[Gllug] RSI: Was VACANCY: Site Reliability Engineering

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On 3 Mar 2009, David Damerell verbalised:

> On Monday, 2 Mar 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>HM-A's are way overrated.
>
> "Ergonomists agree that the most healthful position for the body is the
> one it assumes in a weightless state, when no other forces (chairs,
> gravity, high-heeled shoes) are acting on it."

BWA HA HA HO HO HA *wheeze* HA HA HA

> I gave up then. The human body is a bit of a mishmash of ape spare
> parts but manifestly evolution has not suited it for zero-G.

There is some evidence that if we're optimized for anything physically,
we're optimized for long-distance walking, and that we've been optimized
for that since before we were genus Homo (bipedalism predates tool
construction, for instance). I wish I could find the paper that compared
energy consumption over time for a pile of different species' movement
strategies and found human walking right near the top; there's not much
else that moves on land that can get the sort of distance we can get as
rapidly and energetically cheaply as us. You have to go to migratory
birds, insects, and fish to see anything better; and *they* can all
exploit currents/winds.
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