Evolution for fundamentalists

[cowiz]

You missed "hernias"

"You can't look at the ways we're the same as the apes, you have to look at the way we're different! That's the parts that show that God has blessed Man with a special, divine, spark!"

Apes don't choke?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Apes don't choke?

That was Kirk Cameron speaking, so I won't try to inject any logic in it.

[cowiz]

Apes don't choke?

That was Kirk Cameron speaking, so I won't try to inject any logic in it.

Injecting a banana works wonders, especially if you inject it in the right place.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Apes don't choke?

That was Kirk Cameron speaking, so I won't try to inject any logic in it.

Injecting a banana works wonders, especially if you inject it in the right place.

I think he's had a Ham injection more than once, but that he took Comfort in the Lord.

[Tero]

OK, here's your anus, the tilted planet. The two poles are dark and light for a long time. The other two extremes of the orbit there are regular days.
http://tinyplanetsblog.com/science/astr ... ted-planet

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/uranus.html

Okay, that's one case. The "axis pointed at the Sun" is another, right? In that one the, say, Southern Hemisphere, is always pointed at the Sun, and the Northern Hemisphere is always pointed away. I wonder if that kind of planet could hold an atmosphere.

[Tero]

Well, no problem there. It does not have an atmosphere like ours, and it is too cold:

Uranus's atmosphere, while similar to Jupiter and Saturn's in its primary composition of hydrogen and helium, contains more "ices" such as water, ammonia and methane, along with traces of hydrocarbons.[12] It is the coldest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System, with a minimum temperature of 49 K (−224 °C).

Plus methane.
Too cold for life.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well, yeah. But what about a rocky planet, in the Goldilocks Zone?

[Tero]

Some silicon dioxide on the surface?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Some silicon dioxide on the surface?

I'm thinking that a planet with the South Pole always facing the Sun would get very hot on that side, and rather cold on the other. Would there be enough mixing of atmosphere?

[Tero]

Maybe not. You would get huge glaciers in one pole in any case.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Maybe not. You would get huge glaciers in one pole in any case.

Hmmmm, say 200+ F at the "near" pole and -200 F at the "far" pole. Weather patterns would be "interesting".

[Tero]

The pole with land on it would still collect ice, if the other pole has no land. Just like today.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The pole with land on it would still collect ice, if the other pole has no land. Just like today.

No arguing that point. Arguing a different one. But I won't say what that point is, that would just spoil things.

[mistermack]

Apes don't choke?

I can't be bothered to read up on it, so I'll just go from a not very reliable memory.

But as far as I remember, no, apes don't choke.

We humans have what's called a descended larynx, which apes don't have. The larynx is the end of the wind pipe.
It evolved so that we can talk better. It sits right alongside the hole that our food goes down, ( can't remember the name ) so we choke pretty easily.
The larynx of an ape is higher up, so they are very unlikely to choke.

That's why humans often choke on their own vomit if they become unconscious, but apes virtually never do. So if you come across an unconscious chimp, no need to check the airway.

Interestingly, newborn babies have the ape arrangement, but the larynx gradually descends as the baby develops. ( Again, not checked, it's just how I remember it ).