garbage collected (apes).
So they hired radicals to genetically engineer a retrovirus, to remove the tail. This worked, but due to unconsidered balance issues, all tail devoid children lost the capability for bipedal balance and therefore walking.
Most of these children, during their formative years spent their time on all fours, and thud their hand dexterity was pitiful, and society crumbled when they came of age.
It was another 46k years before a brain mutation emerged, re-enabling bipedal balance, but by that time all traces of the old civilization was lost, and thus, progress began anew.
Would be cool if we had tails, so I could wag it with my future dog!
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Yet there's plenty of animals that have tails and don't spend time in trees, such as dogs, horses and cows.
The tail seems like vestigial anatomy (originally useful in fish) that has three possible states in mammals: 1. Repurposed for a new function (tree swinging, signals) 2. Not much used but still in the repo (mice) 3. Garbage collected (apes).
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If we're doing germline edits, the obvious thing to fix first is vitamin synthesis. There are a bunch of useful things other living things synthesise from first principles, and we don't so we need to eat something that has already synthesised the thing we wanted, and we can't cook or preserve it in any way that destroys the material we needed or it won't work. That's what scurvy is, a tree or a lizard just makes its…
If we're doing germline edits, the obvious thing to fix first is vitamin synthesis. There are a bunch of useful things other living things synthesise from first principles, and we don't so we need to eat something that has already synthesised the thing we wanted, and we can't cook or preserve it in any way that destroys the material we needed or it won't work. That's what scurvy is, a tree or a lizard just makes its…