• What are terrible design choices in the human body?
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[QUOTE='[Green];42587591']They're kind of necessary for reproduction though so what do you suggest as an alternative?[/QUOTE] That they be just like a gland inside the body instead of free-flying like usual.
[QUOTE=The golden;42587654]Human sperm dies at human body temperatures.[/QUOTE] Let's put it like this then. A terrible design choice was human sperm.
[QUOTE=Mastahamma;42587413]please realize that you'd just scratch your skin off subconsciously if it weren't for pain, and that would be the least of your problems remember all that knuckle cracking you do? yeah well say goodbye to your finger bones [editline]20th October 2013[/editline] you'd get shot by someone with a silenced gun and you wouldn't notice the massive hole in your guts until you'd start feeling light headed due to the bloodloss [editline]20th October 2013[/editline] you'd get into a car crash and wouldn't realize your ribcage has shattered into a million pieces[/QUOTE] I know it's useful, but at times, I wish I just didn't have to deal with pain at all. Like surgery, if they don't put enough lidocaine/other numbing medication via a needle, then you're gonna have quite a lot of pain during surgery cause you don't know if they did it right or not. My doctor sure didn't, and I had to have surgery twice causing even more pain. Maybe make pain not hurt like an absolute bitch? You know you got hurt, but it's not so bad that you can't even take it, but you still know somethings not right.
You get blisters on the bottom of your feet after extended periods of walking That's what they're MADE for! And they get blisters for doing their job.
[QUOTE=Tinter;42587738]Let's put it like this then. A terrible design choice was human sperm.[/QUOTE] Y'know, it would be interesting to see if animal sperm also requires a special temperature to survive. Or if at least mammals suffer from this same defect Screw this, I'm asking this to the first biologist I see, and just pass it as a work for college. And maybe actually write an essay about this. [QUOTE=ThatSwordGuy;42587743]You get blisters on the bottom of your feet after extended periods of walking That's what they're MADE for! And they get blisters for doing their job.[/QUOTE] Blame our own evolution. We weren't originally designed to walk on two legs. That's why our backs suffer so much. We adapted, but only partially. [editline]20th October 2013[/editline] Rather ironically, for such a defective evolution, we're the best endurance runners in the entire planet. Ain't life grand?
[QUOTE=Stonecycle;42587637]That they be just like a gland inside the body instead of free-flying like usual.[/QUOTE] Your sperm would die. And did you know that your balls loosen when they're too warm (to get away from your body) and tighten when they're cold (to get some of that good crotch warmth). Let me think... Acne Pit hair Ass hair Human child birth being so dangerous (four-legged animal child birth is much safer and less painful) Teeth that are so often not straight Periods Reproductive organs=Digestive organs Male nipples
When it comes to pain, I don't wish it would go away [i]entirely[/i] (Since it's a necessary indication of when our body is taking damage). However, I wish the pain threshold would decrease. Even stubbing your toe on something is a fucking tragedy.
[QUOTE='[Green];42587144'] By a large average girls have their first menstruation cycle at 12 years of age. That means that [I]technically,[/I] not optimally they can get pregnant and have a kid before they turn 13. That is a [U]terrible[/U] fucking design choice right there. How about you either let them grow properly and THEN get the fertilizing happening or don't make them grow at all and put the energy it takes to grow into raising and nurturing? Pick one and stick to it, don't try to multitask, that's just retarded and useless. Nobody in their right mind obviously gets a 12-year old pregnant but the fact that it's even possible shows how terrible work Mr. Evolution has done in certain areas.[/QUOTE] Humans used to not live nearly as long as they do now. From a point of view in the wild without society, I think it makes sense that nature would have fertility start around 12.
Well, there's the obvious ones that have already been mentioned such as wisdom teeth and the appendix. I also hate how your semen has to be stored outside of the rest of your body in a place that's UNGODLY sensitive to pain. But my biggest annoyance from an evolutionary standpoint is social awkwardness in its entirety. Why is this a thing? It serves NO purpose, no matter how hard I think about it.
The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve. It's the nerve that links your brain to your voice box, but it has a weird path. Instead of going from your brain directly to your larynx, it go down to your heart, hooks around your aorta, and goes back up to your larynx. [editline]20th October 2013[/editline] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve[/url]
Almost every single post in this thread has a legitimate evolutionary and useful reason. Maybe I'm the one misunderstanding the OP's title, but can someone explain to me what it's asking for? [editline]21st October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;42588214]Well, there's the obvious ones that have already been mentioned such as wisdom teeth and the appendix. I also hate how your semen has to be stored outside of the rest of your body in a place that's UNGODLY sensitive to pain. But my biggest annoyance from an evolutionary standpoint is social awkwardness in its entirety. Why is this a thing? It serves NO purpose, no matter how hard I think about it.[/QUOTE] Like this one. It's because the temperatures outside of the body are more suitable for producing sperm.
[QUOTE=ThatSwordGuy;42587743]You get blisters on the bottom of your feet after extended periods of walking That's what they're MADE for! And they get blisters for doing their job.[/QUOTE] Strangely enough; I can't remember getting blisters on my feet from walking. And I walked a lot in forests. On the note of complaining about human anatomy: knees fucking suck.
[QUOTE=Harpie;42588278] Like this one. It's because the temperatures outside of the body are more suitable for producing sperm.[/QUOTE] So you move it outside of the body because it's more suitable but at the same make it incredibly sensitive to any stimuli?
[QUOTE=Harpie;42588278]Almost every single post in this thread has a legitimate evolutionary and useful reason. Maybe I'm the one misunderstanding the OP's title, but can someone explain to me what it's asking for? .[/QUOTE] I think we're disreguarding evolution and talking about what's bad [I]now[/I]. The biggest problem is that we can't manualy interfer with stuff. we can't decide when we want to ovulate or how fast our metabolism or heart rate is. also humans have realy shit knees. Like you can't realy put all your weight on your legs whilst they're bent because... knees are bad.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;42588338]So you move it outside of the body because it's more suitable but at the same make it incredibly sensitive to any stimuli?[/QUOTE] I think the reason of this is because it's the body telling you "If you keep doing that, your gonna be unable to reproduce!'
[QUOTE=The Jack;42588434] The biggest problem is that we can't manualy interfer with stuff. we can't decide when we want to ovulate or how fast our metabolism or heart rate is. [/QUOTE] To be fair, that's the kind of stuff we really can't afford to mess up on.
[QUOTE=The Jack;42588434]also humans have realy shit knees. Like you can't realy put all your weight on your legs whilst they're bent because... knees are bad.[/QUOTE] Imagine something falling in your arms with knees. You legs will act like a shock absorber. Now image without knees; legs perfectly straight. Those bones are gonna rub into each other and likely fracture or bend. [editline]20th October 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;42588478]To be fair, that's the kind of stuff we really can't afford to mess up on.[/QUOTE] 'Whoops, I think I shouldn't told my heart to stop beating.'
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;42588478]To be fair, that's the kind of stuff we really can't afford to mess up on.[/QUOTE] You think heart rate is serious yet you think reproduction isn't as important?
why is pooping the most annoying, untimely bodily function
[QUOTE=Harpie;42588510]You think heart rate is serious yet you think reproduction isn't as important?[/QUOTE] Let's all reproduce asexually. Then bitch about that we can't have sex.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;42588338]So you move it outside of the body because it's more suitable but at the same make it incredibly sensitive to any stimuli?[/QUOTE] Obviously, this is caused by a nerve emerging form the end of your spine which also handles pleasure sensations and is linked to your anus as well. The reasons for it's incredible sensitivity are because they're such important goods, your body needs a firm warning that shit's wrong there whenever something occurs. With less important things, like the point of your chin, the sensitivity is much lower. Pleasure sensations are there to cause ejaculations and, quite simply, for pleasure. As humans are beings of emotion, our body takes over these factors as well.
[QUOTE=gaminji;42588521]why is pooping the most annoying, untimely bodily function[/QUOTE] Seems like every other animal in existence makes it the easiest task to be done in everything while we have to sit on the toilet, making it harder then it is.
[QUOTE=The Jack;42588434] also humans have realy shit knees. Like you can't realy put all your weight on your legs whilst they're bent because... knees are bad.[/QUOTE] Your knees are only as shit as the muscles supporting them, which of course can only go so far. Street builders who are on their knees a lot get knee problems because... your body isn't built to do such a thing for the larger part of it's life.
How has nobody said the nose? Sure, smelling is great, and tasting things is great. Hell, I even appreciate an alternate breathing passage. But anyone who suffers from seasonal or indoor allergies will understand just how much of a pain in the ass it can be. Sure, allergy medication exists, but the good stuff will daze you rather well, and the over the counter stuff is iffy as far as how well it works. We should create filters... for our noses.
[QUOTE=Zzztops;42588620]How has nobody said the nose? Sure, smelling is great, and tasting things is great. Hell, I even appreciate an alternate breathing passage. But anyone who suffers from seasonal or indoor allergies will understand just how much of a pain in the ass it can be. Sure, allergy medication exists, but the good stuff will daze you rather well, and the over the counter stuff is iffy as far as how well it works. We should create filters... for our noses.[/QUOTE] Just wear a gas mask all the time. everyone else on facepunch does it. Also fedoras.
[QUOTE=Zzztops;42588620]How has nobody said the nose? Sure, smelling is great, and tasting things is great. Hell, I even appreciate an alternate breathing passage. But anyone who suffers from seasonal or indoor allergies will understand just how much of a pain in the ass it can be. Sure, allergy medication exists, but the good stuff will daze you rather well, and the over the counter stuff is iffy as far as how well it works. We should create filters... for our noses.[/QUOTE] The allergens also enter your body through your mouth, eyes and whatnot. I'd appreciate a mad scientist working on a way to re-code the behavior of your immune system more than one who devises a filter for your nasal cavities.
Good point, we should just live in full body bio suits until then.
There aren't any.
[QUOTE=Pvt Anderson;42587808] Human child birth being so dangerous (four-legged animal child birth is much safer and less painful) [/QUOTE] Once again, evolution. Chimpanzees don't have any difficulty at giving birth, either. When our ancestors became bipeds, our pelvis had to adapt to the sudden new motion mechanics. However, it also had to reach a "common ground" between bipedal locomotion and the ability to deliver children without crippling them. These changes weren't inmediate, either, with the pelvic structure in women changing constantly over millions of years. The result is an structure that is more useful for walking than for giving birth. Then again, evolution doesn't follows a determined path. It just takes whatever works better now, and adapts it. I'm not actually an expert on this issue, though. I just happen to own a National Geographic magazine from 2006, which has an interesting article on the disadvantages of bipedal locomotion. Is in spanish, but I'll be happy to scan and upload it if anyone is interesed, and maybe even try to translate it.
[QUOTE=T553412;42588785]Once again, evolution. Chimpanzees don't have any difficulty at giving birth, either. When our ancestors became bipeds, our pelvis had to adapt to the sudden new motion mechanics. However, it also had to reach a "common ground" between bipedal locomotion and the ability to deliver children without crippling them. These changes weren't inmediate, either, with the pelvic structure in women changing constantly over millions of years. The result is an structure that is more useful for walking than for giving birth. Then again, evolution doesn't follows a determined path. It just takes whatever works better now, and adapts it. I'm not actually an expert on this issue, though. I just happen to own a National Geographic magazine from 2006, which has an interesting article on the disadvantages of bipedal locomotion. Is in spanish, but I'll be happy to scan and upload it if anyone is interesed, and maybe even try to translate it.[/QUOTE] If you could either translate this or perhaps find a link to an English version of the article I would greatly appreciate that.
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