PlayingGawd

Nearly impossible, but a lot of things in history were unlikely. The chances of life starting on any planted are slim-to-none but we're here

But if we spend a long time trying, and test enough, couldn't it happen? Isn't it at all plausible? People would almost never be overweight since they'd be getting a large part of their "food" from the sun.

Y'all are mean My first post ever on this site and I'm ignored. I think the best place to start (for making plant people) would be with stem cells, as ethically unnerving as that is. Attempts to give grown people chlorophyll/chloroplasts would probably fail as the body would likely see them as invaders and attack. You could probably test with axolotls too [link] but they're endangered now.

Hello SF, I'm new and wasn't sure where to post this so sorry if it's the wrong place. I assume most of you genii know of the Endosymbiotic Theory (mitochondria and plastids originally being individual organisms). Well since chloroplasts were/are likely alive and decided to live in plants, would it be possible to place them into other organisms and have a symbiotic relationship form? Or could we give an archaeon or bacterium some mitochondria and see what happens? Could we give ourselves chloroplasts and photosynthesize? Would we need to add chlorophyll to our skin pigment to be able to? Is it at all possible?