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Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Re: Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Post by Shorel »

monort wrote: post #64
fosstax wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Breaking with the left foot sounds really dangerous. What is the right foot doing? ...though I guess you were just reinforcing your point: driving becomes so second nature that you forget the implementation details.

Actually, two feet driving is superior to traditional method in every way, especially on a slippery road. The only problem with it is that when you try it, you are a newbie again, so of course you can mix up pedals just like when you were learning driving. So train it on roads without traffic. https://www.vox.com/2015/7/1/8877583/two-foot-driving-pedal-...

If you are used to a stick shift car, the issue is that the left foot is too 'heavy' and totally lacks the sensitivity to apply the brake.

At least that was my experience. I drove an automatic for the first time some years ago, and that was the only issue I detected.

The fact that you never have to move your feet from the corresponding pedals actually helps to avoid mixing up pedals.

It would be an issue in a rally when downshifts require a bit of throttle and you have to use two feet for three pedals.

Re: Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Post by DoctorOetker »

LilBytes wrote: post #7

This is fascinating! I was diagnosed with dextrocardia w/ situs inversus at 19. I didn't make it to 99 years old to find out I had it, but several physicians and doctors in my childhood missed the diagnosis too. Story time! This is written on mobile so I apologise for grammar and spelling errors. I had awful asthma as a child and would frequently visit hospital till my teenage years because of asthma attacks and simi…

is the majority of people with Dextro Cardio w/ Situs Inversus Totalis on average left handed (handedness innate) ? or right handed (handedness cultural)?

Re: Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Post by LilBytes »

DoctorOetker wrote: post #82
LilBytes wrote: post #7

This is fascinating! I was diagnosed with dextrocardia w/ situs inversus at 19. I didn't make it to 99 years old to find out I had it, but several physicians and doctors in my childhood missed the diagnosis too. Story time! This is written on mobile so I apologise for grammar and spelling errors. I had awful asthma as a child and would frequently visit hospital till my teenage years because of asthma attacks and simi…

is the majority of people with Dextro Cardio w/ Situs Inversus Totalis on average left handed (handedness innate) ? or right handed (handedness cultural)?

I'd have to check. I'm very right handed. :)

Re: Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Post by dnautics »

twic wrote: post #71
dnautics wrote: post #41

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Short answer: at the single cell stage there's a cilium that, spins in a single direction and establishes chirality. People with immotile cilia thus have a 50/50 chance of getting SI, because the developing body chooses randomly.

I thought it was multiple cilia, wafting fluid in a current around a cavity, a bit later than the single cell stage but still very early? Either way, the reason a cilium spins in one direction rather than another is that the motor is a molecular machine built out of amino acids, and amino acids are themselves chiral. If you made a person out of amino acids with the opposite chirality, their cilia would go the other w…

The motion of the cilia is not directly coupled to the chirality of the amino acids, you could probably make a cilium that obligatorily moved in the other direction with a handful of mutations.

Re: Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Post by monort »

Shorel wrote: post #81
monort wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, two feet driving is superior to traditional method in every way, especially on a slippery road. The only problem with it is that when you try it, you are a newbie again, so of course you can mix up pedals just like when you were learning driving. So train it on roads without traffic. https://www.vox.com/2015/7/1/8877583/two-foot-driving-pedal-...

If you are used to a stick shift car, the issue is that the left foot is too 'heavy' and totally lacks the sensitivity to apply the brake. At least that was my experience. I drove an automatic for the first time some years ago, and that was the only issue I detected. The fact that you never have to move your feet from the corresponding pedals actually helps to avoid mixing up pedals. It would be an issue in a rally w…

Yes, that's a problem, but I'm used to a stick, and that issue was quickly resolved after an hour or two of practicing. One hint - use your ankle muscles, not calf to apply pressure with a left leg. If you don't have a low traffic road to practice, you can use go-kart for that too.

Re: Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Post by monort »

carc1n0gen wrote: post #75
Talanes wrote: post #46

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People do totally drive two-footed. In a decently new car there's really no downsides, they'll stop themselves from tanking the engine if you mess up and hit both pedals.

In my experience the concern isn't the damage you cause to your car, but the confusion you give the driver behind you when your left foot resting on the break makes your break lights go on and off

Actually some modern cars do not light brake lights if you press on a pedal lightly, I think engineers are two feet drivers themselves. Test yours!

Re: Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Post by hof »

Gibbon1 wrote: post #23
joe_the_user wrote: post #3

Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams [1] is an amazing read. It discusses a wide variety of "unusual" human physiological characteristics, including bones that only occur sometimes. One hears the refrain "everyone is unique". The thing is, technically you can say "every factory made part is unique" at some level. But humans are much more unique on many more different levels, than any human-made-machine (things…

My favorite was a statistician in the late 40's early 50's who was tasked by the air force to find the 'average pilot'. The reason was new fangled jet fighters were crashing due to pilot error. At higher rates than could be anything but problems with the man machine interface. He and his helpers took 10's of thousands of measurements of thousands of air force pilots and determined that, there is no such thing as the…

This is also described in the book "The End of Average" https://www.amazon.com/End-Average-Succeed-Values-Sameness-e...

Re: Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Post by vagab0nd »

> To honor and respect the privacy of those who offer their bodies to science, no further details are given medical students about the person who had once inhabited the body lying on the silvery slab before them.

Unless you are special I guess?

Re: Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Post by hello_asdf »

vagab0nd wrote: post #88

> To honor and respect the privacy of those who offer their bodies to science, no further details are given medical students about the person who had once inhabited the body lying on the silvery slab before them. Unless you are special I guess?

It sounds like they talked with her surviving family and got permission. The second half of the article is from them.

Re: Rose Marie Bentley lived for 99 years with organs in all the wrong places

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Post by jdhn »

cesarb wrote: post #74
kosievdmerwe wrote: post #33

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Not OP, but I always thought it’s amazing how it becomes second nature. You think you want to turn left and slow down, not I have to use my left foot to slowly press the brake and slowly move my hands in a circle while grasping.

> use my left foot to slowly press the brake I'm not a driver, but isn't the left foot for the clutch? Don't you have to use both the clutch and the brake when stopping the car so the motor won't stop?

Fewer and fewer cars have clutches anymore, but if the car does have a clutch, then yes, the left foot would be for the clutch.
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