Behold, a feathered biped
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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Plato is gonna be fuckin pissed
This sounds like a fun PhD project
If people had wings and could fly it would be considered exercise and nobody would do it.
Americans wouldn't do it, the rest of the world would
Why would I fly for twenty minutes when I can drive for an hour 🙄
I was about to be offended and then I remembered how I got out of breath walking up the stairs this morning. (To be fair, I'm anemic af and almost certainly have a touch of long covid, but still.)
There's just something about stairs that gets me. I can run a sub hour 10k, hike 15+ miles a day, and my resting heart rate is in the 50s, but stairs always get me winded.
My french teacher in high school said that everyone gets winded going up stairs, cause people who are fitter walk up the steps faster
This just solved it for me. That is exactly it. I've been angry at stairs my whole life and now I realize it's because I go up them as fast as I walk- which is considerably faster than most people I know.
Please stop bad-mouthing Americans, it's just self loathing at this point. It cannot be that black and white.
As an American, it's that black and white
dont mention black and white around americans... one of those might shoot the other.
Yes. Burgerlanders are very averse to any level of self improvement that might be difficult. I blame the car culture propaganda more than I blame the people though.
I’m tall and fairly light. Skipping steps helps a lot with efficiency.
I’m good on the feathers I read the goosebumps book about learning to fly and it gave me a preview of my trypophobia when R.L. Stine described the feathers growing out of the main characters skin
ETA: it was “chicken chicken” not “how I learned to fly”
Huh? I just read this book and that was not in there. The kids just drank a potion and then could fly, there was no outward difference to them. Maybe you are mixing up a different one, like the chicken one? We just started that so idk how it goes. The cover has the girl as a chicken though.
Ahh I checked the synopsis and you’re right I definitely got it mixed up with another. I need to find it now.
ETA:Definitely the chicken one jeez it just gave me goosebumps
I'll hold off too because some feathers grow straight from the bones. Eek
I on the other hand am all that is man and will be taking the feathers because I want to look fabulous
Yeah, just leaves more plumage for me to dazzle the ladies with. Have fun not passing on your genes because i have the superior plumage.
Why would I dye my hair when plumage is an option?
MF walking one way into getting a pile of teratomas
Stunning creatures, sea lions.
Wonderful plumage.
Fierce Creatures (1997)
There's certainly something stunning and wonderful in that picture all right
I also have a thing for short guys in glasses!
I want the damn feathers for the social aspect! If we were allowed to preen each other, the world would be a better place!
What does that even mean, you have like “four letters” and dna strands of millions long. Like how selective do you have to be. I’m sure you can basically write anything that way.
Are there entire chunks that are inactive that would give feathers, that at some point gave feathers to our ancestors?
I recall that scientists reactivated chicken genes for teeth and grew a toothed chook
All things DNA is full of code that doesn't get activated and is just passed on anyways
Gene expression is what they mean by "activated"
Basically think of it like having a library of instruction books and only grabbing a few of them to do the project that needs done.
Quick someone get CRSIPR therapy
Now go into a forrest with flint and boom
infinite ammo