Also the title of an Imponderables book. In the days before search engines got good, you could actually email the author a question and get an answer back.
Years ago, I was a developer on a software project where my friend Svein (of blessed memory) was a tester. I lent him this book and got it back with words taped over on the cover to change the title to:
I bet it would be fun to have a knee inside your belly. It becomes possible to stir bowels, so digestion would go faster, or you could scratch your liver when it itches.
I don't think it's related but we have a copy of 'Does Anything Eat Wasps?' (I think there were a couple of obscure things that do eat them but I'll go check.)
I remember a comedian talking about taking his cat to the vet and being told the cat had bad knees. "I didn't even know cats _had_ knees, but what do I know? If the vet told me he needs new batteries, I can't argue with him."
I once had a vet that was so good about addressing this issue and making sure I was equipped to be part of any decisionmaking process. She would be happy to discuss an issue layer by layer until I felt sufficiently informed. It helped that she was a natural science communicator.
Eventually we moved and I lost that vet but gained a family doctor who was very much the same. Unfortunately he “isn’t licensed to treat nonhumans.”
"...here's where evolution gets shady, if these poor animals have been walking 80 miles every year for the past 10 million years why don't they have knees yet? The wings haven't worked out for some reason but couldn't they at least get some bendy legs?"
Well, caterpillars probably do have 6 knees, but the things you're probably thinking of aren't legs. In this photo, the only legs are the brown ones holding the leaf; the things the caterpillar is standing on are prolegs, and they don't have joints:
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 131 ms ] threadFun series of books. Will have to get my kids to give them a try.
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I still have the book with the words taped over.
A: Yes - They are hidden under the feathers at the tops of the legs.
It reminded me of the childrens book "Did Jesus Ever See a Penguin?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenos_vesparum
Eventually we moved and I lost that vet but gained a family doctor who was very much the same. Unfortunately he “isn’t licensed to treat nonhumans.”
I've read your reply, is the point you're making that you didn't know cats had knees? I'm not sure, perhaps it's something deeper I'm missing.
"...here's where evolution gets shady, if these poor animals have been walking 80 miles every year for the past 10 million years why don't they have knees yet? The wings haven't worked out for some reason but couldn't they at least get some bendy legs?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1imLp-IUzI
https://falseknees.com
And I say “believe” because I haven’t found any explanation of the reason for the name, but I don’t know what else it would refer to.
https://www.thoughtco.com/parts-of-a-caterpillar-1968482