If people had wings and could fly it would be considered exercise and nobody would do it.
Americans wouldn’t do it, the rest of the world would
Yes. Burgerlanders are very averse to any level of self improvement that might be difficult. I blame the car culture propaganda more than I blame the people though.
Please stop bad-mouthing Americans, it’s just self loathing at this point. It cannot be that black and white.
dont mention black and white around americans… one of those might shoot the other.
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In America it’s a lot of white, black typically winds up on skid row or at the morgue.
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How can it be self loathing if I’m not American?
If you look at birds like the kakapo, they would’ve had flight in the evolutionary past, but evolved out of it due to lack of predatory threat.
This can be part of Island syndrome, where the dodo also suffered from, till sailors came around and found out they were tasty.
We’d end up making flying cars so we wouldn’t have to fly ourselves…
this is literally how it works for birds, that’s why you see especially pidgeons and corvids walking so often, they just don’t need to fly a lot so they simply walk.
Behold, a feathered biped
Between this, my stripes, and my tail… all things I have genes for, but no activation…
I’m kinda pissed, being human could be far less cringe
Humans do have stripes but we ourselves can’t see them.
Look up Blaschko lines
Unless you have the right skin condition I don’t think they’re visible in any wavelength
isn’t that only true for XX chromosome people?
This sounds like a fun PhD project
My guess is they mean we have the genes to encode the proteins, since we have similar keratinized tissues like hair and nails. But probably not the hox genes to encode the structure
I want the damn feathers for the social aspect! If we were allowed to preen each other, the world would be a better place!
we are allowed to preen each other, just start helping your friends and family with their haircuts
What does that even mean, you have like “four letters” and dna strands of millions long. Like how selective do you have to be. I’m sure you can basically write anything that way.
Are there entire chunks that are inactive that would give feathers, that at some point gave feathers to our ancestors?
All things DNA is full of code that doesn’t get activated and is just passed on anyways
Gene expression is what they mean by “activated”
Basically think of it like having a library of instruction books and only grabbing a few of them to do the project that needs done.
I agree, this seems pretty misleading. And are there any other feathered animals other than on the dinosaur branch? Because if not, how should the feather DNA even end up in mammalian DNA?? Or maybe feathers are produced by very common differently used genes? But in this case this would be even more nonsensical…
I recall that scientists reactivated chicken genes for teeth and grew a toothed chook
I’ll settle for hair regrowth.
Now go into a forrest with flint and boom
infinite ammo
Just need two chickens, a dispenser, and a redstone clock for infinite chickens
