Tau.Neutrino said:

Here’s Scientific Evidence Humans Aren’t All Garbage

1. In general, humans have a pretty good sense of smell.

2. Humans can learn to echolocate, just like bats and dolphins

• I echolocate. I’m not as good at it as I was before I had age-related high frequency hearing loss, but it’s still essential for kissing in the dark without injury.

3. We’ve managed to isolate, trap and photograph the smallest units of matter that we know of.

4. We can also capture images of Earth from 40 million miles away.

5. This teenager invented an app that diagnoses diabetic retinopathy (DR) as accurately as a doctor
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world.

6. There are humans out there that can see many more colours than the rest of us – and they might not even know it

• Poor choice. Tetrachromats are common, my sister Margaret is one. Miss m may be but she’s never been tested. That shouldn’t be confused with the woman who has an extra type of cone cell.

7. We’ve created a sponge-filled injection that plugs bullet wounds
When they come into contact with blood, the sponges rapidly expand to 10 times their original size and swell to fill the wound cavity in about 20 seconds.

8. This 6-year-old cares about Pluto so much she heckled NASA

• Sent her letter to the wrong place. Should have heckled Brown.

10. Scientists have figured out how to reverse memory loss in Alzheimer’s.

• Really?

11. Scientists have made a device that sucks fresh water out of thin air

12. We have found a way to turn excess CO2 in the atmosphere into plastic

13. Vaccines have saved nearly 20 million children’s lives since 2001

14. When you count all the protein molecules in a simple cell, the answer really is 42 million