From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 03:09:47 MDT
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Hubert Mania wrote:
> But displaying green skin alone would not satisfy me. How much advanced gene
> engineering would it take to turn haemoglobin in chlorophyll, so we could
> use green skin to turn sunlight into energy? I remember, both are
Given the skin surface, that wouldn't be more than a few % of your
baseline metabolism. One could engineer unfoldable 'wings', but it seems
much cleaner to create a race of tree vampires, attaching to engineered
trees with a well defined interface (water, glucose, essentials,
minerals).
> biochemically similar. Would it effect our energy recycling in a negative
> way and damage our brain functioning, if we tried to run on photosynthesis?
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