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Anonymous Sat Jul 23 20:54:32 2011 No.3439428 [Reply] [Original]

why did the human kind evolve nothing cool?
- we have no claws, wings, fangs, etc
- we cant roar, growl, purr,...
- we have no badass fur
- we have no impressive muscles (without roids)
- boring eye shapes

how can we call ourself predators if we can't barley kill a goat without a weapon?
pic related. it's a tiger.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 20:56:32 2011 No.3439431 fuck off, furry

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 20:56:32 2011 No.3439433 >>3439428 We are the best endurance runners on the planet. Also, the smarts alone is sufficient to kill a lion.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 20:58:32 2011 No.3439438 >>3439433 yeah, but that's boring

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 20:58:32 2011 No.3439439 Actually, humans are very good at running long distances. There are tribes that hunt by chasing deer/antelope until the animal collapses from exhaustion

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 20:58:32 2011 No.3439440 >>3439428 All perceptive and subjective. Personally, I think we've evolved into pretty badass creatures.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:00:32 2011 No.3439446 we're only predators in the exaptative sense. there's little point in trying to compare and classify a unique and novel strategy. we ascend from omnivores, and not even particularly successful ones at that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:01:32 2011 No.3439448 BANG! All other animals are dead

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:03:32 2011 No.3439452 File: 208 KB, 807x1024, apmisc-KSC-66PC-80.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] we are the most bad ass species bro.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:05:32 2011 No.3439461 >>3439452 we aren't impressive without our technology.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:06:32 2011 No.3439466 >>3439461 we also aren't human without our technology.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:08:32 2011 No.3439473 >>3439461 Technology is an adaption just like claws or venom.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:09:32 2011 No.3439476 We have a badass homicidal instinct and superior intellect. Isn't that good enough?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:09:32 2011 No.3439477 >>3439461 >>3439466 we have more wit than other animals. We're smarter. And technology/tools users are found in nature too, not just humans. So I'd say that it's way more badass than claws or wings, cause we can just make that shit. So GO YIFF IN HELL

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:11:32 2011 No.3439481 primitive man/old school man was more bad ass though i think. He had no technology to rely on, but still managed to slay dinosaurs and learn magic and shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:11:32 2011 No.3439483 File: 34 KB, 531x262, 1309352067410.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3439466 well, check mate >>3439473 I agree with you as soon we can improve our bodies with our technology. (robot arm inc.) that will be pretty impressive.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:12:32 2011 No.3439485 File: 136 KB, 428x510, 1295644016994.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3439438 >PhD in endurance >any zebra I want >300lbs starting

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:12:32 2011 No.3439486

>>how can we call ourself predators if we can't barley kill a goat without a weapon?

I've held this contention for as long as I've known what a predator was.

It's a situation where we were only allowed into the Predators Club grudgingly because we fulfilled the base requirements.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:21:32 2011 No.3439505 >implying intelligence isn't cool

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:26:32 2011 No.3439514 Thumbs, brain, and walking upright was all our species needed to conquer the world.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:27:32 2011 No.3439515 >>3439505 would be much cooler if other species would be as intelligent as we are. making contact with aliens will be the greatest moment in the human history.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:28:32 2011 No.3439517 Agreed, Op. That's why I'm scared to go hiking. All the brainpower won't save me from a mountain lion.

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:28:32 2011 No.3439519

>>3439433

Humans are the most versatile animals on the planet - we're out-matched in individual categories at times, but excel in all - we can swim, think, run, be physically strong, endure starvation (survive), subsist on a crazy variety of foods, and use tools like a motherfucker. We are the rightful owners of the top position on the food chain - the world's apex predator and survivor.

Also, both sexes can enjoy the act of procreation, which I can massively appreciate, as I spend a lot of time studying other animals who often don't.

I really wish that we had short soft fur though, like housecats, and I fucking swear I'm not a furry - I just feel like clothes are stupid.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:28:32 2011 No.3439521 We are one of the only animals that have sex for pleasure too, Dolphins fuck for fun too. Dolphins are also intelligent.

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:29:32 2011 No.3439524

we have the highest eq.
we are able to modify our environment to be more suitable to ourselves.
we have the capacity to create and properly utilize tools.
we have an extremely complex means for communication.
communication + tools = superpredators.
show me any species of animal (microorganisms excluded) that can hold its own against us (alone or in groups) when a group of us mobilizes against it with tools, and i will consider us a weak, uninteresting, nonpredator species.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:29:32 2011 No.3439526 >>3439519 >>3439521 hivemind

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:30:32 2011 No.3439527 >>3439517 It will if you use that brainpower to buy a large caliber handgun.

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:31:32 2011 No.3439529

>how can we call ourself predators if we can't barley kill a goat without a weapon?

Its not that other animals don't need weapons, but that they can't use weapons. Using tools crafted by our own intelligence isn't cheating. We are just the best at killing.

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:31:32 2011 No.3439530

>>3439519

Add another evolutionary boost to that list - humans can work in concert. We are amazed when other animals do it, like Orcas, but working together may be the most powerful method humans used to reach the top of the heap on Earth, probably a lot more than just tools.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:33:32 2011 No.3439540 We also have thumbs, very important.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:36:32 2011 No.3439548 You'd rather have fangs, fur, claws, etc. than be intelligent? Oh, nevermind. I forgot what website I'm on. >>3439517 You are aware that our species invented various high powered means for protection, right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:37:32 2011 No.3439554 It is insane that in a few thousand years we went from bare subsistence and grunting in caves to analyzing the light spectrum emanating from millions of light years away to identify water vapor and the mass of other planets. Holy shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:39:32 2011 No.3439561 >>3439519 >I just feel like clothes are stupid. I'm sure the fleas agree.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:40:32 2011 No.3439565 I think the sex thing is pretty cool. We have the highest drive and it is recreational, no other animal gets that. Our faces also look more interesting, as they tend to follow different shapes based on phi and pi

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:45:32 2011 No.3439577

>>3439565

Other animals have recreational sex, but it is rarely mutually enjoyable. So guys who don't help their partner get off are mal-evolved assholes. It's science! The unsatisfied partner, in the interest of passing on the most advanced, sophisticated genes, should find a someone who gives them the most possible pleasure.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:45:32 2011 No.3439580 >>3439565 i think bonobos and dolphins get it on for fun too... i could be wrong though.

>>	pascal !PascaL9QAg Sat Jul 23 21:47:32 2011 No.3439584 >>3439580 when petting dolphins the trainers instruct you not to pet below the waist. otherwise the dolphins think you are making advances on them. Then the rape begins.

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:49:32 2011 No.3439600
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>>3439486
>It's a situation where we were only allowed into the Predators Club grudgingly because we fulfilled the base requirements.
We're unsurpassed endurance runners, which is incredibly useful predation strategy against large herd herbivorous.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 21:56:32 2011 No.3439643 The op is a moron, and probably physically useless. Luckily for the human race, he's less likely to pass on his genes, thanks to both his physical and mental shortcomings. We will continue to survive and thrive.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 22:15:32 2011 No.3439748 i biggest dream is to modify the human body to be able to punch bears to death. no robotics, a person must be able to have a child that has the same bear punching qualities that he has.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 22:16:32 2011 No.3439756 Abstract thought is pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 22:19:32 2011 No.3439769 >>3439486 Daily, we kill more animals than all other species combined. I'd say that was pretty effective predation.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 22:20:32 2011 No.3439773 >>3439554 probably a few hundred thousands years, but yeah, it's pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 22:25:32 2011 No.3439800 >>3439514 oh god thats depressing

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 22:27:32 2011 No.3439804 >>3439748 Holy fucking shit, that sounds awesome. Do it.

Human Evolution Anonymous Sat Jul 23 22:27:32 2011 No.3439806
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I think humans have turned out pretty badass, especially if one is to equip a human with a flamethrower. I think humans are second only to bears, which are Godless Mankilling Beasts

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 22:37:32 2011 No.3439840 How bout that prefrontal cortex? We beat every fucking animal alive with that

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 22:47:32 2011 No.3439879

>>3439446

>we ascend from omnivores, and not even particularly successful ones at that.

>Implying success means anything other than surviving long enough to produce offspring that go on to produce more offspring.

We're doing far better than anything else out there right now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 22:57:32 2011 No.3439913 >>3439486 >Capable of killing absolute anything on this planet >Even gone so far as to completely wipe several species off the face of Earth >Several species of animal only still exist because we eat them >Not a predator

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 23:14:32 2011 No.3439978

>we have no claws, wings, fangs, etc
Canine teeth mofo

>we cant roar, growl, purr,...
Natural language > any of that shit

>we have no badass fur
Don't need that shit. As others have already said, we are endurance runners. We're so good at temperature regulation we're capable of walking other animals down until they die. Then we eat them

>we have no impressive muscles (without roids)
See above

>why did the human kind evolve nothing cool?
How about hands for tool use and superior brains?

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 23:18:32 2011 No.3439990
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We are Gods.
The human race has achieved heights and become something greater than the world has ever seen.

Not only we're the most efficient killing machines and rulers of the world, we're also the most resilient species that accel in any physical and mental aspect imaginable.
We can fucking fly and we don't even need wings to do it.
We can kill any organism with just light motion of our finger (guns).
We can destroy the planet if we wanted to the same way. (nukes)

We've also went from cavemen with bare subsistence to analyzing the entire light spectrum emanating from millions of light years away to identify water vapor and the mass of other planets, along with mapping and acknowledging our entire universe.
We can even become immortal if we wanted to (eternal youth by genetic engineering to prevent the telomare restoration gene from being disabled during our early life, or the alternative less efficient cloning body parts and replacing worn out organs).
And all of this in only a few thousand years.

Imagine how great we will be in 500 million years. It will be beyond imagination.

Like I said. We are gods. Toss away your bible books and fairy tales, because we're living our dreams.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 23:24:32 2011 No.3440010 >>3439990 Gods... lol not until we can understand what makes the universe tick. You need to know everything to understand everything. Either way I'd prefer to be a bisexual anthromorphic dog and live the life of a human than be a human...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 23:26:32 2011 No.3440018 >>3439439 sauce

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 23:28:32 2011 No.3440023 >>3439990 well said sir

Anonymous Sat Jul 23 23:29:32 2011 No.3440026

>>3440010
We already know that.
Time and space make the universe tick.
We also know how it ticks, what rules must be followed, and why things are the way they are.
Laws of physics, math, chemistry.
I don't think there is a question we cannot answer.

I repeat, we are Gods.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 23:29:32 2011 No.3440029 >>3440018 nvm found it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting impressed

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 23:33:32 2011 No.3440040 >>3440026 If we're gods then make me a furry.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 23:38:32 2011 No.3440048 >>3440040 I refuse. It's possible, though. Requesting that bizarre half-man-half-dog face with the sown on mouth, ears, and fur.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 23 23:40:32 2011 No.3440053 File: 30 KB, 395x400, Barley[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I want to barley kill a goat! I want to see someone barley kill a goat. Pic related. It's barley.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:02:32 2011 No.3440118 >>3440053 I was waiting for this post for a long time.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:04:32 2011 No.3440122 File: 29 KB, 441x275, dogface.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3440048

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:17:32 2011 No.3440161 >>3439879 >We're doing far better than anything else out there right now. hello fullretard self-appointed human. in term of biomass and/or number of gene, you are no match for the common cockroach. now stop thinking you are the apex of evolution

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:18:32 2011 No.3440165 >intelligence >not the coolest thing ever pick 1

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:21:32 2011 No.3440170 File: 1.95 MB, 250x250, neuhgh.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3440122 Fuck you I hate that picture with the entirety of my being.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:38:32 2011 No.3440212 >>3439554 it's crazier we went from wheel and the fire to that in like 6000 years

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:39:32 2011 No.3440215 File: 109 KB, 365x514, Slàinte.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3440122

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:40:32 2011 No.3440216 >>3439990 >eternal youth by genetic engineering to prevent the telomare restoration gene from being disabled during our early life does this mean everyone alive right now can't get this?

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:42:32 2011 No.3440219

>>3439978

You're forgetting that humans are also the most efficient eaters as well. Most of the time, we only need 3 pounds of food everyday at max (disregarding overweight and landwhales). Compared to other animals who need to constantly eat and eat just to gain nutrition.

As well, the human body's muscle groupings allow for many muscle groups to produce high forces that exceed many animal's abilities. Hell, boxers average around 850 to 1050 psi per punch. The human muscle groupings are so powerful that if replaced with denser muscle found in other primates boxers would be able to produce easily 2300 psi per punch.

We are pinnacles of evolution, we just need to tap into our potential.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:42:32 2011 No.3440222 >>3439428 at least humans have dicks

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:43:32 2011 No.3440223 File: 950 KB, 1280x720, Broken_Steel_power_armor.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sure as fuck boring, furfag.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:44:32 2011 No.3440228 >>3440165 >creature with intelligence considering intelligence as the coolest thing ever >implying you're not someone who thinks your race is the master race

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:46:32 2011 No.3440233 >>3440228 intelligence is objectively the coolest since it made us apex predators we went from being hunted to pushing the limits of physical laws being only limited by what is fundamentally possible to exist or not exist

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:50:32 2011 No.3440244 >>3440216 yep, they can't get it. sorry, enjoy your no-existing afterlife.

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:51:32 2011 No.3440248

>but but....we're unsurpassed endurance runners

only by training every day, which is only possible due to our intelligence (no other animal would run just to become better at it)

also that's like...less than 1% of the population who can run for more than 10 minutes straight, most of us would fucking collapse from exhaustian trying to chase down an amptilope

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:53:32 2011 No.3440255 >>3440244 that's irrelevent since fundamentally the only thing you have to preserve is the brain and the reason that dies isn't telomare

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:55:32 2011 No.3440261 >>3440248 Who cares, back in the days that was only a concern because berrga and his tribe didn't know about spear or rocks. Now days we don't even need that shit, we're so good we farm animals. d/w it furry

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:56:32 2011 No.3440263 >>3439428 You only consider it not cool because you've had it since you were born. Does the tiger go around saying "Look at my kick ass claws" unless it's actually using them?

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:56:32 2011 No.3440264

>>3440248
>running
We killed those shits by WALKING nigga. Most animals can run quickly for like 100 yards, at best. We're the only species on the planet that can not only incredibly efficiently walk, we can do it for hours and hours.

We didn't run down animals to exhaustion, we fucking walked.

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 00:58:32 2011 No.3440277

-intelligence kills a lot better than most body parts
-we can talk
-we don't need it
-we do, just not the way you're thinking. Endurance muscles. Humans are the best long-distance runners
-I'm guessing you mean pupil shape. That might evolve later but for now there's no reason for it to change

>>3440248
It was also possible when people lived in the wilderness and did nothing but find food, run from animals, and have sex. But either way we still kick their asses.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:01:32 2011 No.3440286 File: 74 KB, 250x250, 1270835404662.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] BECAUSE WE DIDN'T END OF FUCKING STORY

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:02:32 2011 No.3440292 >>3440264 why am i now imagining millions of years of human endurance hunters just doing the haters gonna hate strut while animals slowly ran themselves to death

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:04:32 2011 No.3440303

Human's would be nothing without guns. And 99.999% of the population would be unable to create a gun by themselves from scratch. So pretty much the only thing keeping us at the top of the food chain is that 1 person/company making guns for the rest of us.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:05:32 2011 No.3440307 >>3439600 >>3439485 >>3440292 It is now my life goal to kill a zebra by running at it.

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:07:32 2011 No.3440321

Humans are so badass, a wild lion's first instinct when it sees a human is to run. That's right, we fucking make the king of the jungle run away like a little pussy.

If you, yes YOU, were to go to africa and encounter a lion he would fucking bolt in the other direction. That's the same animal that would fight an elephant

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:12:32 2011 No.3440349 >>3440321 what

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:16:23 2011 No.3440365 >>3440349 you'd be scared shitless of humans too if your only contact with them was crazy nigger tribes and poachers

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:18:32 2011 No.3440377 >>3439433 >Best endurance runners on the planet Sauce on this?

Cerebrate Anon Sun Jul 24 01:19:32 2011 No.3440378

>>3439428
>Why don't humans get anything cool?
>We're just the most technologically advanced civilization to have ever walked the Earth, capable of engineering feats the likes of which Nature itself is incapable! We don't have any of the interesting traits of the entire species we control like sock puppets, training and caging in zoos without so much as a second thought!
>Why is being the single most powerful breed of animal to have ever existed so boooooring?

Fuck you and everything you stand for.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:21:32 2011 No.3440386 We got the coolest feature of all. Super intelligence (compared to any other animal). We can use our brains to make tools and mimic any features an animal has.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:26:32 2011 No.3440397 >>3440365 ok that's pretty awesome

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:27:32 2011 No.3440401 >>3440397 but is it actually true, i find it hard to believe a lion would run from a human being

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:28:32 2011 No.3440407 >>3439517 Because you're not prepared for that shit like our ancestors were. Hell even as far back as a thousand years ago, hunting parties, and lone wanders at least knew a way to to to fight/flight/kill from a more basic predator.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:30:32 2011 No.3440413 >>3440401 ive seen gifs of bears being chased off by a fucking cat. They run on instinct, if they are in stalking mode and they get caught its usually like OHFUCKTHISIMOUT.dll not always, but mostly.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:31:32 2011 No.3440417 >>3440377 any anthropology introductory class in any community college/University even High Schools.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:33:32 2011 No.3440424 >>3440303 but we were the top predators before the gun came about... nigga u dumb.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:34:32 2011 No.3440425 >>3440417 Don't really think this still applies though. 99% of humans wouldn't be able to run for 2-5 hours in 40 degree Celsius heat.

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:39:32 2011 No.3440436

Sigh okay, let me go pull out my old anthro notes...
Its not that most humans cant, but we are built for long term running. It has to do with how our legs, hips feet all put out and return energy. How our circulrtoty system and muscles use and deliver oxygen and how its brken down. We have the most cost effective stride way of walking. Any human can run, or train to run. Ever see the boston marathon? A few of them had to be former fatasses. Hell even my fatass can run two miles straight without stopping..(I.e. I am trying to not be a fatass anymore.)

>>	Cerebrate Anon Sun Jul 24 01:40:32 2011 No.3440439 >>3440425 Thankfully, 99.99% will never have to. We've conquered the planet that thoroughly.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:43:32 2011 No.3440446 >>3440425 This is modern humans. Nature-surviving humans would have no problem, society's desk jockies can't (and don't need to).

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:48:32 2011 No.3440455 We only advanced so far because we pass down things some octopus that are forced to hunt in groups are actually learning from the older generation instead of discovering it themselves and work together to take down larger animals

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:52:32 2011 No.3440464 >>3440425 And neither can today's land predators.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 01:52:32 2011 No.3440465 >>3439806 >bears >not pussys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkwy0scRXBU

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:01:32 2011 No.3440482 >>3440401 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8XsJnwZUyY Humans>Lions

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:04:32 2011 No.3440490 >>3440465 >black bear I'd like to see her try that with a brown bear or god forbid a polar bear.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:04:32 2011 No.3440491 >>3440465 It was chimps, and the behavior came from looking for tools/ food in dirt. While the chimp would take a handfull of dirt and earth and throw it in the water. It didn't know that seeds floated, only that the floating things were food.

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:05:32 2011 No.3440494

-the human ear is better in pinpointing sound sources than most animals, except bats
-human vision is exceptionally good at spotting patterns in backgrounds and predicting movement
-when you turn your head you still have an idea of the space behind you, most animals don't

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:14:32 2011 No.3440504

>>3439428
OP, if you ran and hunted all your life for survival, you'd be able to kill a tiger with your bare hands in a face-off because not only would you have a predator's muscles and reflexes, you'd have human brains as well.

Stop being a retarded faggot and go yiff in hell.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:23:32 2011 No.3440516 how do the guys that run down deers and shit get the meat back to the village? They'd be ages away after all that running.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:30:32 2011 No.3440536 >>3440219 If our muscles are so great why are big cats and bears and shit stronger than us?

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:31:32 2011 No.3440537
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>>3440482

That actually really fucking fascinating.

My thought process on the whole thing goes like this:

"Alright Kunta and his pals are about to wreck some lions with human technology... OH SHIT! They just walked up in there like a boss and KS'd those lions! -scientist mode- Hmmm... perhaps our brains afford us the ability to understand that tactically those lions have the numbers and strength to defeat us, but the lions are in fact not as empathetic, cooperative and able to conceptualize the possibilities leading to success and failure leaving the only optimal strategy for prolonged reproductive ability is ensuring one's own personal safety above all else."

Interesting shit no doubt. Makes me wonder if perhaps our cooperation is the reason for becoming as successful a species as we are today....

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:33:32 2011 No.3440543

We aren't gods, go infect yourself with ebola somewhere in the sticks.

But.

We are still pretty fucking apexing it on the scale of predators.

Abstract thought and language, opposable thumbs, bipedal, etc.

Take a mouse, for example, they'll forever walk into traps, cause they can't say : Yo guys, avoid this shit, it's a trap.

We can.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:34:23 2011 No.3440549 File: 63 KB, 727x689, 46.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3440543 >mfw imaging an admiral ackbar mouse

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:41:32 2011 No.3440577 >>3440516 They run back.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:42:32 2011 No.3440580 >>3440465 awww that makes me want to pet him

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:46:32 2011 No.3440590

>>3440303
>So pretty much the only thing keeping us at the top of the food chain is that 1 person/company making guns for the rest of us
Slings, chucking rocks, spears, bow and arrow, that shoehorn like spear launcher, blowguns, etc.

Also, traps, etc
Also, cunning and guile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa3V5tZXT7U

Granted, that was a gun kill, but we fucking call animals, exploit their instincts, that hunter, if experienced enough, could have shot that coyote with a bow, too.

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:49:32 2011 No.3440595

humans are nature's ultimate killing machine, within 5000 years we went from being able to hunt animals via endurance to being capable of wiping 99% of the life of an ENTIRE BIOSPHERE to nothing via thermonuclear weapons + Cobalt salting

not to mention standard weapons and hell, kinetic kill vehicles dropped from outerspace or pinpoint accuracy missiles

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:50:32 2011 No.3440602 >>3440595 not to mention hypothetically being able to produce non-micro black holes which annhilate entire planets that's the very top end of scifi weaponry right there

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:51:32 2011 No.3440605 >>3440595 >5000 I hope you meant 50k or more. Egyptians didn't endurance hunt faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:53:32 2011 No.3440610 >>3440590 Aw... that coyote was so cute when it thought there was another one around

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:55:32 2011 No.3440615 >>3440610 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqVE9qfg7yI They are beautiful animals, but also a pest.

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 02:57:32 2011 No.3440622

Humans are the most badass animal to have ever existed. Unlike other animals, we didn't increase our strength, grow claws, or develop venom. Instead of competing, we did something no other animal had done before: we became smarter.
What good does that do? It fundamentally changes motherfucking EVERYTHING. obviously didn't haPpen all at once, but we became the only animal to plan. Yes, we could remember, and learn, and do many things far better than any animal, but being able to plan attacks, use of traps, coordinate with other humans, including the use of tools, made us not only the most efficient killer on the planet, it made us one of the best survivors. Other animals didn't know summer was coming, and that we'd need water to survive. We did.
Today, our collective knowledge makes us absolutely dominant over every animal on the planet. We make entire species go extinct on a regular basis... Without even trying. We have no natural predators. Most animals run the fuck away when they see one of us. The ONLY threat to our continued existence? OTHER FUCKING HUMANS.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 03:01:32 2011 No.3440627 File: 8 KB, 280x239, 1293488838464.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3440590 OOOHEEEEE BITCH GOT DUSTED!

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 03:03:32 2011 No.3440629

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMG3xfmYGrg

Posting the once upon a time series for oldfags and fortunate youngfags who got to see this.
Fellow Doitschbags will probably recognize this show before anyone else.

Good times, should be a mandatory watch for everyone, cheesy as hell but damn if I didn't learn something from it.

Osmosis Joe and the like can go fuck itself, I don't need no ADHD style narration.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 03:04:32 2011 No.3440632 >>3440605 >>3440615 >>3440610 >>3440590 weird how hunters back in the past were honorable but in the days of rednecks using guns it's not. nothing wrong with it but it's a joke and there's no game no challenge

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 03:06:32 2011 No.3440635 >>3440615 >I'LL HAMMER YER ASS, GET OAT! lolololololol canadians

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 03:09:32 2011 No.3440639

>>3440632
I'm not sure if that is sarcasm now, as in, reflecting the views of all those negative youtube comments, or your own view, seeing this as not really hunting, but more like just herpa derping guns around and shooting shit.

If its the latter:
Toting a gun and shooting it isn't the same as knowing how to oblique shoot and all that jazz that ensures quick, painless kills.
even with guns there is a skill progression.

But if you mean, it should be as hard as the early humans had it...then why?
We already have the tech and knowledge, re-inventing the wheel is just for fun, not mandatory.

If this man has a license and actual knowledge and training of culling animal numbers, then he did nothing wrong or dishonorable.

And I'm not even American.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 03:13:32 2011 No.3440645 >>3440639 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q4vHONvubc case in point, he didn't even hit the damn thing.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 03:23:32 2011 No.3440657 >>3439527 i lol'd.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 03:29:32 2011 No.3440664 >>3439428 0/10

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 03:50:32 2011 No.3440706 >>3440482 that was badass.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 24 03:59:32 2011 No.3440737 File: 32 KB, 500x377, hahahaohwow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >the brain isn't our strongest weapon

Anonymous Sun Jul 24 05:30:32 2011 No.3440877

While it's minor compared to the other stuff that has been mentioned, humans also have comparatively big dicks that are nicely shaped for mutual enjoyment of the user and recipient. If the human penis was more specialized with crazy barbs and shit, there'd be far fewer creative and entertaining choices for where to stick it...

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