There are two solutions to finding angels. One of them is to wait until an angel comes down from Heaven and the other is to make one. In these modern days of GMO how hard could it be. Almost everything those opposed to GMO say about recombinant DNA is crap but maybe the GMO people can at least make a human with wings ... if not an angel.
So far they have made fish that glow in the dark ... and this would be good for advertising if BP had not polluted the water with oil so no-one could possibly see them.
They have made all kinds of GMO plants and they aren't so much a problem as Monsanto wanting to make a monoculture out of them and they are the only source. A monoculture is the single most destructive thing for an active genome because it removes diversity and variation. Without that, their resistance to climate change and variations in diseases is close zero. (That exact problem afflicts banana crops in many parts of the world right now)
So they make useless stuff ... but how about making that angel.
Pre-medical students are cutthroats and nothing satisfies them but the highest possible grade in any class. So it was with my ol' Dad's Evolution class and he required of them a term paper. This was the last paper any of them would write in their undergraduate careers and it didn't matter if they wrote it as all would graduate and go to medical school regardless. Nevertheless, cutthroats ever, they must have the highest grade and this is what drove the paper on angels.
Your view of angels is hopelessly unworkable. The muscles required to flap the wings need to be immensely powerful (i.e. large) and they also need a formidable anchor or they will tear apart the skeleton. Therefore, the sternum (i.e. breastbone) needs to be substantially reinforced.
You may have some twisted fantasy of a hot angel but the actuality is that any angel boobs would be on each side of a keel that would intimidate an ocean yacht racer. If you still think that's hot then call up the GMO kids and make one.
Some basics on Angel Building
It's necessary to make a substantial reduction in the density of the bones or the weight of the angel will be too heavy for the wings to lift.
Various changes in blood chemistry are necessary for more efficient oxygen transfer, etc.
An industrial-strength heart is necessary with the power of a Marshall amplifier.
Angel females must be willing to sit on an egg for nine months. (That wasn't in the paper. I just thought that would be a pleasant prospect for women.)
Bigger lungs, smaller legs ... pretty soon your angel is a duck.
So far they have made fish that glow in the dark ... and this would be good for advertising if BP had not polluted the water with oil so no-one could possibly see them.
They have made all kinds of GMO plants and they aren't so much a problem as Monsanto wanting to make a monoculture out of them and they are the only source. A monoculture is the single most destructive thing for an active genome because it removes diversity and variation. Without that, their resistance to climate change and variations in diseases is close zero. (That exact problem afflicts banana crops in many parts of the world right now)
So they make useless stuff ... but how about making that angel.
Pre-medical students are cutthroats and nothing satisfies them but the highest possible grade in any class. So it was with my ol' Dad's Evolution class and he required of them a term paper. This was the last paper any of them would write in their undergraduate careers and it didn't matter if they wrote it as all would graduate and go to medical school regardless. Nevertheless, cutthroats ever, they must have the highest grade and this is what drove the paper on angels.
Your view of angels is hopelessly unworkable. The muscles required to flap the wings need to be immensely powerful (i.e. large) and they also need a formidable anchor or they will tear apart the skeleton. Therefore, the sternum (i.e. breastbone) needs to be substantially reinforced.
You may have some twisted fantasy of a hot angel but the actuality is that any angel boobs would be on each side of a keel that would intimidate an ocean yacht racer. If you still think that's hot then call up the GMO kids and make one.
Some basics on Angel Building
It's necessary to make a substantial reduction in the density of the bones or the weight of the angel will be too heavy for the wings to lift.
Various changes in blood chemistry are necessary for more efficient oxygen transfer, etc.
An industrial-strength heart is necessary with the power of a Marshall amplifier.
Angel females must be willing to sit on an egg for nine months. (That wasn't in the paper. I just thought that would be a pleasant prospect for women.)
Bigger lungs, smaller legs ... pretty soon your angel is a duck.
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