Also they are all way too spaced out! Every good physics teacher should know that the objects should really be touching before impact to properly transmit the energy of the impact…

So do I understand correctly that a certain hox gene is activated in basically all cells which are in the “domain” of a certain vertebrae and they all activate some subset of homeobox genes which in combination with the original hox gene cause them to start turning into all the different parts associated with that vertebrae (so organs and other structures)?

Would we then need an entirely new hox gene to produce even a single gill? (I know you basically just laid out most of a response to this question.) Because I would assume although the exact point at which the development of our arms and legs begins is part of the whole hox gene “superstructure”, but couldn’t we ‘basically just’ highjack this same system and duplicate this gene to produce at least a single gill in the region where the current hox gene for our neck is expressed?

Long story short: what is the biggest reason why we can’t just hack into a later part of the sequence and continue on from there with what you said?

Or would your proposed plan also just end up like this in the final product and you laid it out like this because it’s already the most viable route into this mess? 😅

And that’s the thing:

Assuming it did, you couldn’t see it approach until it hit you because it’s moving at the speed of light! It could also have happened, but just super far away such that it will never reach us due to expansion between its origin point and us being faster than c!

Also just because the universe is frickin old doesn’t mean it is statistically bound to have happened. There are plenty of ways of making it even more astronomically unlikely but still possible…

Fine! I’ll use a second order polynomial to fit this instead. But that’s the last order I’m willing to go to!

Except most of those people who don’t know enough to recover most likely also use the default “all your data are belong to OneDrive” and thus won’t lose absolutely everything and no one group of livid people will both be livid enough and big enough at the same time for a lot to change…

Hmm but couldn’t we then also go even further and assume an idealized muscle car with an effective transmission to its wheels of 1:1 running at its optimal torque vs speed point and thus with a given speed of its wheels rotation for a given time?

Aka convert energy into miles (traveled) or something (with the choice of motor and wheel diameter and everything else standardized ofc.)?

Well I rather prefer 95% of my enemies be left as waste and only deal with 5% of them!

So is the lack of sp-hybridising and resultant ~120° angle a second layer of this joke? 🤔🙊

Just because you waste 80% of the food you get doesn’t mean you can’t still be twice as fast as everyone else at getting new food!

May they said it “twice” because they actually fluoresce under green light as well?

/s

If we already regularly ignore infinities in the self-energy of electrons and other divergent stuff what’s a little division by zero here or there?

Only if it meant more cocaine because it needs to be redone…

It’s a wheel, it’s supposed to turn over and over and over and infinitum!

/S (because it’s big sarcasm instead of small.)

I absolutely agree! Both should get degrees, because that would make temperatures finally make sense!

(I am aware that the degree symbol has something or other to do about not being absolute yada yada yada 😅)

Just as particle physicists measure everything in energy (eV to be precise…)

Mass? eV Energy? eV Distance? 1/eV Time? Guess what: 1/eV as well! This also means velocity has unit 1…

And the worst part: it turns out to be extremely useful!

So is that the “Zange”? Because you need to go from the things you are holding (the information, in “German”) to the hinge (the literal English translation) and back down again (actual German translation) to understand (aka grasp it)‽

For anyone else stumbling about this revelation: It very well wouldn’t be Unicode otherwise now, would it?

There’s a reason linguists and computer scientists sometimes get mental breakdowns over emoji because the know that those same emoji were on the same agenda taking up actual time as discussions about which ancient language or newly discovered grapheme/symbol/lexicogram/whatever should be added first/next. (Not saying emoji aren’t also tremendously important/good/what ever additions!!)

No don’t listen to them!

Keikaku means cake! (Muffin to be precise, because we got the muffin button!)

Welcome to Greece! No, not our modern Greece, the old timey write philosophical questions into the dirt with sticks and argue with your best homies about it kind of Greece!

Want to compute something? Hope you got all your steps in linear order so you don’t have to remember too much in between other steps!

/s (but not really so I totally am on your side, original formulations of math problems are a pain…)

I mean don’t we also sort of carry that same image (obviously not exactly, but sorta) in our genes?