• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    Nah the human body can do something no other body can on earth, and that is throw really fucking hard. The reason we can do a baseball pitch style throw is the rotating shoulder blade skeletal structure we have.

    With only a bit of weaving of natural fibers a human can make a sling that can deliver rocks at a lethal velocity to almost any animal (especially when a group of humans are throwing).

    Also the human skeletal structure is far more flexible than most four legged animals. We can wrestle and apply our core muscular body strength in much larger range of directions and motions than most other non-apes even if we are much less strong than them. Think about how a dog can’t really rotate its legs outside of a narrow range at the shoulder blade, this massively reduces how a dog’s skeletal structure can move and apply force from the dogs core stomach muscles to its legs (if you have ever play wrestled with a dog you know once you get over their back and can keep their torso from twisting you got ‘em).

    So yeah human skeletal structure has some unusual benefits, another I didn’t get into is the human bodies genius ability to…… walk run.

    No seriously, being two legged the way locomotion works a human can smoothly speed up from a walk to a run whereas a four legged animal has to at some point discretely transition from a walk to a trot. All the human has to do is go justtttt fast enough that the four legged animal has to make the energy jump to stay in a trot which is much less efficient at minimum speed energy and heat generation wise. Eventually the four legged animal becomes exhausted and human wins (in probably the lamest way possible but a meal is a meal I guess).

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      8 months ago

      I like that we stopped evolving after throwing rocks and sticks at animals which coudn’t escape caz we just walked after them. It’s done, we have no natural predators, and started devolving.

      imagine today, where if you couldn’t sit for 8-9 hours or blank out (school) for 8-9 hours or sleep as little as possible or have your arm in an uncomfortable position for 8-9 hours, you’d just starve, like it ye’ olden days. How much would we change?

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      8 months ago

      Not to mention the absolute best endurance set up of i think every animal on the planet, which is most of them by the way

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        Yeah true I mean at this point all the animals with better endurance capabilities already got the fuck outa here and left the planet as soon as humans started fucking everything up. That’s probably what Noah’s Arc was except it was a coverup to make it seem like all the cool animals didn’t leave on a spaceship without us.

        I guess it sucks most for the other animals that didn’t get the memo though, not sure why they got left behind. Maybe the only animals left on earth were all the assholes that got left behind for being pricks, are we a planet of grumpy fucks and no aliens come here because they know even the squirrels on earth are jerks?