(October 28, 2015 at 6:28 am)Quantum Wrote:(October 28, 2015 at 6:24 am)ignoramus Wrote: I know where you're coming from Pooley.
The answer is "Nature is our blind designer".
She designs squillions of silly things that don't work. What happens? They die off.
Whenever I see a cute squirrel hopping from branch to branch, I have to think of the millions of poor proto-squirrels who had to fall off and break their necks in order for today's optimized squirrels to evolve. It's heartbreaking, really.
I had one of those last year at the Nature Preserve, still holding the branch the strength of which he misjudged. Fell fifty or more feet to his death. Not for the squeamish: