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Looking at the images reminds me of when I started fixing cars. The more I learned about the nitty gritty, the more I wondered how it ever held together and wor
by richardatlarge 5y ago
Looking at the images reminds me of when I started fixing cars. The more I learned about the nitty gritty, the more I wondered how it ever held together and worked. It was a worry.
- SHAKEDECADE 5y agoI get flashbacks to the movie adaptation of Flatland (the newest one was the most colorful). The movies though don't hold a line segment to the book.
- dekhn 5y agoCars are very different from cells. With a car, effectively nothing lacks a function, and the functions are obvious and can be explained in a causal way. With cells, it's more like "10 billions things all happen at once in a way that works continuously" but it's hard to identify "cause", and especially hard to say "the purpose of this thing is to X", becuase it wasn't designed, but rather, evolved as part of a much larger system.
- richardatlarge 5y agoI didn’t see anybody suggesting cars and cells were alike.
- dekhn 5y agothe person I replied to said they looked at a picture and were reminded of cars "how could they possibly work"?