Admetus

Admetus t1_iwfivbe wrote

Saw a replay video outside a swimming pool of occurrences of near drowning.

It's all kids and they just go underwater with hands above their head. Videos like that are educational because it increases your hazard awareness. It's not morbid because all children were raised and fished out promptly before inhaling any/much water.

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Admetus t1_ivdzixu wrote

All thanks to agriculture (or if further back, the hunter-gatherer beginnings of man)

I heard also that two legged and furless results in less consumption of nutrition.

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Admetus t1_ivdhb95 wrote

My baby loves to kick and play with their toes more than their hands. The hands and arms are just too complicated to operate at 2 months (except for basic grasping)

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Admetus t1_ivdgri4 wrote

It's amazing really. When you compare the size of a baby's head to an adult it's incredible how much their brain develops. It makes a lot of sense that the newborn is sort of an instinctual primate from the beginning and then through nutrition and nurture becomes a human being.

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Admetus t1_iu812ow wrote

Depends. Warn first. "HOT! Touch it. Ouch!" Then if child tries, you give them a good prompt. "HOT! Don't touch! Ouch!"

Now, controversially, some parents will then let the child have free will and find out what it means to put your hand in the flame. Yes, there will be blister burns. But that will be a lesson learned for life.

I once touched a soldiering iron. I learned to be careful of soldiering irons for life. 🤭

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Admetus t1_ist33xj wrote

As long as airspeed is high enough. Put a plane on a treadmill in a wind tunnel I'm sure it can take off.

It's probably a gap in education regarding physics making people assume that relative ground speed has anything to do with taking off.

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