eli5: Why is it not possible to build bird-like attachable wings that account for body proportions to allow humans to fly or glide around?

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eli5: Why is it not possible to build bird-like attachable wings that account for body proportions to allow humans to fly or glide around?

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First of all, birds aren’t real. They’re Surveillance robots engineered to fly. If you don’t believe that then you should know that birds are much less dense than humans. The majority of their weight is in their enormous breasts that power their wings. Humans are mostly water. Water is heavy. And our muscular system is designed to keep us upright while walking and manipulating objects with out hands. Even if we had giant wings, we don’t have the right muscles to power them. We do however have very big brains. And our big brains enabled us to conceptualize things like gravity and fluid dynamics and jet propulsion which inevitably lead to inventions and engineering marvels that allow humans to fly. And we fly faster and further than any bird. Take that birds. Losers.

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