Submitted 3 weeks ago by Buage_@piefed.social to [deleted]
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The human body evolved for resilience: having a large number of bones provides redundancy, meaning that we can break many bones and still have at least one to spare.
It’s also partially a vestigial trait, as our ancestors needed to do a lot of boning in order for the species to survive - nowadays we don’t need to replenish our numbers as much.
That explains why no one would sleep with me. It’s not me, it’s just biology.
Oh, humans can have basically one bone.
They are horrible and agonizing conditions, perhaps similar to being slowly partially or totally mummified by your own body.
Ankylosing Spondylitis, Pfeiffer Syndrome, Klippel-Feil Syndrome, etc.
Imagine your bones all fusing together. You can’t bend, or maybe walk, move your jaw, or maybe even breathe.
I also vote for outside bone instead of inside bone.
Evolution isn’t a democracy but sure, freedom of speech
Alan Dean Foster wrote a scif novel called Nor Crystal Tears that was mainly from the pov of an alien insect species. The differences were explored in body structure and culture and the confusion when they run across these weird humans with their bones on the inside... and they made obscene noises with their flapping flesh things on their head.
🦀
Reject articulation; become dog biscuit
If he had just one bone then we wouldn’t rattle when we walk.
Imagine thinking we could walk with just one bone.
Pretty sure you wouldn’t be able to even imagine because nature would have wiped you out before developing that skill
People would be intentionally breaking bones, for “super-human” flexiblity.
There would be no need for muscles with only one bone
I didnt break my collarbone on purpose but I feel very bending, and much pain when I over stretch the ligament
I once met a person with Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva. Her bones were fusing together and over time she became more and more immobile. She’s probably dead now. I hope that answers your questions.
That’s horrible. In the end, did she get chucked into her grave like a frisbee?
I heard they just propped her up in the foyer. She probably looked like the image on the right.
Humans are the only ape not to have a penis bone.
i feel cheated somehow.
I’m glad we don’t. Makes us more flexible so we can fuck in many different positions and angles. Could you imagine doing all of doggy style and missionary and cowgirl and reverse cowgirl and riding and all the other positions with a dick that can’t bend like a willow branch? Oof
Lol I’d be keeping a tally on how many I broke off. You don’t actually want that.
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That is a horrifyingly more elaborate piece of equipment than what I would have expected
Well that would just be a gingerbread man.
Is he made of house or is the house made of flesh?
If we had just one, it would be very hard to move.
Skill issue
Nah
After all, it’s not btwohundredsix.
Genius. Bumping so others see this
genius question. in the next chapter: why do we have 10¹² cells and not just one giant one?
single celled amoeba superiority?
We’d be doing the T-pose but unironically
But if you wrapped muscles around the rigid bone frame, we could probably still wriggle and flop about. We’d find a way, it’d be okay.
T pose with serifs on the T, probably
Like an unrendered humanoid character model in a video game
Human animal cracker
Yeah, we say bone not bany, what gives…
Capitalism in a fucking nutshell.
OK, show your work.
Smooth, efficient, and most of all calm
For one thing you couldn’t hear sounds or noises all that good withou free-floating inner ear bones
That’s your main concern?
There’s prolly other stuff but I’m no bonographer
It would be a lot more painful when drinking BoneHurtingJuice
Dog treat kinda bone
Why do I keep seeing the stuff I see in Instagram in lemmy?
Why are you subscribed to thise one and not to other communities? Why didnt you block this one?
Is an osteoblast posting this? They hate constantly getting their hard work removed by osteoclasts.
Cellular biology always reminds me how crazy animals are; how much time and how many generations animals must have taken to get here.
It’s a robust system: when a bone is fractured and not straightened before healing, it will eventually get close to the right shape.
Fraggle Rock helped me understand this part of cell bio (osteoclasts/blasts).
In the underground caverns of your skeleton, a perfect symbiotic ecosystem exists between two distinct groups: the Osteoblasts (the Doozers) and the Osteoclasts (the Fraggles). Just as in Fraggle Rock, their survival depends on a continuous cycle of building and eating, ensuring the structural integrity of their world
Like the industrious Doozers, osteoblasts are obsessed with construction.
The osteoclasts are the carefree Fraggles of this system. They roam the bone surface looking for old, damaged, or unnecessary structures to “snack” on.
No war but clast war
MONOBONE
I have one big bone right now. Hey, baby
Sometimes I have 207 bones, wink wink
Ok I do get why we aren’t just one big bone, but why don’t our palms and feet fuse?
Can you imagine stepping on a rock when every bone in your foot/ankle is fused?
Seems like a recipe for broken bones and never being able to run anywhere, ever.
No actually this was good I forgot about rocks and that we also bend our palms to grip things. Sometimes u get a brain fart
Those are the ones we move the most.
Because then they would be immobile without any joints between the bones. If they were one big bone, they’d essentially be a block of wood shaped like a hand/foot
I have but one bone to give!
Where would all the soft parts go?
minecraft skeleton
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why not none? Bones are a terrible affliction.
duckduckduck@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
bnone
Donkter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can add new bones to your body any time you please
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Are you hitting on me??
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I already have boneitis. If I could just get rid of my bones…
ignotum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m having my doctor remove mine,rather i’m trying to he’s not being very cooperative
socsa@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
OP’s mom doesn’t seem to mind
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck off with your bullshit again, octopus. We don’t have a damned choice.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been found out!
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m having flashbacks to creationist boner dinosaurs