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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 102 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If people had wings and could fly it would be considered exercise and nobody would do it.

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Americans wouldn't do it, the rest of the world would

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was about to be offended and then I remembered how I got out of breath walking up the stairs this morning. (To be fair, I'm anemic af and almost certainly have a touch of long covid, but still.)

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's just something about stairs that gets me. I can run a sub hour 10k, hike 15+ miles a day, and my resting heart rate is in the 50s, but stairs always get me winded.

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My french teacher in high school said that everyone gets winded going up stairs, cause people who are fitter walk up the steps faster

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago

This just solved it for me. That is exactly it. I've been angry at stairs my whole life and now I realize it's because I go up them as fast as I walk- which is considerably faster than most people I know.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Stairs are different muscles. I used to work at a dam where I would have to climb 20 flights of stairs/ladders multiple times a day with 80 pounds worth of tools on me. Before then stairs were difficult for me, now I can run up that with that much weight no problem. I haven’t worked there for a year but I also can do sub hour 10k (barely) but those muscles stay with you as long as you stay on your feet regularly during the day.

If it’s an issue for you I suggest weight training up and down the stairs you have available to you (in your house maybe?) 5 minutes a day with a couple 20 pound weights up and down those bitches and you’ll make walking stairs your bitch for the rest of your life. If you can do a sub 10k you have the willpower to do it if you want to.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Why would I fly for twenty minutes when I can drive for an hour 🙄

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes. Burgerlanders are very averse to any level of self improvement that might be difficult. I blame the car culture propaganda more than I blame the people though.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

I’m tall and fairly light. Skipping steps helps a lot with efficiency.

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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago

If you look at birds like the kakapo, they would've had flight in the evolutionary past, but evolved out of it due to lack of predatory threat.

This can be part of Island syndrome, where the dodo also suffered from, till sailors came around and found out they were tasty.

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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Plato is gonna be fuckin pissed

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Between this, my stripes, and my tail.. all things I have genes for, but no activation...

I'm kinda pissed, being human could be far less cringe

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Humans do have stripes but we ourselves can’t see them.

Look up Blaschko lines

[–] ashley0_0@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

isn't that only true for XX chromosome people?

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[–] MBM@lemmings.world 4 points 1 week ago

Unless you have the right skin condition I don't think they're visible in any wavelength

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I’m good on the feathers I read the goosebumps book about learning to fly and it gave me a preview of my trypophobia when R.L. Stine described the feathers growing out of the main characters skin

ETA: it was “chicken chicken” not “how I learned to fly”

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh? I just read this book and that was not in there. The kids just drank a potion and then could fly, there was no outward difference to them. Maybe you are mixing up a different one, like the chicken one? We just started that so idk how it goes. The cover has the girl as a chicken though.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ahh I checked the synopsis and you’re right I definitely got it mixed up with another. I need to find it now.

ETA:Definitely the chicken one jeez it just gave me goosebumps

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

MF walking one way into getting a pile of teratomas

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My guess is they mean we have the genes to encode the proteins, since we have similar keratinized tissues like hair and nails. But probably not the hox genes to encode the structure

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well then put the box genes in me so I can have a damn plume

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stunning creatures, sea lions.

Wonderful plumage.

Fierce Creatures (1997)

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's certainly something stunning and wonderful in that picture all right

I also have a thing for short guys in glasses!

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This sounds like a fun PhD project

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

No funding. Less fun

[–] python@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want the damn feathers for the social aspect! If we were allowed to preen each other, the world would be a better place!

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While we're on the topic, we all have very slightly webbed digits, multiple involuntary reflexes for when we get wet, and a nasal/respiratory system that is (partially) adapted to swimming. I wonder how far our DNA could be pushed to pad out what was started here?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Our throat region seems poorly thought out. As somebody said recently, tube food goes in or you die is right next to tube food must never block or you die.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The fact that billions of us still get that right hundreds of times a day is honestly pretty fucking insane, with how delicate that whole setup is

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Sometimes when I'm chewing a mouthful of food in the car it occurs to me that if I suddenly get in a wreck I will have no control over my gasp reflex.

[–] Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Quick someone get CRSIPR therapy

[–] kryptonidas@lemmings.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

What does that even mean, you have like “four letters” and dna strands of millions long. Like how selective do you have to be. I’m sure you can basically write anything that way.

Are there entire chunks that are inactive that would give feathers, that at some point gave feathers to our ancestors?

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago

All things DNA is full of code that doesn't get activated and is just passed on anyways

Gene expression is what they mean by "activated"

Basically think of it like having a library of instruction books and only grabbing a few of them to do the project that needs done.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

I recall that scientists reactivated chicken genes for teeth and grew a toothed chook

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[–] MashedHobbits@lemy.lol 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll settle for hair regrowth.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

OTOH it would be kind of cool to look like the hawk man on the old Buck Rogers tv show.

[–] Wofls 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now go into a forrest with flint and boom

infinite ammo

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Just need two chickens, a dispenser, and a redstone clock for infinite chickens

[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Is this true ? It doesn't feel true with my current knowledge.

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