What about the genetic code to grow angel wings?

[Reptillian]

Mutant powers. Same way Magneto can bypass conservation of momentum.

He could channel the momentum into the Earth's magnetic field...then you wouldn't just have Magneto's mass in the equation...it would be Magneto plus Earth so any acceleration would be very small for even large forces.

 

[dust1n]

Ever wonder how Wolverine is able to extend and retract those claws of his at will? And also what is the mechanism inside his forearms that allow him to do this?

I wonder if there's an in-universe explanation for any this ... :wolverine:

Wolverine is a mutant with a number of both natural and artificial improvements to his physiology. His primary mutant power is an accelerated healing process, typically referred to as his mutant healing factor, that regenerates damaged or destroyed tissues of his body far beyond the capabilities of an ordinary human. This power facilitated the artificial improvements he was subjected to under the Weapon X program (in later comics called the Weapon Plus program), in which his skeleton was reinforced with the virtually indestructible metal adamantium.

...

Wolverine's mutation also consists of animal-like adaptations of his body, including pronounced, and sharp fang-like canines and three retractable claws housed within each forearm. While originally depicted as bionic implants created by the Weapon X program,[53] the claws are later revealed to be a natural part of his body.[54] The claws are not made of keratin, as claws tend to be in the animal kingdom, but extremely dense bone, and, without their adamantium coating, can cut substances as durable as most metals, wood, and some varieties of stone. They can also be used to block attacks or projectiles, as well as dig into surfaces allowing Wolverine to climb structures.[55] Wolverine's hands do not have openings for the claws to move through: they cut through his flesh every time he extrudes them, with occasional references implying that he feels a brief moment of slight pain in his hands when he unsheathes them.[56]


Wolverine's entire skeleton, including his claws, is molecularly infused with adamantium. Due to their coating, his claws can cut almost any known solid material. The only known exceptions are adamantium itself and Captain America's shield, which is the only substance in the Marvel Universe known to be even more durable than adamantium.[57] Wolverine's ability to slice completely through a substance depends upon both the amount of force he can exert and the thickness of the substance. The adamantium also weights his blows, increasing the effectiveness of his offensive capabilities.[30] However, this also makes him exceptionally susceptible to magnetic based attacks.[58]


Wolverine (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Midnight Pete]

The Christian's Armour (Ephesians 6:16) is of course metaphorical, but an actual Shield of Faith would be made of vibranium.

 

[Smoke]

I can't imagine anyone wanting avian wings or any other animal appendages grafted onto them. Angels are such a lame and lazy concept.

When I was a kid I thought Hawkman was cool. But given a choice, I'd rather fly like Superman.

 

[Smoke]

I wouldn't mind having a tail, but fashion might get complicated.

I'd take a tail, provided it was a prehensile tail.

 

[Midnight Pete]

How does Superman fly around without getting bugs in his teeth? And does everything become slow-mo for him when he uses his super-speed? And for crying out loud what was with that chest-logo thowing scene in Superman II ?

 

[Penumbra]

Having a pretty pair of angel wings might seem awesome. Angel artwork typically has very appealing aesthetics.

But in practice, genetically engineering a pair of angel wings onto humans would be pretty messy. First of all, with these complex structures on our backs, we wouldn't be able to lean or sit against things, or lay down on our backs.

Secondly, the weight of them would be annoying.

Thirdly, cleaning them would be a pain, especially if they were feathery. Being on our backs would be the most difficult place to clean.

Fourthly, wings of such size would likely be fragile and painful if injured.

Fifth, muscles capable of flapping such things would be big and ugly.

Sixth, flight would be pretty fun, but ultimately exhausting and sloppy. I'd prefer to fly around like supergirl than like a clumsy human-bird hybrid.

 

[outhouse]

Having a pretty pair of angel wings might seem awesome. Angel artwork typically has very appealing aesthetics.

But in practice, genetically engineering a pair of angel wings onto humans would be pretty messy. First of all, with these complex structures on our backs, we wouldn't be able to lean or sit against things, or lay down on our backs.

Secondly, the weight of them would be annoying.

Thirdly, cleaning them would be a pain, especially if they were feathery. Being on our backs would be the most difficult place to clean.

Fourthly, wings of such size would likely be fragile and painful if injured.

Fifth, muscles capable of flapping such things would be big and ugly.

Sixth, flight would be pretty fun, but ultimately exhausting and sloppy. I'd prefer to fly around like supergirl than like a clumsy human-bird hybrid.

your digging to deep into somebody else dream lol

i'll play. our bodies would never fly end of story, wings or no wings. we lack the porous bones to keep weight down, our hearts would fail and our lungs cannot proccess enough o2 our stomachs are not designed to proccess food fast enough to keep enough energy to fly.

wings on a human would be ornamental at best

 

[Penumbra]

your digging to deep into somebody else dream lol

yeah, well, wings are hot. It's not like I thought about the ramifications of having wings before or anything....

:angel2:

i'll play. our bodies would never fly end of story, wings or no wings. we lack the porous bones to keep weight down, our hearts would fail and our lungs cannot proccess enough o2 our stomachs are not designed to proccess food fast enough to keep enough energy to fly.

wings on a human would be ornamental at best

Granted. Though, genetic engineering could conceivably change all of that but by that point there wouldn't really be a point.

 

[Renji]

Having a pretty pair of angel wings might seem awesome. Angel artwork typically has very appealing aesthetics.

But in practice, genetically engineering a pair of angel wings onto humans would be pretty messy. First of all, with these complex structures on our backs, we wouldn't be able to lean or sit against things, or lay down on our backs.

Secondly, the weight of them would be annoying.

Thirdly, cleaning them would be a pain, especially if they were feathery. Being on our backs would be the most difficult place to clean.

Fourthly, wings of such size would likely be fragile and painful if injured.

Fifth, muscles capable of flapping such things would be big and ugly.

Sixth, flight would be pretty fun, but ultimately exhausting and sloppy. I'd prefer to fly around like supergirl than like a clumsy human-bird hybrid.

Aesthetically speaking, this looks good.

 

[outhouse]

yeah, well, wings are hot

roflmao good enough soldier good enough lol

 

[Katzpur]

Angels don't have wings. Any references to their wings in scripture is metaphorical and was not taught anciently. That they need wings to fly is a later development.

 

[outhouse]

true

they started out as ghost or spirits in the OT and evolved into the known angels of today

 

[Twilight Hue]

I know! Their wings are too small!

And yet they fly. They fly in the face of physics ...

Physics are still applicable.

Proven and eventually explained satisfactorily by scientists like Andre Sainte-Lague and John Maynard Smith.

 

[PolyHedral]

I'd take a tail, provided it was a prehensile tail.

Oh, yeah, not much point otherwise.

Angels don't have wings. Any references to their wings in scripture is metaphorical and was not taught anciently. That they need wings to fly is a later development.

Sounds suspiciously similar to whether Balrogs have wings.

 

[lunamoth]

I would say that natural selection and several millions of years are your best bet.

Sexual selection could work, but either girls are going to have to start going for guys with deformed vertebra that stick out their backs, or guys are going to have to start digging girls with webbed arms.

Of course, we could also just start jumping out of higher and higher trees for some reason. You go first.

 

[St Giordano Bruno]

I would say that natural selection and several millions of years are your best bet.

Sexual selection could work, but either girls are going to have to start going for guys with deformed vertebra that stick out their backs, or guys are going to have to start digging girls with webbed arms.

Of course, we could also just start jumping out of higher and higher trees for some reason. You go first.

Perhaps more like to be very elongated webbed fingers rather than the arms may be the thing which guys may dig as of with bats, but bats tend to be more associated with that darker realm. But true angels wings as portrayed in those old classical paintings would probably mean mutant humans would have to acquire one vertebra up the spine to mutate into an extra pelvis to grow an extra two sets of limbs in the form of wings. That would be a much greater evolutionary hurdle to overcome that just evolving our arms into bat wings.

 

[Penumbra]

I don't want webbed arms. I don't see how anyone could find that sexy. =/

 

[jarofthoughts]

I don't want webbed arms. I don't see how anyone could find that sexy. =/

Bats do apparently.

 

[St Giordano Bruno]

Look at the length of the digits on the bat, they have five "fingers" just like us but they are hyperextended to allow the webbing to evolve the the relatively huge area it has.
The fifth digit forms the webbing beneath the arms and there is even webbing from the rear hallux to the tail