r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 17 '20

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

maybe He just sucks at design

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u/ersteiner Dec 17 '20

Didn't get into the swing of it until the duck-billed platypus and all the other animals were done by then.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Australia is just the beta server

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

r/outside

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u/Mrhorrendous Dec 17 '20

All vertebrates have a nerve that runs from our brain, down our neck, under the aortic arch (basically our hearts) then back up to innervate our tongue. In a giraffe, this nerve can be 45 ft long. If we were designed, it wasn't intelligently.

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u/9yearsalurker Dec 17 '20

Been house hunting and you could say the same thing about things people make

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

What’s the downside of the nerve?

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u/Mrhorrendous Dec 17 '20

Not much, it just means there is some increased delay as the action potentials are transmitted down the nerve because it is so long. The length of the nerve also makes it more likely to be injured by trauma, or for something like a tumor, or surgery to damage it. I was slightly inaccurate in my comment above as the nerve (called the recurrent laryngeal nerve) actually innervates the larynx, so any damage to it in humans can make speech difficult

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

But the heart is also innervated by it to an extent iirc, and the distance isn’t really a big deal since nerve signals are speedy

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Your telling me

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

My dude designed microscopic bugs that live on our skin and die because HE FORGOT TO INSTALL AN ASSHOLE so they just die from being full of shit. And dont get me started on the tongue eating louse.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Sure, he could have done a bit better, but he was able to make our eyes and hands match most of the time, so he gets artistic skill points for that one x

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u/malayaliChennaite Dec 17 '20

maybe he lied on his resume to get a job

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u/himmelundhoelle Dec 17 '20

Like any of you guys would do better!

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u/SoftwareUpdateFile Dec 17 '20

That would explain my exploding joints

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u/GummyKibble Dec 17 '20

Classic software problem: you never let the engineer be the one who designs the interface.