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Obligatory post of the giraffe’s recurrent laryngeal nerve taking a slight detour of 4.6m:
For anyone in dark mode: This image has a transparent background, it’s much more clear on a white(-ish) background.
Ah, yeah, crap.
Here’s a link to Wikipedia, which I think, adds a white background even in dark mode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe#/media/File%3AGiraffaRecurrEn.svg
(Well, unless you’re using a browser extension to modify the CSS…)
This is one of those great other parts of the body trying to catch up with an evolutionary change things, ha ha.
Did you mean to include an image?
I had included an image, but it was an SVG. I was wondering, if that would show up on everyone’s devices. I’ve swapped it for the PNG version now.
It has organically grown with time.
If only Jesus had installed some service loops and hot spares in me, in case of hardware failure. For “gods perfect creation” I sure have a lot of design oversights.
“Intelligent Design”
“Intelligent?! What kind of intelligence would place a sewage treatment plant right next door to an amusement park?!”
Risky click… I was half expecting a video of someone getting their cables ripped out.
it’s actually pretty genius. industry couldn’t build something like this.
Through the ass
Diverse routes.
If all of your connections go through a single conduit/path, you have a single point of failure, just waiting to take out everything.
I know you’re making a joke, but this really is a (ihmo very interesting) mess:
In this case this is just multiple single points of failure though, at least for the larger ones.
If you lose one of the big red ones in the middle (common carotid arteries) you’ll have a major stroke killing essentially three quarters of one of your hemispheres.
There’s another pair in the spine (vertebral arteries, not visible) which supply the posterior and lower parts of your brain, but they’re also not redundant. Also sometimes, one’s doing basically all of the heavy lifting, and sometimes the other one doesn’t exist at all.
Also this is a simplification and many many variations exist.
