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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge5/30/2018 10:06:27 pm PDT

re: #209 austin_blue

A Klein bottle is not something that is found in nature. Like a Mobius strip or an Escher drawing, it is a mathematical curiosity.

Now take a look at a human body. It is basically a torus, a doughnut, with a lot of internal and extended additions well away from from the doughnut, like arms, legs and a big ass brain. There is a hole at one end (your cake hole) and a hole at the end of the tube (your asshole).

Now here’s the thing. On an evolutionary scale, this an ancient, ancient group called Bilateria. They are at least 700 million years old, unless you are a YEC, and developed into worms, insects, fish, reptiles mammals, &c.

I really don’t know where I’m going with this. I just find science interesting. Hell, it’s been my life.

Oh, here’s a thing. Starfish were Bilateria originally but took a radical side-step, probably after a mass extinction event, to evolve into an open environmental niche that was advantageous to a new body form.

I love all the movies with people morphing into insects because of some DNA mixup—like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly. I’m always going: “You know they’re Protostomes and we’re Deuterostomes, right? That means that developmentally their mouth is our anus and vice-versa. You know that, right? What would Jeff look like halfway through this transition? Get to work, Special Effects!”