Comment Re:Suboptimal (Score 1) 164
I don't mean to slag too hard, but... you're wrong.
Not that the human is sub-optimal. Amen to that, it's the only thing more cobbled together and less organized/rational than Microsoft source code, HOWEVER, there's a damn good reason that the light receptors are behind the retinal neurons. And had you taken the time to study receptor physiology in an even cursory way, you would have learned it. Quite simply, light receptors are far far far too energy greedy. To supply blood to the photo- receptors you could:
A) put blood vessels between the receptors and the retinal neurons which means making the receptor cells themselves longer (bad... signal degredation of graded potentional neurons)
B) put blood vessels in FRONT of the receptors (worse than putting the neurons there)
C) put the neurons in FRONT of the receptors (*dingdingding* we have a winner!)
Just to clear up a bad example of how human form is poorly designed.
Graud
Not that the human is sub-optimal. Amen to that, it's the only thing more cobbled together and less organized/rational than Microsoft source code, HOWEVER, there's a damn good reason that the light receptors are behind the retinal neurons. And had you taken the time to study receptor physiology in an even cursory way, you would have learned it. Quite simply, light receptors are far far far too energy greedy. To supply blood to the photo- receptors you could:
A) put blood vessels between the receptors and the retinal neurons which means making the receptor cells themselves longer (bad... signal degredation of graded potentional neurons)
B) put blood vessels in FRONT of the receptors (worse than putting the neurons there)
C) put the neurons in FRONT of the receptors (*dingdingding* we have a winner!)
Just to clear up a bad example of how human form is poorly designed.
Graud
