It has organically grown with time.
Obligatory post of the giraffe’s recurrent laryngeal nerve taking a slight detour of 4.6m:
For anyone in dark mode: This image has a transparent background, it’s much more clear on a white(-ish) background.
Ah, yeah, crap.
Here’s a link to Wikipedia, which I think, adds a white background even in dark mode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe#/media/File%3AGiraffaRecurrEn.svg
(Well, unless you’re using a browser extension to modify the CSS…)
This is one of those great other parts of the body trying to catch up with an evolutionary change things, ha ha.
If only Jesus had installed some service loops and hot spares in me, in case of hardware failure. For “gods perfect creation” I sure have a lot of design oversights.
it’s actually pretty genius. industry couldn’t build something like this.
“Intelligent Design”
“Intelligent?! What kind of intelligence would place a sewage treatment plant right next door to an amusement park?!”
Diverse routes.
If all of your connections go through a single conduit/path, you have a single point of failure, just waiting to take out everything.
Risky click… I was half expecting a video of someone getting their cables ripped out.