• Wogi@lemmy.world
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        I dunno. Organic space suit implies that the nervous system could survive independently of it. But it can’t.

        You need to get blood to the brain, so you need a heart. That blood needs oxygen so you need lungs. You need some way of getting energy to these systems, so you need a digestive system, which starts at your lips and forms a frighteningly long tunnel that ends at your butt. Now you’re introducing weird shit to your blood beyond just oxygen so you need a few systems to keep the blood clean. Now you’ve got all kinds of different needs and so you have other orgasms to keep those organs alive and functioning. Oh and because your blood is also alive, it dies and you need a way to make more. Quite efficiently this is done in your bones. But for the sake of argument let’s say this is possible without the bones themselves.

        I’d say the space suit starts at the immune system, and ends at the skin, which is really an extension of the immune system but there’s muscle in there. You could, theoretically, survive without any muscle or skin, or even an immune system in a clean environment, as long as you had a way to obtain calories and Oxygen independently. Though going to the bathroom would be hard.

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          You can’t really live without a space suit. That’s why you wear the space suit in the first place.

          Maybe if we moved to an environment more suitable to our nervous system, we wouldn’t need our meat suit.

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        1 year ago

        both of you PLEASE put a CW warning on that

        not everyone has huge screens so we tap it and then ::vomit::

        CW morbid human nervous system anatomy, decoupled from rest of body

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      both of you PLEASE put a CW warning on that

      not everyone has huge screens so we tap it and then ::vomit::

      CW morbid human nervous system anatomy, decoupled from rest of body