721

where's my damn plume (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 101 points 2 years ago

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

[-] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 2 years ago

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

[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 20 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Please stop bad-mouthing Americans, it's just self loathing at this point. It cannot be that black and white.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago

dont mention black and white around americans... one of those might shoot the other.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

How can it be self loathing if I’m not American?

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years 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.

[-] callyral@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

We'd end up making flying cars so we wouldn't have to fly ourselves...

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

this is literally how it works for birds, that's why you see especially pidgeons and corvids walking so often, they just don't need to fly a lot so they simply walk.