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herbw t1_ivcftpy wrote

Reply to comment by Applejuiceinthehall in TIL that most non-human primate infants actively use their hands to help themselves out of the birth canal. Human infants do not, but their grip strength is much higher during the hours immediately after they are born. by afeeney

Human reproduction is complex system. The pelves of PG woman will expand due to a substance which causes the cartilage of the pelvic bones to relax, so the birth canal widens. to allow easier deliveries. When a pelvis of a woman who has given birth to a child/children is found we can see that on post mortem. How we know it.

Gestating babies, and delivering them is very complex system & has many, many interesting events going on, too.

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herbw t1_ivcf1u6 wrote

Reply to comment by Frequent-Seaweed4 in TIL that most non-human primate infants actively use their hands to help themselves out of the birth canal. Human infants do not, but their grip strength is much higher during the hours immediately after they are born. by afeeney

Yes, babies have a stepping out reflex from very early on. We find that by holding them up, legs and feet down, and then moving them forward. Often we see 1 leg moving forward and then the next, and then back & forth. But hafta do it right.

Steppin Reflex:

https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/topic/default?id=newborn-reflexes-90-P02630#:~:text=Stepping%20reflex,reflex%20lasts%20about%202%20months.

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herbw t1_ivce90j wrote

Reply to TIL that most non-human primate infants actively use their hands to help themselves out of the birth canal. Human infants do not, but their grip strength is much higher during the hours immediately after they are born. by afeeney

Most peds specialists know of the grasp reflex of infants. We simply stroke their palms and they close thie fingers around our finger. It's a primitive reflex likely due to holdin onto Mom tightly enough not to fall. Most primate infants also have that.

When people get older and get senile, the grasp reflex re-emerges, as a sign of dementia. Bidie likely has it; and the Glabellar, meaning when you tell him not to blink, and tap the skin between the eyebrows over the nose, he will NOT be able to stop blinking.

Did that to my f. in law, and he blinked. I kept quiet about it. Then they began to cause me trouble and reported that.

Ya don't PO a medical professional. We have life, health and prognostic deep knowledge. and we know how to use it.

So wisdom to the sophomoric persons round here.

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herbw t1_itmi773 wrote

Reply to Ikea is trialing driverless truck deliveries in Texas. by idapitbwidiuatabip

"trialing" is a dreadful misnomer. They are "testing", rather.

Problems with driverless cars or computer decision makin which is linear, not Complex system, the vehicles are driving in. Innumerable problems can come up, unpredictable and only humans can solve those. Low traffic out in the boonies such as east/west across NV, are easy to do.

Until ya get to Sparks/reno. Then it all slows way down.

The problem is this, using vast amounts of data from cars and truck operating is simply too complex to solve/sort.

This is how it can be done, directly, testably, and clearly. No fuss, no muss, Expert systems based.

https://jochesh00.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/problem-solving-for-self-driving-cars-a-model/

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herbw t1_itm7l1t wrote

Reply to A new UN report explores how to make human civilization safe from destruction. There’s a way to make civilization extinction-proof. But it won’t be easy. by mossadnik

Tsiolkovsky said it best. The earth is our womb, but we cannot stay there forever.

Extinction can ONLY be avoided by creating first an interplanetary and then interstellar settlements.

The rest is sheerest conjecture and likely as a snowball in hell. we get hit by a full ice age, that's the end. And it's coming.

Or a big asteroid, which we have neither the power nor the tech to divert, or block.

OR TN war which Putin is threatening now.

Get real. We get to the moon, set up manufacturing, self sustaining and growin habitats; and then we settle our system and then our spiral arm of the galaxy. It'd take about 25 yrs, well within the lives or most living today.

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herbw t1_itm2qwe wrote

Reply to Signatures of alien technology could be how humanity first finds extraterrestrial life by WallStreetDoesntBet

CART before the Horse. First you have to find a site, out of several trillions. Not an optimal search program.

The BEST is finding a very large planet, in the liquid water temps/zone, with unstable organic cmpds. & spectra, which ID such substances, clearly, and confirmably. Something which looks like Chlorophyll or the other pigments found from plants.

Then we look for the living systems creating that, if possible.

Then we go from there. It's not the Wizard of Oz ideas.

As Ellie's dad said in Contact " Slow steps, ellie, Slow steps."

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herbw t1_itld5l3 wrote

Reply to comment by jefrye in The way people speak in The Count of Monte Cristo. Can someone explain? by foxdna

well, well, well. Try calling someone you don't know very well, "du" in German, rather than the Sie and see what happens?

Sure you know some Romance languages, or say you do. I speak, read 7, including Deutsch & ancient pharoanic Khemetan. and can translate more simply by having a good lexicon . That comes in handy with Scandivanian lingo, esp. in genealogy. russki, as well.

The HUGE point you miss about Inglischen is that we have NO gender for not biological nouns. Romance languages, for port or door, have gender. And must match 100k's of nouns with articles and 100K's of adjectives with the gender. Which adds mistakes & processin time.

Nouns in English outside of biologically, have NO gender, makin Ingles 70% more efficient than all romance languages & some like Deutsch which do.

Put Dat fact in yer pipe and smoke it. Dat huge, vast efficiency is why English wins, globally.

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