Could you grow wings on your back and fly?

Jade and Lauren want to know if it's genetically possible to grow wings on your back and fly. Find out from MIT biologist, Dr. Sera Thornton!
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[LA-shjh]

"...when your already fully developed"
Me: most of my brain cells are still not here

[Cloud_x]

I hope i get wings i dont care if i cant fly i just love how it looks

[lucdeligne]

"Is it really ok to give a human wings without asking their permission ?" that's a very good question.
But I would argue "Is it really ok to give a human LIFE without asking their permission ?". Most of us seem agree that yes it is.
But isn't that a paradox ?

[ryleighrawesomeo]

Just read maximum read maximum ride...

[apathetixx]

I like how they say you should ASK if a unborn baby wants wings. OH but a lab rat definitely wanted to be poisoned!

[emilyrice]

Theoretically, you can SAY something is impossible all you want, but it is never truly impossible unless proven.

[Apollo]

The answer is yes...




Just drink red bull

[vverlaine]

"Is it ok to give an unborn baby wings?"

Its like asking, "is ok for you to be born?" Like bruh.. the baby doesnt even have a choice.

[NattiKay]

Another problem: the wings of a bird or a bat are technically their arms, so even in theory it wouldn't be as simple as taking out the wing coding from a bird or bat genome and pasting it into a human one to get an otherwise normal human-but-with-wings. A human with two legs, two arms, _and_ a pair of wings would have six full limbs, something that neither birds, bats, nor humans are really equipped to have.

If a human wanted wings we'd either have to sacrifice their human arms by _replacing_ them with the wings, or else find a way to engineer a human body that can support what is essentially a very specialized second set of arms.

[lilywinters]

Baby: HELP I HAVE CANCER HELP
Doctor: oh no!
Doctor: my god its stage four!
Baby: HELP GOD I`M DYING!!
Doctor: ok, we will have to ask you first though ok.
Doctor: will it be okay if we cure from the disease?
Baby: No, im sorry
Doctor: ok have fun

[goldenduck]

What percent of this video attempted to answer the question?

[gamingomnimon]

Hopeful during my lifetime that can do this

[neofox]

If I die... and gonna get reborn
Before I’m developed, please give me wings.
That would be fucking brilliant

[jessicafichtinger]

I....I have a dream....I dream of you and flying high above....we’re soaring over me with some wings, for I so want to fly, these precious white wings....will take me soaring the sun that lights the day! To the clouds that drift away! Only then will I be Past the city lights and haze! Through the autumn trees ablaze in the sky I am truly free!!!! Just you and me!!!

[Katinnity]

I did a wing spell a year ago and had burning shoulder blades. I'm doing a subliminal to help it and now I can feel a bump on my shoulder blades. I do not care if it doesn't work I'm just trying. JUST IN CASE

[songulkale]

"Is it really okay to give a human wings without asking their permission?" Then why people think it's okay to give a human life without asking the babys permission? The baby didn't ask for it.

[claytonfischer]

well actually with the rise of 3D printing cells we have the potential to artificially create wings, the tricky part would be linking them up with the brain and then actually learning to use them, plus your metabolism would have to call for more energy to actually use the wings in flight, not to mention you may need stronger skeletal support where the wings would attach to your body.

[dre_]

If you made wings and connected them to your nerves would that react like a dog tail aka being controlled at will

[lawrence]

I wonder if in my next life I will be a dragon :3

[maxinevela]

"it's to late your fully developed"


me: * think about rebirth *