• Majorllama
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    1662 months ago

    They are forgetting that TERRIBLE design choice where if you accidentally bite the inside of your cheek it swells up making it easier to bite it on accident again and again.

    • Flying Squid
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      42 months ago

      There’s also the weird decision to put a bunch of easily-bruised bones in your butt which would normally be used for a tail.

      I once had a creationist defend the coccyx as being necessary for keeping muscles together. That was fun.

  • moonlight
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    1112 months ago
    • separated genetalia from waste systems

    • removed body hair and baldness

    • fixed acne glitch

    • added ability to change biological sex, with default neutral configuration

    • rerouted laryngeal nerve

    • uterus lining is now reabsorbed automatically

    • reinforced spine and knees

    • simplified foot structure

    • adjusted mental pathways to better adapt to modern environment

  • kersploosh
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    612 months ago

    -cartilage in joints can regenerate

    -body can synthesize its own vitamin c

    Other species already do these things smh.

  • @Godnroc@lemmy.world
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    582 months ago
    • Eating and breathing pathways no longer intersect. This should prevent the bug when food could block the airway and result in death.
    • scops
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      252 months ago

      Yeah, it’s crazy to me that people believe we were “intelligently designed” when our food hole and breathing hole are so close that we can only use one at a time, and that our waste dumping grounds are right next to the amusement park.

      • @Sonor@lemmy.world
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        42 months ago

        you mean the slightly more muddy amusment park, that is next to the new, purprose built one, right?

    • @deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      This is actually a result of changes to our larynx and stuff, which allows us to make such a variety of sounds when speaking. In other animals (and human babies), the air and food tubes are physically separated at rest. But in humans, our epiglottis can’t properly keep things separate because our larynx is further down in our throat.

      So, I’m gonna have to deny this request on the grounds that it will necessarily break the speech feature, which many of our users depend on heavily.

      • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I remember reading humans can still “breathe” amniotic fluid once they get passed the gag reflex. I remember wondering how someone figured that out… Maybe it’s just a theory

  • @Meowstermind@slrpnk.net
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    452 months ago

    We need to have some process engineers look at the pregnancy and birthing process, there’s much room for improvement. Maybe take a totally new approach to it, it’s just not it.

    • @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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      122 months ago

      Just divide at a cellular level, nature has already solved this problem! Upstart life forms these days thinking they can reinvent the wheel.

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Agreed, that shits rough on people. Impacts of teeth and post-partum. Yet a funny thing there is that we can tell you down to the day you were impregnated by the growth of the fetus.

      Next person. Sir drink this stuff to make you shit your brains out and I’m going to shove my finger in your ass to see if we can get a scope of what your insides are like.

  • @cm0002@lemmy.world
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    412 months ago

    2.0? Bruh, humans are still on pre-v1 beta

    Frankly, I don’t know how anyone can look at the absolute shit show that is the human body and go “yup, this was totally intelligently designed”

    • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      82 months ago

      ironically we may well have been the only somewhat intelligently designed animal for a long time, since there’s a pretty good argument that we’re self-domesticated.

      so like, we’re not just a prerelease, we’re a fucking fork of a prerelease

    • Flying Squid
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      32 months ago

      Thank you, I came here to say the same thing. The problem isn’t that we don’t glow, it’s the fact that our eyes suck.

    • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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      11 month ago

      A lot of Bioluminiscence, but Infrared light as almost in any living be, which we can’t see without special devices.

      Structural weakness not only in the lower back, but also in the knees. The human being still has many reminists of an quadruped, as one of the younger species. He still has a way to be optimized as bipedo. Lower back and knees are still not optimized for this, apart of some other static and organic problems. We are still in phase beta.

      • @T156@lemmy.world
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        11 month ago

        A lot of Bioluminiscence, but Infrared light as almost in any living be, which we can’t see without special devices.

        It’s different from the blackbody radiation that body heat produces.

        Structural weakness not only in the lower back, but also in the knees. The human being still has many reminists of an quadruped, as one of the younger species. He still has a way to be optimized as bipedo. Lower back and knees are still not optimized for this, apart of some other static and organic problems. We are still in phase beta.

        Evolution doesn’t follow the rules of intelligent design anyhow. If they did, we would all be crabs.

        • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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          11 month ago

          Infrarojo is different from light visible only by wavelength and energy.

          Nothing to do with intelligent design, evolution is a self -regulating process due to environmental conditions. Given that the life of a human being is relatively long, naturally last generational evolutionary changes in a very complex organism, due to viable positive genetic variations, where a 99.99% is not, much longer until optimization. Somewhat more than 2 millon years isn’t enough for this, less with continuous changes in the environment and conditions. Simple organism with a short life cycle can optimize in days, but complex organism like humans can’t. Other beings have needed hundreds of millions of years for a perfect body, but with the price of already have the veto of evolving more. After perfection there can only be decay.

        • Flying Squid
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          32 months ago

          Once the fart leaves your body and glows, is it really you that’s glowing? We need some philosophers in here.

          • @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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            32 months ago

            Yes, I know, it bothered me as I decided to even answer, that’s why I also added the ‘long’ bit (as to imply a continuous flame) to blur the inaccuracy … but what can I say, the mental image of humans just going about their business with a constant flame out their ass just won.

            Still, you are completely correct.

            • Flying Squid
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              32 months ago

              I just wanted some philosophical discussion about whether a fart is still you once it is expelled.

              • @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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                Perhaps if the initial combustion is happening deep enough within ones asshole then the light that escapes though the flesh (and not the gaping hole directly) can be considered as bioluminescence?

                Or does it need to originate from within the cells?

                (I like the discission, we are scientists doing science.)

  • JackbyDev
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    322 months ago
    • Suffocation sensation is now tied to a lack of oxygen instead of an abundance of carbon dioxide.
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        It wouldn’t make carbon monoxide less poisonous to us, but depending on how sensitive the sensation of suffocation is made it would help us realize something is wrong and maybe even eliminate the need for carbon monoxide detectors.

        Carbon monoxide isn’t only dangerous because it’s not oxygen, but because it disrupts our blood’s normal process of absorbing oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide. My laymen understanding is that it sort of jams the door lol. As opposed to things like nitrogen which merely gets in the way but don’t disrupt the process.

        Imagine if instead of getting a headache and feeling sleepy when carbon monoxide was in your body you started to feel like you were holding your breath too long.

        • @psud@aussie.zone
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          31 month ago

          CO binds to haemoglobin (the oxygen carriers in your blood) just like O^2, but a little stronger. Effectively each molecule of CO puts one haemoglobin out of action, making you less able to transport oxygen out of your lungs

        • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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          32 months ago

          How about add a process that uses energy to convert co2 back to oxygen to increase the amount of time we can go without, plus enable weight loss via holding one’s breath.

          • JackbyDev
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            52 months ago

            I’m trying to make reasonable patches, not change the laws if physics.

            • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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              22 months ago

              Plants have a mechanism like that. Surely there’s gotta be some chemical path that can take co2 plus some form of stored energy we use to break off the o2. I don’t expect it to be efficient. Just useful in scenarios where oxygen is needed now, otherwise that stored energy is useless in the future.

              • KubeRoot
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                42 months ago

                The issue is, plants do that by combining water and CO2 into energetic compounds, with an oxygen byproduct - then they do the same our bodies do, which is breaking up those energetic compounds using oxygen to release the stored energy. And yes, plants consume oxygen and produce CO2 - they just do more of the opposite turning the excess into structural materials.

                This requires a supply of energy in a form that can be consumed (laws of physics prevent you doing it by cooling your body down), so you’d need to, for example, receive enough energy from sunlight to match your energy consumption, and generating oxygen through that would actively make you fatter.

                Oh, and as an addendum, we could maybe use less oxygen to break up those energetic compounds, similarly to how fuel can burn with reduced oxygen - but the fun thing about that is, that produces carbon monoxide, actual poison, so that’s also a no-go.

  • MrPasty
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    302 months ago

    The mosquito. By far the worst part of the human body!

    • @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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      32 months ago

      Don’t body-shame.
      (Unless it’s part of some shame kink, but otherwise the ‘tiny vampiric penis’ folk easily takes offence & can swarm you.)

      • @lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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        22 months ago

        The more we make fun—even pretend to make fun—of small penises, the more toxic the society we help create.

        Especially since all penis sizes are awesome.

        • @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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          21 month ago

          Completely factual & I totally agree.

          (But I maintain that the idea of vampires sucking blood via mosquito-penises is objectively funny.)

  • @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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    292 months ago

    Add new receptors to be able to feel wetness.
    This is it cold or wet thing we have going on is just crappy design.

  • @frezik@midwest.social
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    If teeth regenerate, do we have to constantly chew on things like rodents? Or is it an as-needed thing?

    • @reptar@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      I want to know at what wavelengths. Did I miss it?

      It bugs me that they say ‘it’s not infrared - it’s photons!’ (paraphrasing).

      • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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        52 months ago

        Its not clear to me either, but since they said visible, my guesses would be 680 nanometers or 490 nanometers, because, well, hydrogen.

        • @reptar@lemmy.world
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          32 months ago

          The paper (which is very short) said 500-700nm and referenced an older (1997) paper that reported on a bunch of UV and visual emitting living systems. I looked there but didn’t pinpoint an answer. It did mention that the emission doesn’t usually have sharp peaks (as the reason they trade spectral resolution for sensitivity). It seems like the emitting molecules are large, so it’s probably pretty broad.

          Anyway… that made me nice and sleepy.

  • @tiny@midwest.social
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    292 months ago

    I would have thought eating and breathing from the same hole would have been in this release 😞 guess I’ll just have to wait till 3.0

    • Nougat
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      That’s going to take some time, it’s a kernel bug.

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        We’ll start storing 3 or 4 copies of data, since 2 doesn’t seem to be enough. An off-site backup would also be nice. (this will only apply to new cells because see below)

        Also let’s add an option to re-enable telomerase. An option, because WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE. Some people probably still rely on “dying” behavior.