Am I a joke to you?
And not just throw rock, also run very long distance.
Don’t forget sharp stick! Sharp stick game changer
Can’t overlook banging rocks together to get a sharper rock. Big tech, invest now!
It is funny how until the invention of
fire antsfirearms, almost always the best weapon was a pointy stick.Then firearms happen and we learned to throw the stick very quickly.
Fire ants are also a viable biological weapon, knew a guy who had a nest of the things thrown at him. Poor bastard had to take an alcohol bath to get them all off.
Who threw them and when? If it was an angry little half-Indian girl circa 1989, my wife is going to be deeply satisfied.
Nah it was back in the early 2010s and it was done by some dude in my class who promptly had the piss beaten out of him the next day, he changed schools the following week because the fire ant thing was a low blow and everyone ignored, was hostile, or in my case I snuck laxatives into his drink because nobody would snitch on me for it.
At summer camp when I was like 8 a camper stood in a fire ant nest without realizing it and had bites ALL up and down her legs. I remember a couple of older kids hauling her to the counselors while she was just screaming, crying and unable to walk from the pain. Watch out for fire ant nests, they will fuck you up!
I give you vine to attach to end of pointy stick, make you sling pointy stick much faster.
“Saying a big hello to all you sentient lifeforms out there and for everyone else the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys!”
And I’m gonna make it a lifeless hellscape for all of us, yay!
Nonsense. We’re doing for the cockroach what Big Meteor did for the Purgatorius.
Then man learned to fly. Then man learned to drop suns from the sky.
The white, African man learned to throw rocks. Yeah…
Idk, kinda looks like a neanderthal doesn’t it? Big brow, big nose, flat head.
Yes, I’m mocking the caption. As if Neanderthals learned how to throw rocks before monkeys or humans in Africa that came before Neanderthals.
Also cuts his hair and beard
It’s a Neanderthal according to reverse image searches for the original illustration. There were light skinned Neanderthals in Europe, so it’s not an inaccurate illustration, just an inaccurate caption
Perhaps a bit inaccurate image use with that description as well.
Yeah, that’s what I was trying to say in terms of the caption being inaccurate
Oh, yes, that’s clear actually, no idea why I thought I was adding to the convo, lol.
Shitposting.
Thank you
And watch as how I make my own fellow man’s life hell and ruin the planets ecosystem for everyone
Dexterity exploit speedrun.
I don’t think that is actually the innovation that made us own the planet.
One human throwing rocks? Meh.
15-20 humans working together, some throwing rocks, others fetching new ones, or supplying the throwers? Jup. That would do it.So, community and working together is what allowed us to win the crown.
We better not stop doing that…If you look at combat between predator/prey it’s nearly always about who can attack while further away. Being able to throw rocks and pointy sticks was I think equally as important as being able to develop co-operative social groups.
There are lots of animals that have cooperative social groups and they don’t rule the planet.
Very few can throw weapons.
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Communication, abstract planning, and being able to walk 100km without stopping is what really won it for us.
Yeah, there were studies done that found a human can’t reliably throw a rock hard enough to kill even a rabbit from pretty close range. Rocks are blunt and usually only stun the target.
It was the fact that a dozen people all throwing rocks is an unassailable obstacle to any predator or prey. You can corner animals or ward them away. And if you think about it that’s always been roughly how human wars have gone: masses of spears, slings, arrows, bolts, bullets, shells, missiles, etc. Our one big trick is a DDoS of violence.
Oop, looks like I just learned to hoy this fucking rock with some woven vines over much greater distances! I am clearly your god.
We won the arms race, we have literal arms
I threw a pinecone at a bird that was picking at the siding. Seemed to break his brain to see something coming at him like that.
you: throws pinecone at mach 30
birb: is-is that a… squints
birb: GAH! FUCK!!!
Big rock. Sharp stick. Squiggly brain.
Ug big smart hunter.
