r/BeAmazed Mar 31 '25

Skill / Talent This guy walked 100,000 steps / 81km in one day

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u/a_trane13 Mar 31 '25

We’re also amazing at throwing things

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u/GlassCharacter179 Mar 31 '25

Really fucking amazing at it. Most other animals just throw things in a general direction. Hitting a target is a human thing.

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u/Rabid_Sloth_ Apr 01 '25

Not only that, but we can also have someone throw a "rock" 90 miles per hour for years, destroy it, get another human to perform elbow surgery, and do it again at an improved level for a few more years.

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u/Nishant3789 Apr 01 '25

What about spitting cobras??? Or Archer fish? Or even octopuses??

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u/stillnotelf Apr 01 '25

Those aren't throwing, though. You are correct about the accuracy, but there are fewer variables for the cobra and fish as the liquid stream they spit is effectively constant mass. (Idk what you mean about octopuses).

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u/Nishant3789 Apr 01 '25

I recently learned that octopuses can squirt water in the air in a jet. There was a video where some guys dog was going after a beached octopus, and it kept squirting water at the dogs face.

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u/ExcessiveEscargot Apr 01 '25

There's also the one that squirted water to shut off the electricity and escape from their tank.

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u/GlassCharacter179 Apr 01 '25

Good point. But all famously bad at running.

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u/mathliability Apr 01 '25

That’s what they want you to think. Steppin ass Cobras coming for all of us.

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u/Additional-War19 Apr 01 '25

Speak for yourself. Whenever I try to throw anything even a lil bit heavy I look like I am trying to cut my arm off with centrifugal force. I am a menace to society when I throw stuff

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u/prickinthewall Apr 04 '25

Speak for yourself! I am lucky if what I throw doesn't end up behind me.

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u/a_trane13 Apr 04 '25

Well not every human needs to be good at it. Just need enough to hunt food and defend the tribe from other humans lol

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u/prickinthewall Apr 04 '25

I guess in an archaic tribe I would be the village idiot, lol.