Will humans ever photosynthesize like plants?

[OsO]

BBC - Future - Science & Environment - Will we ever? photosynthesise like plants?

"Humans have to grow, hunt, and gather food, but many living things aren’t so constrained. Plants, algae and many species of bacteria can make their own sustenance through the process of photosynthesis. They harness sunlight to drive the chemical reactions in their bodies that produce sugars. Could humans ever do something similar? Could our bodies ever be altered to feed off the Sun’s energy in the same way as a plant?

As a rule, animals cannot photosynthesise, but all rules have exceptions."

 

[BlvdBrawler]

No. But that would be dope.

 

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BBC - Future - Science & Environment - Will we ever? photosynthesise like plants?

"Humans have to grow, hunt, and gather food, but many living things aren’t so constrained. Plants, algae and many species of bacteria can make their own sustenance through the process of photosynthesis. They harness sunlight to drive the chemical reactions in their bodies that produce sugars. Could humans ever do something similar? Could our bodies ever be altered to feed off the Sun’s energy in the same way as a plant?

As a rule, animals cannot photosynthesise, but all rules have exceptions."

I think so. Not photosynthesis but solar powered humans.

Nanotech and Biotech are still their infancy.

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

WELL PLANTS STILL HAVE TO GET WATER AND SUCH. IT'S NOT LIKE THEY ONLY NEED SUNLIGHT.

 

[88m3]

Why not

 

[Dirty_Jerz]

since all plants have protiens just like all animals do maybe there is some way we could intergrade that into our own systems with liquid chlorophyl and chloroplasts somehow

 

[Samoa]

 

[OneManGang]

The day humans use photosynthesis is...well never. That would be a whole new species.

 

[daze23]

one way or the other, we depend on the sun

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

A Swiss woman managed to starve herself to death after trying to follow a sunlight-only diet, after watching a documentary of an Indian guru who claimed to live this way for 70 years. Well, someone was lying and, no offense gurus, but obviously you CANNOT live on just sunlight alone. If you don't believe that, then look into the millions of people who die of starvation and thirst every year. Unfortunately, wanna-be ascetics have been dying of an inability to put two and two (food + water = alive!) together in Germany, Britain and Australia according to the Swiss paper Tages-Anzeiger, but for this woman to starve in Switzerland, home to some of the best cheese and chocolate in the world, just seems exceptionally unnecessary.

Woman starves to death on ill-conceived sunlight-only diet

 

[OsO]

The day humans use photosynthesis is...well never. That would be a whole new species.

what defines when one species officially ends and another begins?

 

[OsO]

I think so. Not photosynthesis but solar powered humans.

Nanotech and Biotech are still their infancy.

ahhh the integration of man and machine. it has some very practical uses but can easily be taken too far. i am skeptical about the chances our government will use this technology righteously.

i prefer the integration with nature and working with the elements, but i know yall aint feeling that alchemical shh. but in reality our goal should be powering our cities with our own internally generated bioelectric energy. our bodies produce a lot of electricity but we could be producing a lot more.

 

[Meta Reign]

I think so. Not photosynthesis but solar powered humans.

Nanotech and Biotech are still their infancy.

I can imagine some sort of nanotech that embeds like a solar paneling skin into the body. Sh!t sounds cool as fukk.

 

[Lord Beasley]

I can imagine some sort of nanotech that embeds like a solar paneling skin into the body. Sh!t sounds cool as fukk.

hell yeah, that's that shyt i DO like!

 

[Hip-Hop-Bulls]

black people use sunlight to make vitamin d thanks to our melanin