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  • The " I always wondered" thread

    well, lets see how long this lasts:

    The point of this thread is pure education. It is designed for people to ask question that they have always had and hopefully someone else can answer them, or point them to an answer.

    I will start:

    why are humans so physically weak when compared to other apes? A 200 lb chimp or orangutan is much stronger than a 200 lb man (a fit, healthy one, even a muscle bound one)..so, again, why is this?
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  • #2
    Hmm, good question. I don't know.

    I've always wondered why women say men never approach them but 90% of the time a man does they shoot him down before he even gets a word in edge wise.
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    • #3
      How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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      • #4
        as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
        If you don't like reality, change it! me
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        • #5
          Evolution...who needs brute strength when you can use your thumbs to make a weapon that can deliver 4, 8, 10, 100, 1000, 100000000 times the damage?
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          • #6
            Real answers please.Oh, and Shi, real question too.

            and do you have a question yourself?
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            • #7
              Why do hot dog packages come in 8 and the buns come in 6?

              And why do Germans in the movies yell "Halt!" for telling people to stop? This would be the correct command for the familiar form, but Germans in this situation would definitely talk in the formal. They would say "Halten Sie!"
              "The first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying, 'This is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors might the human race had been spared by the one who, upon pulling up the stakes or filling in the ditch, had shouted to his fellow men: 'Beware of listening to this imposter; you are lost if you forget the fruits of the earth belong to all and that the earth belongs to no one." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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              • #8
                Why are hotdogs so much shorter then hotdog buns? Shouldn't they be designed to be the same length?
                Last edited by Dinner; May 13, 2003, 23:47.
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                • #9
                  Argg!

                  Lets just hope someone from the meat packing industry works here.

                  (so much for high concept threads)
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                  • #10
                    How did Zylka get to be so ****ed up?
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by orange
                      How did Zylka get to be so ****ed up?
                      Now that WAS profound.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by GePap
                        Real answers please.
                        I think orange is on the right track, evolution is the key. For apes, strength is selected for, since strength determines which (male) apes can become alphas, so their genes get passed down.

                        For humans, this is no longer the case. In the course of evolution, only the more intelligent tribes could survive against all the natural elements, thus intelligence became the prime factor that is selected for.
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                        • #13
                          why are humans so physically weak when compared to other apes? A 200 lb chimp or orangutan is much stronger than a 200 lb man (a fit, healthy one, even a muscle bound one)..so, again, why is this?
                          I think it requires lots of energy and more brain time to operate more muscles. It's a trade off - we have more complex thoughts, while gorillas have a more complex muscular system. An ape-like muscular system would've been selected out of humans since it would've been a waste of resources.
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                          • #14
                            Do ape's have more muscles? Or stronger muscles?
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                            • #15
                              I've seriously wondered why people in the green movement haven't embraced nuclear power. It produces very little pollution and solves, what many of them considered to be, the great threat to the world today, global warming. I don't think GW will be nearly as big an issue as the pundits say but I would like to see fewer fossil fuels used.
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