Talk:2047: Beverages

Randall Munroe needs to be less existential ... oh wait. 162.158.155.146 (talk) 05:22, 17 September 2018‎ (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Wouldn’t it warrant being freaked out *more* if it were shaped like lungs? Now that would freak me out. (Choking on food is but one example that even nature can not get a dual function, single endpoint API perfectly right. Luckily nature was unaware of GraphQL - or we’d have one orifice, 1 endpoint for all bodily functions. 172.69.130.70 (talk) 05:36, 17 September 2018‎ (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

(Responding to the above unsigned) Aren’t there some animals where that is the case? Jellyfish and starfish (I think) are the examples that comes to mind, but I’m sure there are others (especially among sea life). Also wow, humanity (at least the English speaking portion) really likes naming things that aren’t fish “fish” 😂 PotatoGod (talk) 07:19, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

But there's 'No Such Thing as a Fish' :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Such_Thing_as_a_Fish --OliReading (talk) 12:31, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Well you can think yourself lucky that you are not designed like a flatworm which only has one opening to its digestive cavity... 162.158.166.191 11:17, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Isn't that a cloaca?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_y4DbZivHCY

ProphetZarquon (talk) 13:25, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Isn't the stream of beverages interrupted in intervals by swallowing? Sebastian --172.68.110.10 06:16, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

The bulge in the middle of the vertical portion of the flow (oesophagus) is from the effects of peristalsis, which does not cut off the flow entirely in order to push stuff down, but leaves a little gap. That is part of the reason you can belch and barf. Nutster (talk) 12:37, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

I think what he means with "if I wait a while" the beverage at the end of digestion is then connected to the toilet, sewers and oceans... -- Benjamin3005 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Similar Imagery

Radiotopia's recently released "Everything is alive" podcast's premiere episode, Louis Can of Cola, is about this experience from the perspective of the beverage. The episode features a discussion of between the beverage and a the host who {spoiler alert} offers to drink it. The episode was featured by podcasting legend Roman Mars on his own Radiotopia show "99 Percent Invisible, podcast" earlier this summer in July 2018. Iggynelix (talk) 12:24, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

I've moved both to a trivia section. Doesn't explain anything. --Dgbrt (talk) 14:18, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

What are the two organs beneath the stomach?

Liver makes sense because they are involved in the digesting process; but kidneys are ruled out because they filter blood where the liquid hasn't arrived yet. Any ideas? --Dgbrt (talk) 13:31, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Looks to me like that is the stomach. The "bulge" above looks like peristalsis. Baldrickk (talk) 13:44, 17 September 2018 (UTC)