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You are not so normal after all - a look at what makes you strange
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Riyria Twinpeaks
Perkone
Caldari State
#61 - 2014-07-16 07:47:03 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Another amazing human trait: The ability to accurately throw things over a distance. For example, throwing a basketball through a hoop, or a dart at a bullseye. There's a ballistic trajectory involved, so the thrower has to:
-Correctly judge the distance to the target;
-Launch the object at precisely the right angle; and
-Launch it with precisely the right amount of force.
Any error, and the trajectory will be off and the target will be missed.

And of course, the throw also has to be correctly aligned with the target along the vertical Y axis. That part gets more complicated when the target is moving. For example, a pass from a quarterback to a receiver in football (handegg).

We're so good at hitting targets that we can also do it with our feet (football (soccer)), or using slings, bows or sticks (hockey, golf). And also catapults, cannon, rifles and pistols. We like hitting targets so much that most our sports involve some kind of target-hitting.

Source: Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape and Manwatching.


When it comes to throwing, I found this interesting as well.

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Throwing is hard. In order to deliver a baseball to a batter, a pitcher has to release the ball at exactly the right point in the throw. A timing error of half a millisecond in either direction is enough to cause the ball to miss the strike zone.

To put that in perspective, it takes about five milliseconds for the fastest nerve impulse to travel the length of the arm. That means that when your arm is still rotating toward the correct position, the signal to release the ball is already at your wrist. In terms of timing, this is like a drummer dropping a drumstick from the 10th story and hitting a drum on the ground on the correct beat.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#62 - 2014-07-16 23:44:18 UTC
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
I don't think I could hack it in Paleolithic lifestyles. I enjoy things like shampoo, conditioner and other basic hygienic needs too much. Not to mention other creature comforts...like my pillowtop mattress and climate control. lol

You might not miss those so much after a while. I think what's harder for modern society people in a traditional society is:
-The lack of privacy. You have no man/woman cave to hide in. Pretty much every waking moment you're in the village, you're exposed to public view. But you can wander off into woods, hills, sea, etc. for a while. The usual jerks might cynically ask where you've been, but the regular cool people won't.
-The reputation. Any shameful screw up you do, it gets known to everybody, and it's in your permanent file with everyone. Caught sleeping with this or that one, etc.
-No boudoir. Sex tends to involve secrecy and nightcrawling, mosquitoes, and lots of either hardened or semi-decomposed plant detritus.
-The boredom. No electricity, no internet, no TV, no films, no radio, no books. The only stimulus is what's going on with the people around you, the gossip and storytelling, intense/harsh happenings in nature, the status of your hunger/health, and seasonal food blooms.
-Lots of scars and really bad looking beat up, calloused Hobbit feet.

But on the plus side:
-You have more than enough friends, who understand perfectly, and accept you just the way you are.
-You're never, ever lonely.
-Local group dynamics and politics is Game of Thrones, x3. But the drama isn't fiction, you're a real life participant and stakeholder.
-Weird and mysterious magical/mystery/ghosty/voodoo things.
-You're about as strong, randy, and energetic as a wild dingo dog.
Bagrat Skalski
Koinuun Kotei
#63 - 2014-07-17 10:14:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Bagrat Skalski
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Eurydia Vespasian wrote:
I don't think I could hack it in Paleolithic lifestyles. I enjoy things like shampoo, conditioner and other basic hygienic needs too much. Not to mention other creature comforts...like my pillowtop mattress and climate control. lol

You might not miss those so much after a while. I think what's harder for modern society people in a traditional society is:
-The lack of privacy. You have no man/woman cave to hide in. Pretty much every waking moment you're in the village, you're exposed to public view. But you can wander off into woods, hills, sea, etc. for a while. The usual jerks might cynically ask where you've been, but the regular cool people won't.
-The reputation. Any shameful screw up you do, it gets known to everybody, and it's in your permanent file with everyone. Caught sleeping with this or that one, etc.
-No boudoir. Sex tends to involve secrecy and nightcrawling, mosquitoes, and lots of either hardened or semi-decomposed plant detritus.
-The boredom. No electricity, no internet, no TV, no films, no radio, no books. The only stimulus is what's going on with the people around you, the gossip and storytelling, intense/harsh happenings in nature, the status of your hunger/health, and seasonal food blooms.
-Lots of scars and really bad looking beat up, calloused Hobbit feet.


Add sexual initiation ritualized and in a puberty age, ocassional spear raids from the tribes questioning your place on the earth, medicine man shaking dead squirrel over you, spraying you with its entrails when you have rabies.

Custom ship skins, character creator style "repaint". Bring it!