Then picking the exact correct thing
We’re also the absolute best at throwing.
Here’s another: the human ear is phenomenal at determining where in 3d space a sound is coming from. Most animals can only determine direction and can’t really place a sound vertically. Watch what your cat or dog does when they’re looking for the source of a noise, it takes them a lot longer.
the human *ears. we need both ears working together to determine the source of a sound.
teamwork makes the dream work, people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization
If someone wants to read an interesting (but complex) explanation of how it works
I’ve heard that this is the reason dogs will tilt their head when looking curiously at something, as this lets them better differentiate sound positions vertically.
I thought it was because their snout blocks their vision when they try to look downwards at something?
As a single dude, I can tell You, that’s not the only thing a human hand is good at.
Yeah, it’s really good at holding onto…hey, doesn’t that look like a giant–
Dick, take a look out of starboard, it looks like a huge…
Peter! Get your head in the game and quite staring at that enormous…
Wait y’all can pick the correct thing out of your pocket regularly? I’d say I have a 10-20% error rate. At least once a week I’m standing in front of the staff room door wondering why my car key is in my hand.
Then picking the exact correct thing
It can easily tell what item is a coin, but how much that coin is worth is hard for it to do. (Trying to grab a nickel vs a quarter, etc.)
Euro coins have different knurling around the edge of the coin for accessibility reasons. It has the side effect of helping a lot when trying to find the right ones blindly in your pocket.
Euro coins have different knurling around the edge of the coin for accessibility reasons. It has the side effect of helping a lot when trying to find the right ones blindly in your pocket.
South America too, right?
As an American, when I travel and see different shaped coins in different countries, some with holes in the middle even, just trips me out, seems to weird. We’re so used to standard round feels similar coins here.
A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?
A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?
When you’re jiggling around in your pocket for it and there’s other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.
I’m not saying there’s a 0% chance of figuring it out by touch alone, just that by touch identifying a coin (vs a not-coin) is a lot easier to do than by touch identifying what amount an individual coin is worth. (In the U.S. at least.)
When you’re jiggling around in your pocket for it and there’s other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.
Well, sure. Adding many variables usually makes anything harder to do. But that generally just means it takes a little more effort.
Are your hands horribly mangled or something? Am I bringing up something hard for you to deal with?
What’s in my pocket?
handses
I’m more curious about what’s in the box.
Pain!
Without love?
It is a quote from Dune
Gaius Helen Mohiam: The test is simple. Remove your hand from the box, and you die. Paul Atreides: What’s in the box? Gaius Helen Mohiam: Pain.
Ah. My original reference was to Se7en:
https://youtu.be/1giVzxyoclE(Warning, spoilers for a thirty year old movie)
My second reference was to a Three Days Grace song:
https://youtu.be/Ud4HuAzHEUc(Warning, song from … Maybe fifteen years ago?)
Oh yes Se7en, such a great movie 🍿 It’s really nearly 30 years old, damn… I still vividly remember when the film was in cinema.
Ohhhhhh, tricksy hobbitses. We hates them.
Exactly correct!
Also locating needed nightstand items in the dark of night
I must have gotten a defective one, then. My hand sucks at that.
Your tongue is also super tactile. We spend most of our toddler years discovering this.
You can look at anything around you, anyrhing, and your brain knows exactly what it would be like to lick it. Taste, texture, residue etc… it’s quite freaky
Oh and my thighs are really good at imagining my phone just buzzed.
Yeah, if you tilt your head back and pretend you’re shaking a salt shaker into your mouth, you will actually taste salt.
I don’t taste anything. Does it matter how hard I shake it?
You have to close your eyes, open your mouth wide and put your tongue out for the desired effect. Maybe it helps if you have some bystanders who cheer you on.
You can look at anything around you, anyrhing, and your brain knows exactly what it would be like to lick it. Taste, texture, residue etc… it’s quite freaky
my thighs
Thanks… My body doesn’t really need sleep anyway.
inner or outer?
You can look at anything around you, anyrhing, and your brain knows exactly what it would be like to lick it
Siri, how do I unthink a thought?
Alcohol, ridiculously large amounts of
Weed is better for forgetting. Alcohol is better for not caring.
When I was an adolescent, I dreamt that I performed oral sex on a woman by putting my entire head inside of her vagina. Turns out that cunnalingus is nothing like my premonition, but I certainly had the texture figured out.
The area immediately before your hand is also really good at letting you know the time.
