Design flaws in the human body

Design flaws in the human body

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Pixelpeep 135

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8,600 posts

149 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Been thinking, few things on our bodies are not really fit for purpose and could be described as a design flaw.

I'll start with Hernias - they seem incredibly common, why can't the lining be just that little bit thicker?

Any others?

campionissimo

583 posts

131 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Oh where to start. Stuff not wearing out. Muscles and tendons not tearing. Meniscii not tearing. No bone spur growth. Chainsaw proof skin. A brain that isnt susceptible to PTSD. Good eyesight and hearing with no degradation over time. And a third arm for when you're trying to do stuff/ladies.

Pixelpeep 135

Original Poster:

8,600 posts

149 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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campionissimo said:
Oh where to start. Stuff not wearing out. Muscles and tendons not tearing. Meniscii not tearing. No bone spur growth. Chainsaw proof skin. A brain that isnt susceptible to PTSD. Good eyesight and hearing with no degradation over time. And a third arm for when you're trying to do stuff/ladies.
I think a lot of those could be considered 'upgrades' rather than bug fixes laugh

oh, and that 3rd arm thing.... Genius biggrin

SturdyHSV

10,228 posts

174 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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The lens in your eye hardens over time, becoming less flexible and thus limiting your ability to focus on things close up.

Hence why everyone gets to 40 and decides menu fonts are too small, but of course it's because the lighting is bad and the menu just has to be held at arm's length hehe

Mr Pointy

11,865 posts

166 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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None of this wearing out stuff is a design flaw - we're just living too long.

Mandat

4,004 posts

245 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Putting the leisure area next to the sewage works must surely be an inherent design flaw?

williamp

19,567 posts

280 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Boobs as a distraction..

Dave.

7,520 posts

260 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Mr Pointy said:
None of this wearing out stuff is a design flaw - we're just living too long.
This ^


mcelliott

8,984 posts

188 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Things fail very often cos we don't use the body for what it was designed for, such is the sedatory western life style.

bigandclever

13,951 posts

245 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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I think if we had a choice we wouldn't use a spine that's been designed to hang things from. And our feet are unnecessarily complex for what we use them for.

mikey_b

2,147 posts

52 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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SturdyHSV said:
The lens in your eye hardens over time, becoming less flexible and thus limiting your ability to focus on things close up.

Hence why everyone gets to 40 and decides menu fonts are too small, but of course it's because the lighting is bad and the menu just has to be held at arm's length hehe
One of the few advantages of being short-sighted is that you can simply remove your glasses, and the small stuff like writing on a menu snaps back into focus. Since you need your glasses for anything further than arms-length though, you tend to always have them on, whereas people who need glasses only for reading seem to forget them a lot more often.

Doofus

28,545 posts

180 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Our shoulders don't fold out of the way when lying down.

RizzoTheRat

26,031 posts

199 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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If you were designing a city you wouldn't put the pleasure park next to the sewage works would you?

bloomen

7,463 posts

166 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Balls. I don't care if I'm infertile from the heat. They shouldn't be out there.

Lighter skin colours. I find it genuinely incredible that if it's exposed to that big thing in the sky for more than a few minutes it will be seriously damaged. A few unbroken hours and it's a medical emergency.

I get the vitamin D thing but there's got to be a middle ground somewhere.

Other than that I'm impressed anyone emerges from their mother's ring piece with any type of functionality considering how much there is to go wrong.

Pixelpeep 135

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8,600 posts

149 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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bloomen said:
I'm impressed anyone emerges from their mother's ring piece
um... i think you might need to do some googling biggrin

bloomen

7,463 posts

166 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Pixelpeep 135 said:
um... i think you might need to do some googling biggrin
I've done my research. I have the facts. They are from the internet.

Dogwatch

6,274 posts

229 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Surely these should be classified as evolution flaws rather than 'design' flaws? Some of the problems we encounter today stem from evolutionary responses to problems of the day with some compromises as trade-offs.
As for placing the waste disposal system adjacent to, and sharing parts with, the reproductive system well it does sort of work which is all that nature requires. smile

bloomen

7,463 posts

166 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Dogwatch said:
Surely these should be classified as evolution flaws rather than 'design' flaws?
Evolution is still design, either self imposed or the fault of the original design to allow it. It's not on.

Portofino

4,506 posts

198 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Main design flaw is that we stand up, which results in a host of problems in our spine.

Castrol for a knave

5,301 posts

98 months

Monday 31st January 2022
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Definitely a revision for the Mk2 human body - the way the recurrent laryngeal nerve connects the brain to the larynx, via three times around the heart and meanders back again.