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swansom77 t1_iu1nc3u wrote
You’re not really safe until you have a third testicle either off-site or in the cloud.
frnb t1_iu1pyuk wrote
So very true. I was glad I had two 15 years ago. Lost a battle to Testicular Cancer but won the war for my life (and my other bollock) thank god.
I was offered a replacement at the time but refused upon the basis of lack of Bluetooth connectivity available on the silicone replacement.
When I was shown the tray of ball options by my consultant I actually said “do you have one with a Bluetooth radio”.
I thought I was being funny.
He just cleared his throat and put the tray away.
True story.
TelletubbiesPoop t1_iu1np6m wrote
My man! Well said, and true!
debanked t1_iu1ojgd wrote
All sorted, made a deposit at a Sperm bank
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partthethird t1_iu3eyuu wrote
There is no cloud. It's just somebody else's ballsack
-null t1_iu1nytp wrote
More simply, it’s redundancy to avoid a single point of failure.
RSwordsman t1_iu1mdf0 wrote
> "one is none, two is one."
Had to copy this again just in case the first one got lost. :P It is truly a priceless saying though.
FowlOnTheHill t1_iu1tr16 wrote
Thank goodness for that! I only have one and a half!
Coreoreo t1_iu1pw9r wrote
Except with condoms, then it's the other way around. Though having an extra one set aside is probably smart
patman3030 t1_iu5ppzq wrote
"Switching to your left nut is faster than reloading"
Slypenslyde t1_iu1kucb wrote
Redundancy. That's why we have 2 of a lot of things that function just fine with only 1.
If a creature gets injured, there's a chance only 1 of the 2 will be injured and that creature will still be able to have kids. So at some point maybe some ancestral creatures had only one testicle, but those were more likely to be unable to reproduce so they got kicked out of the gene pool by creatures with 2. Humans inherited this trait from whatever creatures developed this over millions of years.
It's possible nature never tried 3, but more likely other factors meant creatures with 3 didn't have advantages or had a disadvantage over creatures with 2. I can think of one that relates to a flaw in baseball: a man with 4 balls cannot walk!
RSwordsman t1_iu1kdo1 wrote
Evolution selected for men with two. Other than the general fact that humans have "bilateral symmetry" in which a lot of features on one side are mirrored on the other, it helps to have redundant systems. If men mostly only had one and something caused it to fail before they have kids, their genetic line ends. Someone with two might still be able to reproduce if one malfunctioned, or if both are somewhat low-functioning on their own.
Zhoenish t1_iu1pi2a wrote
Same structures as ovaries, with slightly different receptors that are formed by and respond to different genetic instructions and hormones. Since in females, switching off of egg development and release from month to month works well, we have two of these in the template. In males, they become testicles and form sperm. Having redundancy in reproductive organs helps ensure your offspring 1. happen, and 2. pass on the genes to keep two of these.
Mammals, eh? At least we didn't keep the more than one pair of nipples.
OtherJohnGray t1_iu3tdkh wrote
Because like most animals, we have two of everything:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateria
(looking at you, smushed together pineal glands masquerading as a single organ…)
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Because if something is important, you have two of them.
Just like how people have two ears and one mouth...
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Highlanddrip t1_iu1qoh1 wrote
Spread your genes! They do function similarly. The only thing I can think of medically I’m a doctor) is that the right testie actually drains back to the venous system differently than the left so we can catch some pathologies like RCC on just the left nut, lol
patrdesch t1_iu1rtc7 wrote
Why do you have two kidneys, or why do women have two ovaries? Redundancy of vital systems is an evolutionary advantage, as if one fails, the other is still there to perform the task, even if at a reduced effectiveness.
TelletubbiesPoop t1_iu1ku37 wrote
One is a back up. Remember the saying "one is none, two is one." It's good to be always prepared