r/BeAmazed • u/Nefarious_14 • Mar 05 '25

Animal A cat's agility through its pov

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u/joalheagney Mar 05 '25

Human's super power is walking. We can travel further and more efficiently than nearly any animal on the planet (kangaroos have us beat).

So if you're feeling down, take a walk.

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u/GaloombaNotGoomba Mar 05 '25

cries in disabled

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u/Koil_ting Mar 05 '25

The real power is brain power, of course you can get disabled in other ways and lose some of that but so can the cats.

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u/SnuggleMuffin42 Mar 05 '25

Not a problem, because humans invented CARS. Goo VROOM VROOM my man. Hell, we're so advanced the cars are now adapted to disabled people!

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u/Frigorifico Mar 06 '25

at least we live in societies that take care of us if/when we get disabled, and we constantly create new technologies to make life better

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u/adrienjz888 Mar 06 '25

Throwing is another specialty. The closest runner ups are our primate cousins, and they can't throw with any real accuracy or power.

Meanwhile, a human can whip a rock hard enough to make a large predator second guess it's choice to attack.

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u/llee15 Mar 06 '25

True. Any MLB pitcher could hurt plenty of things.

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u/adrienjz888 Mar 06 '25

Exactly. Imagine how shook predators were when they started getting smashed in the face by some skinny monkey 20 ft away.

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u/Neon_Camouflage Mar 06 '25

Not even a pitcher. An untrained adult male has an average throwing speed of ~45 mph. That's still going to hurt plenty, and many can throw much faster.

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u/Loneliest_Driver Mar 06 '25

Actually hitting the target, however ...

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u/dWaldizzle Mar 06 '25

I once beaned one of my friends with a pebble, in the dead center back of the head, SIDE ARMED from about 50 ft away at recess in 5th grade.

Stupid in hindsight but the accuracy was biblical

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u/AetherialWomble Mar 07 '25

Back then people would grow up throwing rocks at things. They'd all be professional pitchers

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u/IAmTheQuestionHere Mar 06 '25

Can you tell me more about kangaroos having us beat on that?? Humans are the best at that, can you elaborate?

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u/joalheagney Mar 06 '25

Kangaroo legs are big bands of elastic sinew that store kinetic energy on landing, and release it on the next jump. Humans have this too, with our Achilles tendons, but kangaroos dial it up to 13.

Also when they bounce, their tails and head go down on the up-jump, and up on the down jump, meaning their centre of mass barely changes height.

So they're basically giant biological springs. Once they're up to cruising speed, they barely use any energy. They breathe in sync with their jumps, so they don't use much energy for that either.

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u/theremint Mar 06 '25

Kangaroos can’t make aeroplanes.

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u/HomsarWasRight Mar 06 '25

Yet.

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u/theremint Mar 06 '25

Christ you’re as bad as those chumps on the AI subreddit. Call me when Skippy has a seaplane. :)

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u/HomsarWasRight Mar 06 '25

No need to be an asshole. It’s just a joke.

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u/theremint Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

The smiley face tells you I was joking too. Come on!

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u/flyingthroughspace Mar 06 '25

Don't forget the brain!

We've been able to replicate flight, sonar, and other things that only certain species have using that wrinkled thing in our heads!

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u/AudioLlama Mar 06 '25

Also we have guns and aeroplanes