Re: Helmet efficacy test

On 3/25/2025 11:07 AM, Shadow wrote:

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:36:02 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
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On Mon Mar 24 17:13:48 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

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I'm stating my opinion in a discussion group. You should be able to
tolerate that, especially since over the years I've backed up my opinion
with mountains of data.
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Please note that your statements above, about the nasty "leftover
affects" and "you can fall over bad just barely moving" apply exactly as
well to running. Yet I'll bet you'd hate hearing that all runners should
always wear a helmet when running.
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The only real difference is you haven't yet expressed your hatred for
running helmets.

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    +1
    I would never use a helmet. Not in this climate. It's too hot,
my hair would become pudding.

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Frank, you deo not run, do you? The entire human skeletal structure is designed by God specifically for running.

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    God ? LOL.
    Our "system" was "designed" to walk on all fours. Divide the
weight among 4 limbs.
    Then tens of thousands of years ago a right-wing monkey
decided to show the others it was bigger and better and stood up. Put
it on social media and it became a "thing". Everyone wanted to be
"bigger and better".
    Half the others voted to make it mandatory. And it still is...
    Which is why knees and feet wear out so much and  people
complain of lumbago.
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 I'm about as far as one can get from creationism or "intelligent" design, but there is a bit of a gap in the fossil record for the nuchal ligament. It's been observed in Homo Erectus fossils, but no previous hominids, and interestingly is on several other mammals very far removed from Humans. For the uninitiated, the nuchal ligament attaches the base of the skull to C7 and helps keep you head steady, especially while running. Mammals that run well have a nuchal ligament, Mammals that don't run well do not.
 Cats, dogs, deer, horses, rabbits...all have a nuchal ligament.
 Pigs, sheep, primates other than humans don't have one.
 The question is how H. Erectus made the 'leap' to running ability, showing not only the nuchal ligament, but other developments removed from our evolutionary ancestoers such as shoulder muscular structure detaced from the skull, hip structure to support larger Gluteus Maximus, Achilles tendon elongation...all help humans to become more efficient runners..
 Curiously, there is also a massive gap in the fossil record for helmets.
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