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Fine tuning: a discussion for the rest of us mortals

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arachnophilia
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Message 10 of 83 (261156)
11-18-2005 9:51 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by coffee_addict
11-18-2005 5:26 PM

(1) Our fingers seem to be fine tuned to use a keyboard.
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Number 1 is backward. Our hands and fingers are not fine tuned to use the keyboard. We designed the keyboard such that it is comfortable to a certain level for us to type.
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ask a secretary. besides, remember these?
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why would we need a better keyboard if this argument were true? why would people get carpal tunnel syndrome? {edit}also, it takes two hands to type, one to punch numbers, and one to use a mouse. if we were designed to use a computer properly, we'd have at least three hands. i'm sure fps gamers are very familiar with this principle.{/edit}
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(2) Tall skyscrapers in large metropolitan areas have fine tuned the regions to not allow any tornado to form.
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Number 2 is just dumb. Why would you want to build a big city right in the middle of tornado valley? I have often heard the argument that you can't have a tornado in a city because those buildings just won't allow the wind to gain enough energy to form into a tornado. Again, it's just stupid to think that tornados didn't exist before the modern era.
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i'm not possitive, but i think this pattently false. for one, skycrapers tend to create a wind tunnel effect. you just need the low-pressue/high pressure difference to make a tornado. during wilma down here, ft laudy actually had some SEVERE damage, which seemed to have been cause by tornados related to the hurricane. (hurricanes often spawn tornados, believe it or not. the tornados tend to be more dangerous)
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(3) My mouth seems to be fine tuned to perform oral sex on David.
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Number 3 is again just stupid. You make the best with what you have. There's no hidden meaning or design behind it. It's there. It works. You use it.
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actually, better oral sex could be (well, IS) a factor of sexual selection.
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This message has been edited by arachnophilia, 11-18-2005 09:57 PM
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11-18-2005 10:49 PM 		Reply to: Message 12 by RAZD
11-18-2005 9:58 PM

well, yeah. hit a key on a typewriter and the key next to it too fast in succession and see what happens.
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11-19-2005 12:25 AM 		Reply to: Message 16 by randman
11-19-2005 12:09 AM

Re: other keyboards
i don't see how. one of the op's assertions was that the fingers are perfectly designed for keyboard usage -- if there are BETTER keyboards, it kind of hampers that point.
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