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1. smitty+Q7[view] [source] 2025-04-26 10:29:36
>>bondar+(OP)
> It’s odd for there to be such an easily-removable design flaw in the human body; evolution tends to remove them.

I wouldn't say so at all. Poor eyesight carries on smartly. Baldness. I enjoy both.

But an old story about the controller code for a surface-to-air missile comes to mind.

Someone looking at the memory allocator spots an obvious resource leak: "This code is going to crash."

The reply was that, while the point was theoretically valid, it was irrelevant, since the system itself would detonate long before resource exhaustion became an issue.

So too prostate cancer back in the day: war, famine and plague were keeping the lifespan well below the threshold of every man's time bomb.

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2. gavinr+F8[view] [source] 2025-04-26 10:42:24
>>smitty+Q7

  > It’s odd for there to be such an easily-removable design flaw in the human body; evolution tends to remove them.
Your appendix and gallbladder would like a word with you ;^)
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3. Qem+RA[view] [source] 2025-04-26 14:55:46
>>gavinr+F8
Also the intakes for trachea and esophagus being close to each other, causing chokes.
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