Cool! I’m not entirely sure because I know little about it, but you may have actually brought up a valid point! It’s a shame we had to climb a mountain of snark and smartassery to get to that possibility.
It’s a battle of evolution: we lost our ability to do that, but have a decent reflex to catch ourselves from danger. It’s why I don’t fall off a bed. Even when that bed is a hammock on top of a tree.
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
https://www.healthline.com/health/dry-drowning
Sure but you can still drown wide awake.
spongebue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Cool! I’m not entirely sure because I know little about it, but you may have actually brought up a valid point! It’s a shame we had to climb a mountain of snark and smartassery to get to that possibility.
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
So you agree humans cannot, yet, breathe water.
spongebue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a battle of evolution: we lost our ability to do that, but have a decent reflex to catch ourselves from danger. It’s why I don’t fall off a bed. Even when that bed is a hammock on top of a tree.