After a rough, sleepless night and waking up with a ferocious back ache, I’m thinking bones are more trouble than they’re worth. I’m going to have them all replaced with hydraulics.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I’m afraid your hydrostatic skeleton won’t work out of the water, unless you were slug-sized. Would be fun though.
That is pretty cool, but I’m curious about something(s). Given a selection of available exits, would an octopus choose the nearest or the easiest? Would it try to squeeze itself through a smaller exit or just examine it, realize it’s not enough, and decide “too small, now quit effing around and give me a crab”?
I’ve had 2 hip replacements, and at some point will probably have both shoulders and both knees replaced. I’ve got severe pain in my lower spine and told my orthopoedic surgeon recently that it was too bad he couldn’t replace my spine. He laughed, shook his head, and said that that wasn’t even in the picture. Yet. .Hip replacements are almost (but not quite) outpatient surgery by now. By the time I’m 70 (I’m 66 now), I will probably be a Bionic Woman…
” I’m thinking bones are more trouble than they’re worth.”
All the fault of evilution .
“♫♬When you hear sweet syncopation and the music softly moans, ’tain’t no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones…♫♬“
Have you tried the Superman exercise? For many (definitely including me), it does actually reduce lower back problems.