(November 2, 2017 at 10:51 am)Huggy74 Wrote:(November 2, 2017 at 10:37 am)Cyberman Wrote: No. It's the wrong question because it's a red herring. The apropos question is not how Astreja would correct the 'design', but why the 'design' should require correcting.
We must first figure out IF the design CAN be corrected to determine if there is even a flaw...
So once again, how would you improve the design?
(November 2, 2017 at 10:39 am)pocaracas Wrote: You see where your nose is?
And where your mouth is?
And then you see how their functions have to cross over to reach lungs and stomach?
The quick and dirty engineering solution is to simply swap the mouth with the nose... I assume some extra details should be tweaked.... perhaps putting the air intake right under the lower jaw? And have it be more of a wide chamber, instead of a tall one... and instead of sharing glands with the eyes, it would share with the mouth.
Extra point: no more sinus.
How does speech factor into this design?
It doesn't. Unless you are about to claim that sign language is not speech. And that would be a particularly scurvy position to take.
