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[scottobear]

Mysteries surround us daily.

I like to pick out one or two unexplained things every day, and try to find a solution to it... or, barring that, make up a myth about how it came to be that way.

I'm not sure what today's mystery is yet. perhaps that's a mystery in and of itself.

I'm wondering why we have two of one sort of body part.... like nostrils. why two? did we need "stereophonic scent" at one point? Two eyes give us binocular vision, and two ears make it so that pinpointing a sound works well, via triangulation. Why two lungs, and two kidneys, but only one heart and liver?

Tonight, I'm getting out of work early to see Star Wars with the goon squad at work, as well as a few misc folk... I hope baby Boba isn't as annoying as baby Darth was.

Comments

[ldy.livejournal.com]

*waves*

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/november10/smell-1110.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s198395.htm

*flutters off*

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

What informative links! thankee! :) Now, on to a fresh mystery.

[wickenden.livejournal.com]

Good quesitons. I've thought that redundancy (one plugged nostril) and bi-lateral symmetry are possible reasons.

Two nipples, two nuts...

[lunalyn.livejournal.com]

Thats..... deep.

I'm guessing, but I think the reason for the double nostril is a dual brain sensor... If one isn't working, the other might be.

Did you know that how symmetrical our two halves are is how our brains optically perceive "beauty"?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

really? I sort of lean to asymmetrical faces, to a degree... though I do like balance in architecture.

[dexterx.livejournal.com]

It has a lot to do with motion and movement and energy - with the kidneys we are carrying a spares, liver we only want one toxic treatment plant, the two brain hemispheres share parts of various functions, two lungs are for better efficiency and spares, one heart is your master pump but has four chambers.

I think the design is pretty neat and am more than satisfied with my make and model even though the mileage is getting high.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I hear you there... though I wouldn't mind getitng a spinal upgrade. The design on mine isn't up to standards with the rest.

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[dexterx.livejournal.com]

Perhaps servants would be more inorder for the treatment of your condition - "though it is so hard to find good help these days"

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yeah, look what happened with scaramunga's tattoo!

evolution

[fantasticprizes.livejournal.com]

maybe it is just the evolutionary stage we are at? maybe the revolution in bioscience (and androids)will allow us to fine tune the configuration? which is still part of our evolution. tools, techonlogy etc.