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This is the Conversation Forum for Talking Point: Evolution and the Human Body << limb transplants? Females & sex >> Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 7, 2003 by RickyCafe   Posting 1 Since most of what we eat in modern life is responsible for so many of our ailments, I'd re-design the digestive system to filter out more of the stuff that we love to eat but which causes us such harm. Either that, or re-educate our brains to be more careful about what we send down our throats. (Hic!) Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 7, 2003 by 5th Earth (speaker to the void) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 2 While we're at it, let's make our appendix work again, instead of just periodically clogging and causing potentially fatal infections. Imagine eating the paper your hamburger came wrapped in too! Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 8, 2003 by Wejut - Sage of Slightly Odd Occurrences and Owlatron's Australian Thundercat This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 3 This is the best idea I've read today!!! Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 8, 2003 by Amanda This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 4 What if we redesigned ourselves so we did not have to eat at all, but could get nutrition another way. (Not sure how though) then we would not have to worry about over indulging and ever expanding waist lines. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 8, 2003 by 5th Earth (speaker to the void) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 5 There's always photosynthesis. But then we'd all have green skin and be nudists. Not that it would be a bad thing. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 9, 2003 by DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 6 Better idea is to allow digestion of tough plant matirials, as posted. a second or third stomach is generaly a help, but a way to digest methane into useable energy wouldn't go a mis. -- DoctorMO -- Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 9, 2003 by BobTheFarmer. I'm not really here. This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 7 How about we genetically modify a kind of algae to live in our blood? Then we let the algae grow and our bodies digest it. Yes we would be green, and have to be naked, and have to get our proteins, fats, and vitamins from other sources. But on the plus side you would never starve, unless you were trapped in a cave... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 9, 2003 by Amanda This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 8 I like this. Who do we put our suggestions to in order to get something done? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 9, 2003 by DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 9 It may not work as well as you hope, the design means that the level of light that reaches your blood though you epedermis isn't to great, if you stick it in your skin and it would just die all the time, I propose that great big leaves (or simila) should be grown from the tops of peoples heads. -- DoctorMO -- Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 10, 2003 by PuzzleMage This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 10 But maniac, I enjoy eating. I do it in reasonable moderation, but I don't want to give it up alltogether. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 10, 2003 by Amanda This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 11 Maybe we could just eat for pleasure, without the hassle of weight gain. And use photosynthesis or whatever for survival and to get the actual good stuff we need. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 12, 2003 by DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 12 As long as your willing to stick your hand in some gravel for a while, some of the phosphers and sulphers are interestingly needed with photo synthasis. -- DoctorMO -- Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 12, 2003 by Amanda This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 13 I knew we could solve this problem together. Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 12, 2003 by 5th Earth (speaker to the void) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 14 Lack of eating isn't a problem. See, whenever you're in the sun, you'll be generating energy, so you'll be "eating". Just standing outside will feel like eating! I think we won't have to worry about losing the pleasures of consumption. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 13, 2003 by Amanda This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 15 Nice one Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 13, 2003 by DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 16 OK so I flattly object to that... how are programmers, hackers and generaly weird'os suposed to live? I'm a programmer, and I love being up in the middle of the night. plus it means night clubs would be useless, people would get tired as soon as it got dark. -- DoctorMO -- Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 13, 2003 by Amanda This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 17 The night clubs could have like Natural light emulaters/simulators so we would think we were in day light. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 14, 2003 by DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 18 thats both is expensive and detracts from the point of nightclubs, how can you slink away to a corner and hide, if the whole place looks like a sunny day hit it? -- DoctorMO -- Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 14, 2003 by Amanda This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 19 Good point Doc. What about a room you could go to to recharge? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Digestive System Posted Feb 17, 2003 by DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 20 It's not effecient enough, you'd need power outlets and cordless recharging packs. (at the thought of people going around with plugs) -- DoctorMO -- Read the First Reply to this Posting Conversation list Most of the content on h2g2 is created by h2g2's Researchers, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites referenced. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click on the relevant button to alert our Moderation Team. Conversation list

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