Twilight Got me Thinking

Since there are three types of humans beings in Twilight: The humans, the Vampires and the Werewolves I started thinking about all this in terms of both physiological differences, psychological differences and religious differences of two leggeds or humanoids.

Though Twilight is obviously fictitious, it touches powerful chords obviously in fans in much the same way Harry Potter did for a slightly younger crowd, whereas the most avid Twilight fans start with Puberty and go up from there and are mostly but not entirely of the female persuasion.

So, I started thinking about the possibilities of humans designing themselves for different environments, like dusty, humid, underwater, thin air etc. in much the same way that humans have plastic surgery. These types of climate preference or planetary preference type of physiological changes are the next likely set of parameters that humans will attempt to change. First, there will be the military superheroes and I think we are well on our way to that already especially using steroids and other drugs. However, I'm talking about something else. I'm talking about designing things that never were before like gills made of human flesh and cartilage so people wouldn't have to use scuba tanks anymore. Gills could begin to be artificial much like rebreathers are now that don't release any bubbles to the surface. Eventually, from what humans learn they could slowly begin to create humanoid gills so that a person could either breathe air or water.

I think the question here is not if it will happen but when it will happen. I believe people will create adaptations for whatever space or planetary environment they find themselves in or in which they decide to stay. Even if the environment of earth changes significantly from what it is now humans have the potential to redesign ourselves genetically so that even environments today's humans couldn't possibly survive in future genetically modified humans could.

In the past the average temperature at the North Pole was 74 to 76 degrees Fahrenheit. In such an environment most of us would have trouble surviving unless all of us lived near the north or south poles and the equator would likely be mostly abandoned if this happened again. However, we could always genetically adapt ourselves to these new environments.

Most of the time people don't consider this option but remember it is already on the horizon in the arsenal of survival tools that humans are more capable of using every day.