Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Tardigrade kick
I've been on a tardigrade kick this week. Focusing on organizations and people and critters who find ways to survive periods of droughts and storms and witch hunts and lunacy. Tardigrades have found the ideal physical solution. No other animal comes close.
All of this thinking ultimately converges back to Trinity House, the defender of true beacons and true science, which has lasted 500 years without losing its original PURPOSE. How did they do it? How can we replicate?
Tardigrades show us a dramatically different way of dealing with life, a different way of accomplishing the same PURPOSES.
They resemble insects and vertebrates in one way. They have a distinct and fairly complex brain, and a pair of bilateral nerve cords running in parallel, tied by crossover bridges at intervals. Insect nerve systems look about the same, and vertebrates are the same except that we've bundled the parallel left and right cords inside one spinal conduit.
Aside from the nervous system, tardigrades are ENTIRELY different. They have six or eight "limbs", but the limbs aren't built with jointed bones and muscles. Insects and vertebrates have chains of joints with agonist vs antagonist muscle pairs for each joint. Tardigrades just have protrusions, pretty much pseudopods.
BUT: Those jointless and muscleless pods move the same way as vertebrate limbs. They paddle and walk and kick in a structured and synchronized and PURPOSEFUL way. The claws on the ends serve to dig and grab, just like insect or vertebrate claws.
LIFE IS PURPOSE.
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Poser model released at ShareCG.
BUT: Those jointless and muscleless pods move the same way as vertebrate limbs. They paddle and walk and kick in a structured and synchronized and PURPOSEFUL way. The claws on the ends serve to dig and grab, just like insect or vertebrate claws.
LIFE IS PURPOSE.
= = = = =
Poser model released at ShareCG.Labels: Grand Blueprint, Trinity House
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