Humans, apparently, throw like gods

There are still humans who do this to this day, the most notable being the tarahumara tribes of South America. They will literally run down the local deer barefoot for their food.

Humans are insanely adapted to be endurance runners compared with the rest of the animal kingdom which, if you think about it, kind of makes sense. It takes a LOT less energy for a cheetah to sprint down an antelope in 3 minutes than to chase it for 3 hours, so they adapted to be great sprinters. Likewise, the antelope only has to outrun the cheetah for 3 minutes so they, too, became great sprinters. For small mammals it makes more sense to be able to run very fast and hide from predators than to run long distances in potentially dangerous territory.

Since there was no evolutionary incentive for animals to run marathons they never developed the biology to do so, and we see this not just in mammals, but in reptiles, too. Horses are an exception to this though as they, too, are well adapted to distance running although iirc their adaptations are more in the way of making it mechanically easy (long, strong legs, huge hearts, etc.) to run long distances rather than the cooling systems humans developed.

Humans just kind of lucked out or perhaps ended up filling an evolutionary niche due to our need to cover long ranges with scarce food sources in our early evolutionary development.

"are you tired yet? you can rest you know. " human probably

But that's not it. We've also got the social aspect that brought us, as a species, to the apex to be able to hunt animals that could kill us easily individually, some of us have the balls to dominate those animals even alone, and the intelligence to develop novel tools to increase our capabilities and effective cross-generational communication to enable iterating these tools over many lifespans.

Through this, humans or our descendants might one day hunt apex predators on other planets that maybe are better joggers and throwers than we are.

Fuck that, seems like too much work. I'll just order a pizza... /s

And finding reasons why that important thing can wait until tomorrow, even though that thing is pretty easy to do

I think the only reason we can keep running in hot weather (better than other animals) is because we're resourceful enough to carry water

But wait! Let us tell you about the mustard gas!

... however, flamethrowers were fielded by the Germans first, and already in the previous World War.

It's just a good rule of thumb to write off science memes as bullshit.

they do not

The first wars were thought to be a bunch of people facing off and throwing rocks and sticks at each other. We've been throwing shit for as long as we could walk

Some great apes can learn sign language tho, would be awesome if a group somewhere managed to become best bros with gorillas

If only my 3d printer was so easy to control.

And most people actually suck at it. Source: I do martial arts. Also, my Grandma taught me knitting same principle applies: If you start doing it with your fine motor skills, letting those influence your gross motor posture, you're going to cramp up in no time. Easy and relaxed does the job, move from the shoulders (or even belly), don't even move your fingers just keep them static knitting doesn't really require you to move them. Doesn't matter when all you're doing is opening a door or such but for repeated movements, or forceful ones, or ones that need to be stabilised against adverse forces (like a block) it becomes crucial.

Well, the kind of long distance running that some people do for fun would definitely kill me

Especially long distance running. Imagine a gazelle in prehistoric Africa running away from this weird ape until it is completely exhausted, just to turn around and see the weird ape still coming after it in the distance. We were the horror villains of prehistoric animals.

You shout Yeet for power and Kobe (RIP) for accuracy

I always shout "Klaatu!" Instead of "Kobe!" because I do not understand what a Japanese city has to do with throwing

Sir Isaac newton would be proud

Garrus is a better shot than Shephard, soooo....

Thanks for the thread, I've always been fond of the space orcs interpretation.

That's only because humans are too good at throwing balls to each other. They just use feet to make it harder. That's the exception that proves the rule.

still a projectile just uses your foot

Then that sport obviously doesn't apply here, does it?

Goalkeeper throws are an important part of the game, as are throw-ins from the sideline.

I've always preferred these short imagination-provokers to the long-form stories that are so common in HFY.

I mean, it didn't hit anywhere close to where it came from. All the chimp had to do was get it out of the enclosure to hit someone. With the amount of people filming, I don't think the odds were even that bad that there would be a video of getting hit by it.

It got to whatever the equivalent of r/all is? That's my best guess.