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[-] geekworking@lemmy.world 62 points 11 months ago

Diverse routes.

If all of your connections go through a single conduit/path, you have a single point of failure, just waiting to take out everything.

[-] Tvkan@feddit.de 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I know you're making a joke, but this really is a (ihmo very interesting) mess:

In this case this is just multiple single points of failure though, at least for the larger ones.

If you lose one of the big red ones in the middle (common carotid arteries) you'll have a major stroke killing essentially three quarters of one of your hemispheres.

There's another pair in the spine (vertebral arteries, not visible) which supply the posterior and lower parts of your brain, but they're also not redundant. Also sometimes, one's doing basically all of the heavy lifting, and sometimes the other one doesn't exist at all.

Also this is a simplification and many many variations exist.

[-] MarkCocks@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

My God I love well written informative comments on meme posts

[-] Tvkan@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago
[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

You tell me this after I painstakingly zip-tied everything?

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

Tell that to the nervous system

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

*chuckles nervously*

[-] zaubentrucker@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

At least it has shielding

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Look at the recurrent laryngeal nerve and try saying that again with a straight face.

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Better yet, look at what it's like in giraffes

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

The best argument against intelligent design.

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