I was reading an Asimov book on Alien intelligence and the odds of contacting such. In passing he mentions that dolphins may be intelligent, but it's really just speculation since tool use among creatures without manipulative appendages is pretty low.
And it hit me, "why not give them hands?"
My wife argues that it would be cruel and irresponsible of us to genetically manipulate a species that might have a lot going on upstairs.
But we wouldn't know unless we try. We know that they retain many mammalian skeletal structures (land animal structure is fairly sound) and hands would allow them to continue swimming as well. We wouldn't see dolphins evolve for millions of years into something like that, if at all.
I tell ya, it's so crazy it just... might... work.
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Feet would be much better.
What if they decide to bitch-slap humans, then? Granted, some humans need it.
"Bitch-slapped by an icthyomorph" sounds so totally embarrassing.
But, I think, well worth the risk.
Hey! Is he one of the "Killer B's" I hear so much about these days?
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