You Gotta Hand It To Them

Bush Robots - Fingers On Your Fingers On Your Fingers...

"In his 1941 novel Methuselah's Children, Robert Heinlein writes about a human baby modified by an alien race. The baby was given the following "improvements" (among others):

"...it's body architecture has been redesigned for greater efficiency, our useless simian hangovers have been left out, and its organs have been rearranged in a more sensible fashion. You can't say it's not human, for it is... an improved model. Take that extra appendage at the wrist. That's another hand, a miniature one... backed up by a microscopic eye. You can see how useful that would be, once you got used to the idea."

Aside from this just being a disturbing image in general, if aliens were to modify humans in this way, I don't think I could ever get used to telling someone to give me thirty (as in..."Hey, our team just won the championship. Gimme a high thirty, man!").

On a sidenote, when I took piano lessons as a kid, I learned from a music book called "Teaching Little Fingers to Play".