• Question: Is there or can there be any possible way for a human to fly?

    Asked by sophieekettle to Joel, Kristian, Tim, Venus, Zachary on 19 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Kristian Harder

      Kristian Harder answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      With plane or wingsuit, no problem. But you are probably thinking of other ways, like bioengineering ourselves some wings, or some kind of antigravity magic? Bioengineering might happen in the far future, but I don’t like the idea. Antigravity might happen in the future too, but according to what we know now this is not possible, so you’d have to rely on our understanding of the universe being quite wrong.
      Let’s just stick to planes for now, and try to make them better. 🙂

    • Photo: Tim Hollowood

      Tim Hollowood answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      humans can do anything because we have learned to use tools. So we can dive under water, fly through the air and even go into space. We have learned to transcend our bodies.
      Probably you mean going back to basics without the use of tools. In that sense no, just as we can’t breath under water. I don’t see any selection pressure to drive evolution in that direction in the future either.

    • Photo: Zachary Williamson

      Zachary Williamson answered on 20 Nov 2013:

      Sure, you just need a lot of thrust! Nobody’s tried to strap a jet engine to a human and see what happens though, for…ethical reasons.

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