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Intellectual Debate
Submitted 4 weeks ago by CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Talk about back pain.
xia@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Good posture is VERY important in this case.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
I… what the fuck am I looking at… ?
Lehmuusa@nord.pub 4 weeks ago
I… what the fuck am I looking at… ?
It’s the human centipede. But giraffe.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Sorry, but I have no clue how this character functions at all. Ask Oda (One Piece creator) about this. 😁
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah… the Smiles are pretty fucked up.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So I am an expert in alternative digestive systems. It loops down into the human then back up into the geraffe. That’s so the human segment can be vomited at a predator as a defense mechanism m
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This a giraffe with an elaborate head ornament.
Mesophar@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Good ol’ Hamlet! Anytime one of these “what if centaur but different” posts come up I think about him
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Good ol’ Hamlet
…that play is apparently VERY different from how I remember it 🤔
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Looks 2d to me.
AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
nosk from hollow knight
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I don’t like it. But it’s probably #2. Centaurs replace the neck of the base animal with a human torso.
nodiratime@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Considering the curios Giraffes Recurrent laryngeal nerve, I would say so too.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But then the torso wouldn’t be so long.
Cellari@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You have to have the long neck, or it’s not a giraffe man thing
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What if it’s some other type of stupid long horse
Cellari@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Stupid? No good sir. *cue music My Horse is amazing…
cmhe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
False dichotomy.
Centraur is when the neck of an quadruped animal gets its neck replaced by an human upper body… So the giraffe centaur would have neither a long human stomach, nor a long human neck.
It is reductionism to say that something isn’t a giraffe, if it doesn’t have a long neck part. Shame on you! 😉
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah. Everyone knows giraffe centaurs share the ears and ossicones of giraffes, but not their long necks and legs.
It’s more like the ancestors of giraffes that had not elongated yet. Oh, and pretty long tongues too.
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Number 2 would fall over.
Right now a giraffe needs 600lbs of neck muscle to hold up a 50 lb head on a 6 foot neck.
There is no way the giraffe’s neck could hold a regular human torso. Forget a proportional one. It’s not possible.
Picture for scale. A regular human torso would look comically small on top of a giraffe.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Came here for this. #2 would bend over once and be down for life.
Not to mention those front knees would be under tremendous pressure, even just normal walking would be punishing.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, maybe. Or they’d have the most developed 42 pack abs you’ve ever seen.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What about very developed neck flap sails
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You don’t even have to get into the weight.
Mammals have at most 4 limbs. Centaurs would have 6 limbs, and the mammal brain never evolved to handle that many.
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yes but there’s a chance
Lehmuusa@nord.pub 4 weeks ago
A centaur has explicitly horse features until a certain point, then explicitly human features from that point onwards.
That would mean the upper part not being allowed to divert back to horseness/giraffiness, as the left pic does.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
But right would also be wrong, because the torso is elongated instead of the neck.
I suppose a giraffe centaur would be considerably shorter than either of these images suggest.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
So, the left pic without the long neck? Makes the most sense to me.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So, the horses at Fenton’s (where the horses are hung like you) are centaurs by that definition?
bort@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
centaur have human shoulders and neck and head. And horse body without neck&head
so the first one is right, except with human neck
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Are you implying standard centaurs don’t have horse necks?
mrmisses@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, have you not seen a standard centaur before? Sheesh
yakko@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
My wife and I frequently bond over a mutual hatred of giraffes. I think this meme just got me laid tonight
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I’m glad you two monsters found each other. I hope your kids grow up to love giraffes.
yakko@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The family that hates together ungulates together!
cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
So why do you two hate giraffes?
yakko@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Here the thing. You ever looked into a giraffe’s eyes? There’s nothing there, they’re mentally vacant. They make deer look like they read the New Yorker. The fight with their necks, which is dumb, but it’s even dumber that their evolutionary gambit worked at all. You wanted to eat the leaves, you got tall. Your medals are in the mail, giraffes. Gold medals with sarcastically long neck ribbons. It makes me sick. They’re no better than camels, and don’t get me started about those filthy bastards.
bss03@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Stupid long horses. /ref
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as you and me, the bones are just much longer.
An actual giraffe centaur with human torso from the animal’s chest up would just be a long-legged spotty horse centaur.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s posts like this that just reinforce the idea that centaurs are freaky creatures.
Why a six-limbed creature? Actual mammals have at most 4 limbs. What does it eat? Is the stomach a horse stomach or a human stomach? Does the human head have to eat 15 kilograms of grass per day, munching it inefficiently with its human teeth? Can it just blend it up and drink vast quantities of smoothies instead? Are the centaur’s front limbs massively strong, unlike a horse, because it has to support a whole secondary torso right at the front of its body? Does the whole body have the same notoriously finnicky immune system and fragility of a horse? Where’s the heart, is it in the human chest or the horse chest? If it is running hard will it be the human chest that’s panting, using those tiny lungs to power an entire body? Or is there just an air tube down through the useless human chest all the way to the horse’s mighty lungs? If the lungs being used are the horse ones, what’s all that room in the human chest being used for?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
6 limbs implies that centaurs are insects.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The human-looking part is probably just a lure, like those deep-sea lantern fish. A human gets close enough to investigate and the insect pounces.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This post changed me.
MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The centaur diet consists mostly of meat, so they require fewer plants to survive. But plants are very good for their health, preferably root and leafy plants over grains, nuts, and fruits, but they can still enjoy any diet.
Centaurs used to prefer to eat only raw meat and alcohol, but after contact with humans they developed a cooking culture, preferring methods like spit roasts over methods like boiling, but they still enjoy a good stew.
Foods that are toxic or harmful to horses but not to humans are not a problem for centaurs, such as garlic, onions, avocado, chocolate, bread, dairy, and the brassica cultivars.The upper torsos of centaurs have secondary lungs and a second small heart that help support their brain and make it less likely that they’ll faint during heavy activity, with an esophagus leading to the stomach and a thick trachea leading to larger lungs, both on the second torso.
Their esophagus moves food faster than a human esophagus does, so eating something sharp that could scratch their esophagus is more harmful to them, so it’s more important for them to really chew their food well. Unlike horses, centaurs can vomit. Their upper torso has none of the other vital organs humans have in that area, leaving more room for muscles, which gives them their massive upper body strength. When a centaur appears to have a belly, there’s no interintestinal fat there; it’s all abdominal fat.
The lower torso has all other main vital organs, and a larger heart and lungs similar to those of horses, and the thicker trachea allows them to breathe faster. Centaurs often have large nostrils and a slightly elongated face to allow for faster airflow.
Their livers are more similar in function to those of humans and sledge dogs, giving them high endurance. They can run without rest far longer than any other creatures they know.
Their lymphatic and blood system, on the other hand, is more similar to that of horses.
Unlike humans, centaurs do not lose muscle mass due to lack of activity, mostly due to illness or lack of nutrition.There are some variations depending on what ‘taur’ is their lower body, but these are the common traits shared among all tauric species.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Why would the giraffe have a 6 foot torso?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Yeah, what’s going on inside there?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why don’t you have six foot torso
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well obviously I do but I’m not a giraffe.
Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Neck has to be long. if torso is long that’s biologically impossible you die of low blood pressure to the head
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
No.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
the first, obviously
heartpunk25@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
of course
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
related, what would a human-human centaur look like?
rethnor@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Didn’t they have those in dungeon crawler Carl?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
that was what inspired the question
so my thoughts are tainted. I want fresh opinions
rethnor@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I think it would look like a dude with two torsos stacked on top of each other. My logic is a centaur replaced the neck and head of a horse with the torso of a man. So if you replace the neck and head of a man with the torso of a man… Mantaur
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
so still only one pair of legs, then
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Imagine a guy crawling along on the ground, except where his neck would be there’s a second torso attached, and it goes upwards so that as the guy crawls the second torso is vertical.
0x0@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Asking the real questions.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The first one. The second one is way too top heavy to be practical.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
And what if they wear pants?
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is actually so tricky. My instinct said “right hand side would be impractical, so no way” but then I remembered they evolved long necks to get to food so it makes sense to evolve arms there to better feed themselves.
My little cope against this is:
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Centaurs use their arms to wield and craft weapons. This would make them much better suited for the left hand option, where they can try for body strikes against centaurs rather than just decapitation. It would also make them actually useful against any foes which aren’t birds.
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From an evolutionary and physiological standpoint, arms growing out of your neck is unrealistic. You don’t have the structural components to support it there - the neck is too busy supporting the head and it’s pretty crowded up there. Arms are typically attached to a broadened torso-skeleton, built to support lateral attachments as well as the longitudinal attachment of a head and neck.
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Jerkface@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Both, and they’ve been at war with each other for millenia.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately, we would probably get stuck with the first one, which wouldn’t be much of an evolutionary improvement.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The second one. The magic that created them would fortify their muscles.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yes
slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
first option because the equivalent of giraffe neck would be human neck.
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Image
:3
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Only correct answer.
Centaurworld is probably one of the best Netflix shows
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hush now, hide, all you little ones Rush now, into the middle of nowhere Singing and laughter will die.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Netflix sort of went to shit so I’ve been off it for a while.
Is this an outlier or do they actual serve anything decent these days?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Centaurworld nailed it. Next question