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Re: Evolution of the human foot and bicycles
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His Highness the TibetanMonkey & the Spirits of the Jungle
Sep 6, 2010, 12:46:54 PM9/6/10
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On Sep 5, 6:36 pm, ScienceW...@Apikoros.Org (ScienceWins) wrote:
> Saturday I hiked Golden Cup Nature Trail and parts of Cedar Canyon Trail
> before looking for a ravine to spend the very warm night in, hopefully
> along a stream for evaporative cooling.
>
> Heading down the mountain on my bicycle at high speed along curves my
> back brake cable snapped and then the front cable snapped, probably
> because I was carrying five containers of drinking water taken from a
> spring, each container 7 pounds. In a pack on my back, at night in
> the dark swerving around skunks and trying to avoid bears in the dark.
>
> My shoes hit the pavement and I could smell the rubber burning, then my
> filthy socks ripped away, then the calluses went until I got down to
> the meat until finally I got to the lip of the canyon and laid the
> bicycle down to let my jeans rip up some until I stopped.
>
> From there I walked on my bleeding and blistering feet for a couple of
> miles which took me an hour, favoring at least one broken toe on the
> right foot until finally I had enough and got a ham radio operator to
> call my wife for transport the remaining 22 miles.
>
> Question: Does human evolution favor people who do not drive cars? Some
> 50,000 car-related deaths in the United States every year. Does human
> evolution favor people who do not smoke? Some 50 people die from smoking
> or smoking-related illnesses in the US every hour. And yet statistically
> those numbers are insignificant since the majority of those deaths had
> already passed on their genetic codes to the next generation, right?
>
> http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects...
>
> If I had been required to run down my meals on foot, the broken bicycle
> brake cables would have meant my death by starvation simply because
> my feet were maladapted to serve as brakes, a failing I blame on all of
> my ancestors who came before whose feet were not weeded out of the genome.
>
> ---
> Does belief in astrology cause stupidity?http://www.skeptictank.org/edm.htm
> Always pull up survey stakes -- Edward Abbey
> Saturday I hiked Golden Cup Nature Trail and parts of Cedar Canyon Trail
> before looking for a ravine to spend the very warm night in, hopefully
> along a stream for evaporative cooling.
>
> Heading down the mountain on my bicycle at high speed along curves my
> back brake cable snapped and then the front cable snapped, probably
> because I was carrying five containers of drinking water taken from a
> spring, each container 7 pounds. In a pack on my back, at night in
> the dark swerving around skunks and trying to avoid bears in the dark.
>
> My shoes hit the pavement and I could smell the rubber burning, then my
> filthy socks ripped away, then the calluses went until I got down to
> the meat until finally I got to the lip of the canyon and laid the
> bicycle down to let my jeans rip up some until I stopped.
>
> From there I walked on my bleeding and blistering feet for a couple of
> miles which took me an hour, favoring at least one broken toe on the
> right foot until finally I had enough and got a ham radio operator to
> call my wife for transport the remaining 22 miles.
>
> Question: Does human evolution favor people who do not drive cars? Some
> 50,000 car-related deaths in the United States every year. Does human
> evolution favor people who do not smoke? Some 50 people die from smoking
> or smoking-related illnesses in the US every hour. And yet statistically
> those numbers are insignificant since the majority of those deaths had
> already passed on their genetic codes to the next generation, right?
>
> http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects...
>
> If I had been required to run down my meals on foot, the broken bicycle
> brake cables would have meant my death by starvation simply because
> my feet were maladapted to serve as brakes, a failing I blame on all of
> my ancestors who came before whose feet were not weeded out of the genome.
>
> ---
> Does belief in astrology cause stupidity?http://www.skeptictank.org/edm.htm
> Always pull up survey stakes -- Edward Abbey
Humans became bipedal for a reason...
To ride the two pedals.
Seriously, the bicycle is Intelligent Design, but Humans are Stupid
Design --if they were created.
Thus the next step in Evolution is the wheel...
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