Comments on: Usain Bolt vs. A Cheetah

By: Katy

Katy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:49:22 +0000

Thanks Eileen, I needed this for my science homework, I’m sure to get a good mark now!

By: Chuck Norris is a LOSeR

Chuck Norris is a LOSeR — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:58:28 +0000

i m stupid

By: Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:31:20 +0000

Thankfully no one raised my name there. I would like clarify that I am not human, but superhuman.

Chuck Norris vs Silverback.

By: Rukaria

Rukaria — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:47:33 +0000

Thank GOD people hav brains huko nje! Ths Bolt vs Cheetah thing ended me in a 3hr argument wth my pal, WILO n Collo, KU, Bsc Tourism Mngment!! (Yah, I am namin names) Bright fellows, wilo @ least, or so I thot. N 2 thnk they r studin Tourism, whch entails 1 2 hav Knwldge in Wildlife! 2 him, he saw it so it mst hav bn true, ati coz it ws in a documentary!! I mean, CMON!!!! A cheetah?? A CHEETAH!!! Sigh! Thank God 4 this!! Thank GOD!!! Am gona hav a field day wth ths!! Hahahaha!!

By: rocket man

rocket man — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:27:16 +0000

check out John Wall vs Jet Fighter on Google, here is a 62 year old man running against a Jet Fighter Aircraft and beating it over 60 meters.
Try that on for size!!!!!!

and yes He could probably beat a Gorilla Tooo over 5 million meters.

By: z3

z3 — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:02:22 +0000

haha good article….I think god made us physically weak because we have superior brain power, and that is the king of everything…..we are the rulers of this planet through our brain power….there is no way usain bolt could even dream of beating a horse…..and I bet my 80 pound dog could tear mike tyson to pieces

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:02:27 +0000

A full grown Gorilla would rip out your testicles and stuff em down your throat before you had a chance to land one punch.

By: Mike Sylvester

Mike Sylvester — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:57:32 +0000

Well I am a bit if an authority on this so here goes..
The common sense view (as this site points out) is that a gorilla would pulverise a man in one on one combat.
However one has to take into consideration motivation. Animals are not vindictive, and once they have vented their frustration or got what they want they calm down pretty quickly.
In a ‘fight’ with MT even with a huge weight/strength advantage the gorilla may loose or even back down. Sufficiently motivated the gorilla could make short work of a human. In studies gorillas have fled in fear before much smaller animals.
Incidentaly the notiion that chimps have 5 times human strength is a popular myth. The average human can lift approx. 150 lbs chimps cannot lift 750 lbs. There is much duscussion on this but the fact is that pound for pound a chimp IS stronger than the average human but weaker than a strength athlete.

By: Hamlet

Hamlet — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:06:45 +0000

Re. Post #31 You’ve never read Tom Brown’s account of chasing down a deer: Chase the deer for a little while, pretty soon the deer goes into the woods and you loose site of it, then it comes out with a friend or two, then circles around and goes back into the woods, comes out with another friend, goes back in, comes out alone, or, maybe it’s one of his friends, you loose track of which animal you are trying to exhaust, then you give up in futility. ~Humans are an arrogant bunch of fucks as there ever were.

By: Kickertisch Martin

Kickertisch Martin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:00:22 +0000

Mike Tyson had a full force of over a ton with a perfect strike. If you hit a gorilla right on the chin in the right angle with that force he will buckle as any other species too.

By: Antonio Garcia

Antonio Garcia — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:33:05 +0000

It’s amazing seeing a Cheetah in full speed

By: Eileen Jones Rules

Eileen Jones Rules — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:44:54 +0000

I remember when Eileen Jones started out, writing about office life in Putin’s Russia, and I thought it was really boring. Then came the move to Panama, and all these movie reviews, and I had to admit that they could be quite witty and insightful. Now she writes about an apparently endemic subspecies of Internet stupidity I’ve never even noticed, and it’s brilliant, and I don’t even know why! Eileen Jones, I genuflect in your general direction.

By: aleke

aleke — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:47:38 +0000

Humans fucking own, I don’t care what kind of bullshit they became after the agricultural revolution. Run that fucking gazelle down to exhaustion!

By: The DarkAvenger

The DarkAvenger — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:42:40 +0000

The one area where we have our fellow fauna beat all hollow is killing other members of our species in new and exciting ways.

Think about it: The male lion who takes over a new pride, killing and eating all the cubs left over from his predecessor is St. Francis of Assisi compared to what mankind has done to his fellow man on all the worlds continents(except Antarctica, perhaps) if you look at the last 160 years or so, let alone all of our history, from the Sumerians onward.

By: CB

CB — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:38:08 +0000

@34: What you call “gutless”, I call “brilliant”! =D

I <3 unfair numerical advantages.

Mike Tyson could beat up a gorilla… if he had 5 heavyweight champion friends with shotguns to help! Not my fault the gorilla didn’t think of gunpowder!

By: Frankenblank

Frankenblank — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:38:05 +0000

Some of you seem to be missing the point of these stupid debates. It’s not ‘Can we beat them because of our weaponry and social cohesion?’, the answer to which is obviously yes, but ‘Can we beat those animals on their own terms?’ That is, can we outrun a cheetah barefoot, instead of in a Ferrari? Can we outfight a gorilla in a brawl, rather than shotgunning it? The answer to the latter type of question is ‘no’. It only even gets asked because people are a bunch of deeply hubristic retards who think that having a really big brain translates into having the fastest legs on earth and the toughest fists. (And in making such an error they prove people are not even very intelligent in the first place.)
It’s a complete non sequitur to what’s being discussed to turn up here and say, ‘Yeah, but we’re much tougher if you count our technology and gutless habit of ganging up on things.’

By: f

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:38:44 +0000

Another important advantage that humans have is our ability to chuck things. We have pretty amazing eye-hand co-ordination, not to mention hands and shoulders capable of rotating in just the right way.

Sure, we can’t beat a gorilla ape-to-ape, but we sure can pelt him to death with heavy, pointy things.

By: Slavich

Slavich — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:10:43 +0000

Reply to comment #6

Here’s a video of a guy hunting an antelope by chasing it to exhaustion, on foot. The hunt took over eight hours, but the man prevailed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI-9RJi0Qo

By: CB

CB — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:41:46 +0000

@10: Cheetahs can go from 0 to 100kmh in 3 seconds. They have ridiculous acceleration.

@23: That Nature article very closely resembles one I read back in the 90′s where they hypothesized that human endurance running was critical to our evolution and to our hunting.

@28: Actually, if Usian Bolt wanted to have a nice dinner of venison, he probably could pretty easily as long as he started early enough in the day.

As article linked in #23 states, humans have a pretty efficient jogging gait that is between most prey animal’s trot and gallop. So a human chasing after a deer can stay in his most efficient gait, while the deer would have to periodically speed up to an energy-intensive gallop to stay ahead. Combine this with our natural advantage in heat dissipation, and its only a matter of time before the deer collapses from heat exhaustion. At which point the human can simply walk up to the helpless animal and bash its head with a rock.

Think about that from the deer’s perspective, and I’m imagining that humans were a pretty terrifying creature even before we started carrying pointy sticks.

It’s funny you should mention dogs them because wolves are another animal that has an ‘in-between’ gait and are known to use a similar hunting tactic. This could have been a factor in domestication.

By: Beerina

Beerina — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:41:47 +0000

> I can beat a gorilla… if we play chess

Bastard.