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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:40:01 -0500
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On 3/25/2025 10:34 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
> On 3/25/2025 11:07 AM, Shadow wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:36:02 GMT, cyclintom 
>> <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon Mar 24 17:13:48 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm stating my opinion in a discussion group. You should 
>>>> be able to
>>>> tolerate that, especially since over the years I've 
>>>> backed up my opinion
>>>> with mountains of data.
>>>>
>>>> Please note that your statements above, about the nasty 
>>>> "leftover
>>>> affects" and "you can fall over bad just barely moving" 
>>>> apply exactly as
>>>> well to running. Yet I'll bet you'd hate hearing that 
>>>> all runners should
>>>> always wear a helmet when running.
>>>>
>>>> The only real difference is you haven't yet expressed 
>>>> your hatred for
>>>> running helmets.
>>
>>     +1
>>     I would never use a helmet. Not in this climate. It's 
>> too hot,
>> my hair would become pudding.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Frank, you deo not run, do you? The entire human skeletal 
>>> structure is designed by God specifically for running.
>>
>>     God ? LOL.
>>     Our "system" was "designed" to walk on all fours. 
>> Divide the
>> weight among 4 limbs.
>>     Then tens of thousands of years ago a right-wing monkey
>> decided to show the others it was bigger and better and 
>> stood up. Put
>> it on social media and it became a "thing". Everyone 
>> wanted to be
>> "bigger and better".
>>     Half the others voted to make it mandatory. And it 
>> still is...
>>     Which is why knees and feet wear out so much and  people
>> complain of lumbago.
>>     []'s
>>
> 
> I'm about as far as one can get from creationism or 
> "intelligent" design, but there is a bit of a gap in the 
> fossil record for the nuchal ligament. It's been observed in 
> Homo Erectus fossils, but no previous hominids, and 
> interestingly is on several other mammals very far removed 
> from Humans. For the uninitiated, the nuchal ligament 
> attaches the base of the skull to C7 and helps keep you head 
> steady, especially while running. Mammals that run well have 
> a nuchal ligament, Mammals that don't run well do not.
> 
> Cats, dogs, deer, horses, rabbits...all have a nuchal ligament.
> 
> Pigs, sheep, primates other than humans don't have one.
> 
> The question is how H. Erectus made the 'leap' to running 
> ability, showing not only the nuchal ligament, but other 
> developments removed from our evolutionary ancestoers such 
> as shoulder muscular structure detaced from the skull, hip 
> structure to support larger Gluteus Maximus, Achilles tendon 
> elongation...all help humans to become more efficient runners..
> 
> Curiously, there is also a massive gap in the fossil record 
> for helmets.
> 
> Add xx to reply

+1

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