[RightWhale]

That is so we can talk. It is a compromise: talk or choke.

[aNYCguy]

That is so we can talk. It is a compromise: talk or choke.

Good point. An intelligent design would have us communicating via radiation emissions, not mediocre sound waves. No problem eating and talking, less energy expenditure as heat, and you could communicate for miles through obstacles!

Any way to ask the designer for a mass retrofit? Technology sure has improved these last six thousand years.