The Marvelous Machine

Serious Paul · Post by **Serious Paul** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 10:37 pm

So today as I watched someone else get their head cut open, and surgically repaired i marveled at the wonder that is the human body. Since 2000 I've seen people do things that a few years earlier I'd have sworn would have killed them dead. Since then I've seen people wrap several feet of their small intestine around their head and shoulders, consume their own "unit" not once but twice, saw people slashed every which but loose. Add in disease, sodomy, and mayhem...well I'm pretty impressed with how the body holds out.

This thread is dedicated to the amazing machine that is the human body.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:41 am

Somehow, I find your current avatar very fitting.

Eva · Post by **Eva** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:30 am

I don't see extreme things like you do, Paul, but even in my enchanted life I see things all the time that remind me that the body is an amazing machine. I usually say it out loud too.

I must admit, it's not just the human body. This morning my cat jumped on the two inches of kitchen counter that were open in front of the plate of wet food and started eating. Cat: 20 centimeters high. Kitchen counter: 1 meter. How in the hell does that cat know?

Tiny Deev · Post by **Tiny Deev** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:38 pm

The human body is an amazing machine, but its getting outdated already. Or actually, we're not using a lot of things anymore. Like, wisdom teeth, or the apendix, or galbladder. I wonder how long evolution will take to just stop creating these little things.

Salvation122 · Post by **Salvation122** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:59 pm

Tiny Deev wrote:The human body is an amazing machine, but its getting outdated already. Or actually, we're not using a lot of things anymore. Like, wisdom teeth, or the apendix, or galbladder. I wonder how long evolution will take to just stop creating these little things.

There's no (or extremely, extremely mild) selection pressure for those, so it's unlikely that we'll lose wisdom teeth or appendices until we've nearly undergone speciation anyway.