Wings.. Options

I was just curious to know if anyone had any insight on the appearance of wings on humans. I'm not exactly planning to whip me up some big angel wings and go zipping about, but I thought this was certainly worth discussing. From what I hear, any sort of "controlled mutation" can be very dangerous and troublesome. But other than that the only way I can think of would be to make a deal with an angel or demon. Has anyone here tried this? or atleast thought about it?

Hey!

Just a few points that came off the top of my head.

The wings would have to be huge to achieve lift, you would probably never go inside a house or car again. Then you would have to account for placement, one place would be between your shoulder blades. If that was the case you would have to reconnect your pectorals to your new wings, which would limit the mobility of your arms, severely(why we didn't evolve wings in the first place). Or grow new flight muscles,which could be placed over your traps and wrap around over your lats to connect under your pecs (it would roughly follow the pre-existing template of how the pecs connect to your upper arm)... I believe that genetic tampering on this scale is currently considered unethical, so you would be hard pressed to find someone to do this procedure.

If we lightened the wing design (bone structure) the strength would be compromised, and the wings would easily break. Take the femur for example the epiphysis is porous, Spongy bone that contain red marrow(produces red blood cells). The Diaphysis is compact bone, it's hollow, and full of yellow marrow, it's build to support your weight. I can't decide where to take weight from, but since blood cell production is essential, I would assume we would turn the compact bone in to spongy porous bone, no more breaking cinder blocks, so more slam dunks, one short fall and you'd shatter your hips, ribs, and collarbone, where before you would just sprain a wrist. There is a reason birds have brittle bones.

I wouldn't mind having wings, I just don't think it's probable at this time, granted what we're doing with mice and jelly fish(did you know they have a million dollar mouse, and mice that glow in different colors at UNMC) it's possible, right now [/u]really really unethical.



Plan B: summon an angel and ask him (please be kind and summon a male) to "take off his shirt"... from there you could examine him and take notes on a design for yourself.