• Question: Will it ever be possible for humans to evolve and have the ability to fly.

    Asked by (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)JellyMan! to David, Eva, Kate, Nicholas, Rachel on 10 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Rachel McMullan

      Rachel McMullan answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      Hi
      Characteristics only evolve if they give us a survival advantage over everyone else, like the ability to run faster than someone else when you’re being attacked by a tiger. Currently I don’t think being able to fly would give us many survival advantages so sadly probably not. It would be pretty cool though.

    • Photo: Nicholas Pearce

      Nicholas Pearce answered on 11 Nov 2015:

      Hey,

      Evolution happens veeeeeeery slowly, as the genes in a creature change to help it survive. Thanks to science and knowledge of DNA, we can now change genes and DNA much much quicker, so in the future perhaps we could add information to the genes of humans to give them wings, making ‘evolution’ a lot faster.
      Before then we might have really good jetpacks or hoverboards though, so we might not need wings after all!

    • Photo: David Nunan

      David Nunan answered on 11 Nov 2015:

      I doubt it – but would be cool if we did though!

      I reckon that someone will develop technology to allow us to fly without having to get into a big machine like a plane or helicopter. Something like Ironman’s suit or maybe a flying car like in star wars or something with magnets to make a real hoverboard!

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