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@captainlongschlongsilversdong

he/him, 20, Aussie but with a messed up body-clock 6 hours behind
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'the human body is perfect god doesnt make mistakes' what about wisdom teeth then. huh. gonna let those bastards grow in and fuck up your jaw for god. didnt think so

also the exploding appendix

there's an entire book about all the ways the human body is fucked up, but the highlights I remember are: -The blood vessels for our rods and cones in our eyes don't run behind them but rather in front of them. It's like putting the power cables *over* a camera's lens -the nasal sinus cavities fucked up during evolution. when our skulls shortened, we went from having a straight shot from one end to the other to having basically a basin which can collect mucus, which then has the actual exit for the chamber at the top of it. this normally isn't a problem bc cillia can work viscous mucus up it, but when we get sick and produce super watery mucus, it no longer works, which is why our noses get stuffed up. the book is called Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes. I recommend it.

Most mammals can’t get scurvy. They make their own Vitamin C. But in primates, the gene to make it is broken. Normally, when an important gene breaks, the organism dies and has no surviving descendants, but when it broke a few million years ago, our ancestors were living in a lush climate with lots of fruit and survived the failure just fine.

Then humans invented fire and clothing, and moved to colder climates where fresh food was only available part of the year, and scurvy was born.

And our reproduction, oh heavens. There are SO MANY WAYS that human reproduction is fucked up that simply DO NOT APPLY to other animals, even the our nearest relatives, the great apes. When a gorilla is giving birth, she finds a nice hiding place in the trees, squats down for like half an hour, and pushes out a baby. Humans, not so much. In fact, the outcomes of unassisted childbirth in humans are so poor that most anthropologists agree that we must have invented midwifery in some form before we became fully human.

nyanguardparty

i hate that trope of "you scientists might now all that scientific data about flowers or whatever but you don't appreciate its beauty" like i guarantee not only they do, not only in the common way but also in studying it which is not some cold emotionless endeavour and learning that stuff can be an appreciation of its beauty!!! but also they will find beauty in things you probably think are gross like worms and slime mold and stuff

I will never forget the day I saw my professor fall to her knees, a rapturous expression on her face. "Oh, it's so beautiful." she breathed, and I leaned closer to look at what she had found and

It was rust fungus.

It was a tiny brown spot of rust fungus on a piece of grass.

It's like a weird side effect of anti intellectualism. Like if you understand something you cannot possibly appreciate it, not the way we ignorant do. In fact, it's possibly the opposite. Knowing every detail, every step, every act borne of billions or years of evolution and sheer luck, must make The Thing so much more majestic.

nyanguardparty

oh hey it's my post. I'm still right about this and I'm still glad nobody pointed out i misspelled "know"