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[–] geekworking 62 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Diverse routes.

If all of your connections go through a single conduit/path, you have a single point of failure, just waiting to take out everything.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know you're making a joke, but this really is a (ihmo very interesting) mess:

In this case this is just multiple single points of failure though, at least for the larger ones.

If you lose one of the big red ones in the middle (common carotid arteries) you'll have a major stroke killing essentially three quarters of one of your hemispheres.

There's another pair in the spine (vertebral arteries, not visible) which supply the posterior and lower parts of your brain, but they're also not redundant. Also sometimes, one's doing basically all of the heavy lifting, and sometimes the other one doesn't exist at all.

Also this is a simplification and many many variations exist.

[–] MarkCocks 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My God I love well written informative comments on meme posts

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tell that to the nervous system

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

*chuckles nervously*

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

At least it has shielding

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You tell me this after I painstakingly zip-tied everything?

[–] SpaceNoodle 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at the recurrent laryngeal nerve and try saying that again with a straight face.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better yet, look at what it's like in giraffes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The best argument against intelligent design.