Reading this bunch of modern true-believers confidently preach the dogma of the hour (evolution yes! design no!) is nauseating.
‘What a piece of work is a man! How Noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In Action, how like an Angel, in apprehension, how like a God! The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?’
There’s a lot of good, but the devs def screwed up with the whole shared breathing / eating tubing. But at least the playing ground is partially even, with other species also at risk of randomly dying from the simple act of food intake.
The most screwed up one is the octopus, for some reason that brains are below their mouths so the esophagus goes through their brain. If they eat something too big they can give themselves a concussion.
That sounds so stupid, I absolutely believe it.
That’s a very British documentary as well isn’t it.
Lets just get a dead giraffe and cut it open in order to demonstrate something
That would never happen in the US there’d be too many complaints.
……what
Maybe in like the 50s lol
Best fact of the day!
Technology my dudes 🤙 if you remove our understanding of electricity and fire we go back to the stone age in less than a year.
The most but only need one gets nuclear and its all over. Stone age my ass.
Let’s say those things don’t go off. On the stone age, plants grew. Won’t be long now even they won’t no more.
Because these are good questions, I’ll answer some;
Physically weak
Humans are incredible long distance runners. We did a lot of hunting by “Chase it until it collapses”
9 months/15 years
Our brains take a loooooong time to mature, but it’s worth it. We can plan ahead without relying on survival instincts, and we keep making amazing discoveries like fire and clothes
We’re basically horror movie tropes
Idk about domesticating part
This means prehistoric humans persistence-hunting wolves is canonical to the crazyness2400verse.
It puts the lotion on (?)
And while dogs have been bred to be subservient, Cats CHOSE to associate with us, the little psychos.
I miss r/HFY
Great long distance walkers too. With some adaptation time, about anyone can walk about 30 km a day, for weeks. For proof, the tens of thousands of people of all fitness levels walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage every year.
Proud to say I accomplished that! My dad trained a fair bit. I did like 1 10km walk the week before we started, and I finished the 800kms with no real dramas, except the first day which was a massive climb. After 5-6 days my body was totally accustomed to the task at hand.
(Super irrelevant to the post but it was an awesome experience and I would advocate anyone to undertake it, regardless of your thoughts on religion. I am not religious but did find it spiritual in a way. I did it about 6 years ago and still think about it every week.)
Started with Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Roncesvalles? Yeah, it’s a bit silly to start with the biggest climb of the way, but I know many people do to start from France.
No I cannot, never again!
You know you want to start a new way.
and evolution isnt supposed to be perfect. we were not carefully designed.
People think of evolution as needing A+ to pass, when C- is enough.
Heck, D- is. “Did it live long enough to produce offspring? Good enough!”
I tough you need a minimum grade of C- to pass
D- has always meant barely passing to me. You got more than 50%! Depends on who’s doing the grading.
It depends on the school.
Weren’t designed at all in in fact.
What a great argument against intelligent design and a resounding endorsement of Evolutionary Theory.
IYou can say that ID is Bout making something “good enough” in the same way evolution doesn’t select for perfection.
(I am not s creationist. There are plenty of other reasons to reject it.)
We spec’d for stamina, which turned out to be a hard counter to the current meta. We also have a flexible diet, fine motor control, excellent heat regulation, intricate vocalizations, and arguably best-in-class intelligence (although neanderthals did have larger brains, and other apes have better working memory).
But we are suffering from our success really. We were able to dominate even with an unoptimized build. So we have things like an appendix and other vestigial structures. Our spines are serviceable for bipedalism but are prone to developing issues and stress points. And our teeth don’t last nearly as long as much of the rest of our body without frequent external maintenance. And our young take a very long time to develop, to the point the actual birth happens basically as late as possible without being a guaranteed death sentence for the mother rather than when the child is ready for the world. Also, humans have a tremendously high ratio of penis to total body mass among primates, making you wonder what kind of freak was behind our character creation.
…mother fucker… we were built buy a fucking neckbeard incel…weren’t we?
That’s actually a very accurate description of the Christian God
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere the appendix actually functions as backup storage for gut microbes.
I think thats a thesis that hasn’t been properly peer reviewed (though it does have some clinical evidence), which is to say its not widely accepted as a reason for it to exist (but that that may be changing).
Interesting, thank you for clarifying.
Anon is a fucking retard
Nona is a drater
Tools.
>developes precise eyes
>doesn’t know where to put the blood vessels
>“fuck it, we’ll put them in front of the receptors”
>blood vessels always visible
>“we’ll fix it in post”
>actually works out
>MFW they have to add a blind spot for vessel/nerve managementYou mean running the wires in front of the screen isn’t the best design??
You mean image sensor, not screen?
I suppose camera would be a closer equivalent, yeah. Although the “display” is our eyes themselves, so they both kinda work.
i mean, semantically if the world is the “screen” the optical nerve is the “image sensor” and the wires are the nerves/blood vessels.
It checks out.
Humans are great. We’re also shit about some things. We’re working on it. It remains to be seen whether we’ll get our stuff together before we wreck the planet thoroughly enough that it can’t support us in this current paradise mode, but it’s not because we are incapable. Our failures are failures of spirit, self-government and self-control, and good values, not failures of “fitness” or that this layout hasn’t been successful at getting us this far.
Omits that critical oxygen intake system overlaps with food intake system that can clog causing death. No redundancy on oxygen intake.
Lots of evidence for not-so-intelligent design.
evolution would just call you a bozo and say it’s a skill issue. So maybe it was intentional, because it would be funny.
Flexing on those other loser species with my opposable thumbs and ability throw stones
Which, incidentally is about as much intelligence as it takes to “make a difference”. Anon is here assuming you need an engineering degree to outsurvive a moose, when all it takes is “hey, if put bad potato underground many good potato come up later”.
You make it sound like discovering agriculture is child’s play. It probably was the brightest minds of the day who figured stuff like that out. It was revolutionary. The entire society had to be redesigned around growing enough good potato to get through a winter.
Sure, but it doesn’t take as much to keep doing it as it does to figure it out the first time, and both are way beyond moose level.
Plus you don’t have to be great at it. We sucked at figuring out why you can’t just keep doing underground potato in the same place forever and our first few millenia of attempts to solve it were mostly just throwing random crap in there with potato.
You’re really over estimating agriculture as a technology tree. It takes pretty much no thought to notice that the trash pile tends to grow the things you put in the trash pile, and from there it’s experimentation on what in the trash pile of food makes more food (realistically medicinal herbs) grow.
Agriculture was developed at least a few thousand years before stationary settlement.
the funny thing behind agriculture, is that the vast majority of modern foods we eat are selectively bred over the entire course of agrarian history.
Most of these grown foods today, simply didn’t exist.
THAT was the the true genius.
opposable thumbs to throw stones, big brain to throw shade
Also, this whole sweating system is actually very efficient water based cooling. Most land species don’t have anything that’s even close.
Once you see that evolution is like the laziest worker ever that wants to do nothing all day but needs the money, and natural selection as the boss that doesn’t give a shit and just gives him tasks and only cares if they are done. You will understand why things are the way they are.
“Why is the mop so moldy and disgusting?” Well because natural selection told evolution to mop the floors every day but never said to clean the mop, and the cleaning products are good enough to clean even when the mop is moldy, so there is no need to care about the moldiness of the mop.
Why did you mind go to moldy mops?
Bad experience?
Idk, just a good example since the mold can be thought of as mutations that are not wanted but don’t interfere with the survival of the species.
Amon is under the impression that humans are designed, so they’re not in the smarter half of humanity
