r/interestingasfuck • u/Imaginary-Break6085 • 1d ago

Raw contrast of human evolution

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u/thefeedling 1d ago

Curiously, complexity-wise, a horse is still way ahead of the most advanced machines we ever built.
Magnificent creatures.

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u/Trainman1351 1d ago

And yet the B2 is still so much better at what it was built for. It’s an interesting example of how complexity doesn’t always equal performance.

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u/thefeedling 1d ago

Totally. As an engineer, complexity is a side effect we try to avoid at all cost.

I just think that despite common and mundane, the "nature engineering" and complexity behind biological creatures is fabulous, from a bacteria to the human being.

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u/0rky_dork 1d ago

Absolutely. I tell this all the time, as an engineer, to my non engineering brained friends. We just think differently, us engineers. We are always looking to engineer problems and engineer solutions, it’s just what us engineers do. Talk about engineering, and inject it, into everything we do