can human beings be experimented on to have wings and fly like birds?

Question

i once read a novel(fiction)where some kids (humans) were experimented upon by some crazy government officials under a top classified condition to have wings and actually fly like birds.one of the kids escaped(a girl) and the secret was discovered,in as much as the novel is fiction i have this strange feelings that it could be true,am i communicating?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Unlikely to be able to fly. Human bodies are quite dense in comparison to a birds. Consequently, there would need to be a MAJOR restructuring of the upper torso - to such an extent that it would be difficult and very painful to move around. Compare a bird's chest to see how enlarged it needs to be to take the bone and muscle structure. And also keep in mind that a bird's bones are much less dense than a humans.
Getting a human to glide, however, would be different. Since no flapping would be required there would be no requirement for such an enlarged bone/muscle structure. For gliding some kind of membrane would be needed to stretch from the arms, along the length of the torso, and down the legs to provide enough surface area to create lift. This would be the simplest option of the two, but would mean that when you walk around you would have large flaps of skin hanging from your arms to your legs.
It's a great idea for a sci-fi novel, but not likely to happen.

Answer 3

They would no longer resemble humans if it were to happen. For starters, birds have a vastly protruding breast bone referred to as a keel (as it resembles a boat's keel) to anchor powerful pectoral muscles. In our current configuration, we'd topple over foreword. Secondly, to reduce weight, a birds bones are hollow. Given an average size human, add on the weight of the musculature to provide lift, the bones could not support the weight of the body. Basically the entire body would have to be restructured, and you'd be reinventing the bird. Which, by the way, seems to be doing just nicely without our meddling.

Answer 4

I read an essay that looked into the physical requirements of this very thing. The scientists involved agreed that if all other conditions (hollow bones, etc) were met, a human's breast bone would have to extend out over six FEET to accommodate the musculature required for flight.

Not very practical.

Answer 5

I don't believe so, birds have hollow bones which makes them lighter and makes it easier to fly. Humans weigh an awful lot and the way we are built, even if some person genetically manipulated some one to have wings and hollow bones, I believe the whole body's system would shut down. It's not natural.

Answer 6

I think anything's possible if you've got the money, the will, and a "Kill the man who questions...and also the horrible failed mutations" attitude and i doubt you'd call the result a girl or boy, let alone human, but that doesn't mean the answer is no.

Answer 7

yeah we could but there should be involved some cloning tech, the DNA should be modified during several generation...and maybe in some hundreds years we will have a specimen that is capable to fly like birds...but like any first specimen it will be a crap :)

Answer 8

If its fiction then you know that is not true. So stop believing on everything that you read.

Answer 9

Maybe we could fly, but not like birds... We don't have hollow bones, for one thing... Our bodies should be changed a lot...

Answer 10

Xmen