The extreme detour of the recurrent laryngeal nerves, about 4.6 metres (15 ft) in the case of giraffes,[32]: 74–75 has been cited as evidence of evolution, as the nerve's route would have been direct in the fish-like ancestors of modern tetrapods, traveling from the brain, past the heart, to the gills (as it does in modern fish).
Are those zipties? I fucking hate zipties whenever cleaning out old installs. They're just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.
I use velcro ties myself most of the times. If I absolutely have to use zipties, I leave then so loose that they're just guiding the cabling, not choking it.
Just today I cleaned out one +15 years old install and oh boy, multiple zipties there. Awful
Engineering isn’t so different from medical.
I think the funniest part of this post is the nightmares people are getting from zip ties.
There are a few flaws with that in reality. One is too much risk consolidation. Having every artery in the same place means that it's a very easy target for animals or other humans. Another is that it requires far more complexity to actually distribute resources isometricly relative to their need. It's also easier for disease to grow tumors in a giant mass of blood vessels since they are very homogenous. Another downside is that heat is not distributed evenly so it greatly increases the amount of energy that has to be spent on building auxiliary blood vessels which means the animal has to eat more to achieve the same reproductive success.
Life in reality is balancing many things. Thermal efficiency is a big one, material efficiency is another. Defensibility is a big one, and also genetic simplicity is another. Your body is procedurally generated, not created from a blueprint really. Cells create structure via functional logic in large part, although there are hox genes which encode some basic directionality and relative spatial cell differentiation based on its neighbors and the proteins they are presenting on their membranes.
In other words your body is generated more like a Minecraft world and creating very clean wiring and tubing even if there was pressure for it, would be something that would require a ton of genetic complexity. More complexity means that every single cell has to copy these extra hundreds of genes whenever it copies it's DNA, which raises the overall thermal and nutrient cost linearly. This is the reason people are beautiful on the outside but on the inside look very strange. We do put many of our evolutionary resources into beauty but not in places where it will likely never be seen.
Cable bundles like that are not flexible enough to move properly without straining the cables. You have to do concentric twists for that F1/Aerospace quality cable management.
God wiring his new creation: .... oh yeah I need a cable for the heart ... oh yeah, I need a cable to power the lungs ... oh yeah, almost forgot, need a cable for the liver ... oh yeah, need a cable to control the legs ... oh yeah, need some sensor lines for the hands ... oh crap, wired the genital sensor lines wrong ... oh shit, no more room for the lines for the kidneys, maybe if I wire it this way ... shit, need more power lines for the stomach ... crap, need more sensor lines here ... shit, shit, shit, I need more power lines
Then you look up and unplug everything.
Cable comb and a vertebrae are literally the same thing. Prove me wrong.
Nah man that’s all good copper wire in there rip it out and sell it
Please. Tell Me those aren't zip ties though!
I'm currently wiring up a 32U power distribution and test rack with about 1000 discrete wire connections, so I am feeling this to my core.
Going through a DC consolidation project now and the line techs are fucking clean. I'm slightly excited to overnight patch so I can make this place look good.
I can finally make this mess I walked into look good.
I think I had that CD back in 2008
Tommy John and Ulnar Nerve transit surgeries are what give me hope for our future cyborg selves
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