Wings or a Tail?

[Tharwen]

The ability to smell like a dog, as long as it didn't come with the damp nose. That would be awkward.

 

[acosn]

wing dingers.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

I'm going to go with the obvious choice of wings here. I'd just laugh in the face of natural disasters. I would have to cut on the fast foods though; can't fly if you're a fat slob.

 

[Zinaxos]

By the way:
If you had wings you would lose your arms.

OP:
I do not want ANY animal adaption, humanity is perfect in it's evolution in my opinion.

What if you had wings on your back? Archangel style...

 

[Zinaxos]

Wings

 

[soren7550]

I'd love to have a pair of strong raptor (bird of prey, not the dinosaur) wings.

Would make travel a bit easier. Would also allow me to get out of conversations/situations/etc. I'd rather not be in. Of course, that wouldn't work so well if I was inside though.

 

[Palademon]

It's a boring answer, but I would like wings on my back, as long as they weren't overly feathery (I already have dandruff, I dont want more crap falling off me, unless it is very pretty). It's not because I like the idea of flying, that barely crosses my mind, but I've always loved the idea of having wings, maybe to curl around me and others.

 

[meepop]

First of all, how would you GET one of these extra physical parts, because that's essentially what people did in Bioshock using Plasmids and look what happened to them! Before you flame me please note if it came from when you were born I'd assume no one would want you because of your wings/tail/gills/giant animal genitals. That's not an insult it's just speculation...But if I'm not supposed to read too much into it then I'd probably want the wings of a butterfly (Fitted to my size of course), a monkey's tail, regenerative abilities of a lizard/salamander, or gills (Not replacing my lungs though!)

 

[Dr. Awesome Face]

out of wings or tail i'd go wings, but only if they were like the kind that guy had in Xmen 3.

other enhancements that would be cool:
enhanced senses, like from a dog or something.
the ability to always land on your feet, from cats.
the ability to lift a fucktonne, from ants.
Prehensile tail would be pretty awesome.
Gills, because I have trouble breathing underwater sometimes.
Dislocating my jaw like a snake. two reasons for that last one. First it would be a better party trick than that double-jointed guy. And second I would be able to put an entire steak in my mouth.

 

[MartnRendrs]

i want the sense of smell of a Daspletosaurus ( if extinct animals count) it is even better than the T-rex's. or the absurd toughness of a water bear (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade) it can survive in the vacuum of space for TEN frikin' days (probably even more)

 

[sgtshock]

By the way:
If you had wings you would lose your arms.

OP:
I do not want ANY animal adaption, humanity is perfect in it's evolution in my opinion.

... Seriously? I know most of us don't really need to be super fast or strong, considering our lifestyle, but still, as far as physical prowess goes, humanity is pretty pathetic overall. I'd hardly call that perfect.

Personally, I'd rather have the senses of an animal than one's physical traits. Super-hearing, mostly.

The senses are a tolorable change I suppose but to actually change us physically will make us no longer human.
Humanity is the greatest thing in existance in my opinion and I am very stubborn in that opinion, no-one has ever been able to convince me otherwise.

Wow. I may not agree that we're perfect, but that is such a refreshing change in opinion from all the "HUMANS ARE BAD BECAUSE WE ARE WEAK AND HAEV NUKLEAR WAR AND GREED BUT AMINALS ARE PERFECT AND STRONGER AND NICER THEN US" you hear constantly.

Also, on-topic, gills would be pretty nice, as long as I could conceal them beneath my shirt. I'm not a very good swimmer, so it'd be nice to know that drowning is an impossibility.

 

[Jamiemitsu]

Tail, I think. No logical reason, just want one. Cat or monkey tail, preferably.

 

[Legion]

I would prefer humanity to be the most powerfull rather then just taking what it needs.

May I ask why? If we have reached the point where we are surviving perfectly well, and quite luxuriously to boot, then what more is there to gain from a further quest for power?

The glory.
It proves our power and strength!
I wish for our glory to shine until the end of time!

So changing our physical abilities would deny us humanity.

However conquering a galaxy at the cost of all other life, despite us being the only known species with the morality to understand why we shouldn't, is perfectly acceptable?

Physically speaking we have merely adapted to our environments.
Mentally speaking we adapt our environments to suit us.

It is the latter which makes us human a lot more than the former.

 

[Scobie]

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[Snowden's Secret]

Either wings, a prehensile tail, or the genitalia of a barnacle. Relative to my size of course.

I was wondering if someone would mention a barnacle's penis. Huzzah for QI. (provided that's where you got the reference from)

OT: That is a difficult question. I would probably get different adaptions to make up for the shortcomings in my own physical senses, for instance new eyes & ears.
But with a choice between wings & tail, I'll go for tail. Wings would be way too obtusive for my liking.

 

[rokkolpo]

By the way:
If you had wings you would lose your arms.

not necesarilly.

a hippogryph has 4 legs and additional wings.
or that vampire guy in underworld.

 

[Grahav]

There are even stronger bugs out there like the dung beetles

 

[Sir Bob]

Strenght of a dung beetle / Water breathing of a fish / Survivability of a cockroach / Gliding ability of that one kind of squirrel whoes name eludes me.

One of those, all almost equally awesome.

 

[Fenolio]

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You misunerstand.
If we evolved naturally to our next stage then the "greatest thing in existance" title would be passed onto them.
If we did it ourselves then our current stage would be the creater of the next one, therefore our current stage would keep the title.

Even though they will be able to create the next stage as well as have all of their improvements that we gave them?
Just because we forcibly advanced ourselves (which would probably end up really badly) doesnt make the stage we are at now 'the best'.
There is no 'the best'. There is just the most likely to survive organism.

We discovered fire. Fire is warm. Caveman drops lunch in fire, runs off to get spear/stick whatever, meanwhile food is cooking, caveman gets food out of fire, realises it smells and tastes really good, hunts more and cooks more, food last's longer when cooked meaning caveman's mind has time to become bored which encourages entertainment which encourages knowledge which encourages advancement which encourages more free time which encourages... etc. you get the idea.

Therefore all a species needs to advance is boredom (opposable thumbs help too).

OT: Fox tail+ears combo.
Ears for better hearing (duh) and tail because it can be a makeshift fuzzy blanket if needed.