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Medical fact, an obese person can last 3 weeks without food as long as they have water.
The danger here is of course rapid weight loss causes some problems, like a lot. However a person who is fit and fat like a Sumo Wrestler, can withstand the debilitating effects of Rapid weight lost.Quote:
Can live from 3-weeks up to 25-weeks and more without food depending upon initial health and amount of fat
Five miles and hour isn't running, thats jogging. Ehh... you are right about the thousands of miles, I just checked my book and cross referenced it with the internet, 11th century historian, wrote about messengers that would run a thousand miles to deliver a message. Turns out their maps weren't accurate with the distance. Rather irrelevant though. You don't seem to get how little distance mammals can cover in a day.Quote:
Who ever ran thousands of miles? The Greek historian Herodotus, the main source for the Greco-Persian Wars, mentions Pheidippides as the messenger who ran from Athens to Sparta asking for help, and then ran back, a distance of over 240 kilometres (150 mi)[10] each way. It does not mention the time it took, so he may have ran at 4-5mph the whole time. So please show something to back up your claim, because you still haven't shown that a man can run for 4 days at almost 20mph the whole time.
20-30 miles in a day is considered good for a horse, but is very tiring for it. 50-60 is the number for the best bred horses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
Other sites verify this, you can't push them any farther then this without them dying.
However the current record for the farthest run in a day is 153 miles.
And even that 200 miles in 2 days is better then a horse.
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Argh! Look what you did! You got me off on a red herring! That is unethical! You don't even know what Endurance is, Endurance is how long you can push yourself! It has nothing to do with being wounded or any nonsense like that!
The point is that humans are really good at Persistence hunting, and they are good at Persistence hunting because they can keep going without stopping better then any other animal or at least land animal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
And this matters because when you want a monster, the scariest are the ones that never give up!
Completely irrelevant, wings aren't arms and birds fly they don't walk. If you want to talk about birds then look at the Ostrich. They don't make good monsters anyway, their bones are all hollow and spongy.Quote:
How long do you think you can hold your arms out? How many days? The majority of birds that migrate from the arctic to the tips of the antarctic maybe stop twice the whole way. So for a distance migration of 43,000 miles they basically hold their arms out the whole way, could you do that? Could any human do that?
That might matter if they exerted energy while standing, or at least more then they do while laying. But they don't, four legs mean they are a platform. There is no exertion, so no it doesn't matter.Quote:
en-dur-ance
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1.
the fact or power of enduring or bearing pain, hardships, etc.
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the ability or strength to continue or last, esp. despite fatigue, stress, or other adverse conditions; stamina: He has amazing physical endurance.
Run a marathon then sleep standing on the legs you ran on, spend a whole week doing nothing but standing on your legs. This is a sign of endurance.
Pretty irrelevant to Endurance since this is Resilience not Endurance, but whatever. I don't think there is a difference of significance at all. What matters is three things, one weight, two how you hit the ground and three brittleness. Thats it, nothing more, nothing less whether you are human or animal its the same. Because our bones are all the same strength, the difference comes to weight distribution and brittleness, both vary dramatically animal to animal, a pig for instance is practically identical to a human. Take a human and take a dog, same weight, drop them from ten feet and assume they land on their feet.Quote:
Learn some anatomy, most animals of 160+ lbs can survive higher falls than humans can and take far more trauma and survive than humans can.
If the human lets his knees bend on impact, then the human distributes the force across far more area reducing trauma, if the human rolls, then he is directing the force even further away reducing trauma even more.
The Dog can bend his knees, but he can't roll, however his has more points of impact due to the greater number of legs, though his bones aren't quite as thick as a Human's legs, I'm not sure how that will play out, my mind has at least one leg snapping. Mainly because Dogs yap a lot when you drop them and they never seem to roll or anything. I guess I could go grab my dog, climb up the roof, throw him and then jump off myself, see which one of us is hurt more. I think the dog will be.
But it really doesn't matter, the tensile strength of our bones are all the same and brittleness varies too much. Lighter animals however always have an advantage over heavier animals. And humans are not in the lowest tier when it comes to head trauma resilience, I'm pretty certain we are just below mid-teir.
Wait a sec, you seem to be forgetting something. You need to remember to thicken the man's bones beyond what a normal human has, since our bones are not meant to support 550 pounds unlike a deer's.Quote:
Again anatomy says, no. If you were to hit a 550lb person with a car at 50mph they would die. Human bones are slightly more brittle than most animals, most animals have somewhat flexible bones that keep them from breaking so easily. Also just because you think layers of fat might protect someone of that size does not make it true. A person of that size would suffer from bruising of the internal organs, internal bleeding, possibly a broken neck, quite a few broken bones and hemorrhaging of the brain. Unlike a deer they would not be able to continue to live a long life.
