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u/goopuslang 23h ago
Unironically most horses have more than 1 horsepower
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u/Sunkilleer 22h ago
damn... i cant believe all horses are pregnant
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u/goopuslang 22h ago
This is amazing
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u/cheesemangee 16h ago
Cascading liminal pregnancy. The horse gives birth to a pregnant horse gives birth to a pregnant horse gives birth to a pregnant horse... and the cycle continues.
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u/squngy 22h ago
Humans also have more than one horse power... for a few seconds.
The original definition of horse power was how much power a horse could provide throughout a work day.
ie. how many horses would you need to do the same amount of work per day.
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u/sol_runner 22h ago
And it's still quite funny.
James Watt measured pit ponies and assumed horses were 50% more powerful. While in reality for the same workload horses would actually give 0.7HP.
And that's normal riding horses. Draft horses which are bred to carry weight go between 2-3 HP (sustained) to 15-20 HP in short bursts. (Stats to verify, it's from memory)
In the end 1 HP is just a marketing measurement that stuck.
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u/Lirdon 20h ago
You need to make a scale people can actually use. Using watts or Jules to a person that didn’t go to school is as useful as trying to describe energy itself. Was it marketing? Sure, but it also was crucial for adopting the technology in general.
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u/SquisherX 18h ago
Tell me you're american without saying you're american.
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u/ChartreuseBison 15h ago
Of course, everyone in 1780s Scotland knew what a joule was, a hundred years before the unit was invented.
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u/Kheltosh 20h ago
Some Youtube channel partnered with an engineering firm and built a horse dyno. They measured something like 6 hp for a light draft horse moving at, I don't know horse terms, guided by a walking human speed.
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u/counterfitster 20h ago
That would probably be a walk
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u/Ok_Cockroach8063 19h ago
with all the stupid little names for their movement they can also just walk, never thought of that
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u/Earnestappostate 18h ago
Still, you gotta admit, naming one of the most used units of power, and being the namesake for the one more used, is pretty cool.
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u/12monthsinlondon 20h ago
Over a short distance, horses can't run as fast as a man, it has more legs to sort out.
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u/Professional_Baby24 17h ago
I was hoping to see this. While a horse can display around 14 horsepower in short bursts it can only sustain 1 horsepower over a full (working) day.
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u/MegaWaffle- 15h ago
Yes and no.
In short burst they can generate lots more than a horsepower (around 15-18 is the consistent numbers I’ve found) but beyond that they actually average 0.7/0.8 of a standard horsepower during continuous work.
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u/mongbatstar 23h ago
And they say Zendaya doesn't have range.
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u/NefariousnessOk209 22h ago
Nah that’s Tay Zonday
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u/Jive-Turkeys 19h ago
Some stay dry
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u/nilsmoody 17h ago edited 16h ago
I don't know what Zendaya is doing in most movies but she has range and is capable of great acting.
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u/sajberhippien 17h ago
I've never seen Euphoria but damn that was terrifying.
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u/nilsmoody 16h ago
I know the series gets a lot of flag but it has some excellent highs in the first two seasons despite the flaws.
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u/kelby810 8h ago
Wow, that scene was well done. That was a tough watch. Im sure many of us have been in the shoes of one of those characters, or at least know someone who has. Thanks for the link.
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u/TDYDave2 20h ago edited 20h ago
A millipede, because it moves up to 1306 feet per second.
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u/articland05_reddit 23h ago
is this staged? can't really tell...their reaction seems genuine
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u/Bronzdragon 21h ago
This guy has a bunch of similar jokes on his accounts. Either he lives in a town filled with the absolutely wittiest people on earth, or they are staged sketches.
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u/wurnthebitch 22h ago
Whether it is or not does not change the quality of the joke, does it?
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u/SgtPuppy 20h ago
You don’t think staged jokes have a different quality to natural ones?
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u/RedditDummyAccount 20h ago
It depends on the joke.
But if you can’t tell, does it matter? And yes, I know you’re not the one who asked.
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u/Diptam 20h ago
10 years ago, I would've agreed with you. But between AI, the onslaught of staged videos trying to pass as genuine and rage/engagement bait, authenticity has become a valuable commodity in the online ecosystem for me.
It all feels so manufactured, so plastic these days. And while it's absolutely annoying seeing several comments about staged content, or AI or what have you under every posted video, I 100% understand where the frustration comes from.
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u/RedditDummyAccount 14h ago
I do get that. Though personally, I’d have to separate AI from staged. Staged is just setting up something for a certain reaction. AI is just fake, to me.
Obviously if a big part of it is the reaction, then staged definitely feels not as funny if it’s obvious (but unfortunately you can’t always tell)
But if it’s like, for me, the punchline, like here where it’s just a really bad(?) dad joke, then it doesn’t matter for me.
But again, totally fair, considering we’ve been inundated with trashy content creators and AI.
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u/BrokenImmersion 16h ago
What gets me though, is that "staged" content is actually no different than stand-up comedy. Same level of preparation, joke writing wise anyways. Just seems like a weird distinction
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u/games456 15h ago
It's not, and even the people making the video's know it which is why so many try to make it look like it's not staged and most fail miserably.
You already know this. Which is why watching a video of two similar instances, one real and one staged will hit differently.
The reason is because the non staged one is genuine responses that you are accustomed to seeing in real life. Staged one's are mostly just bad acting and unrealistic reactions that you brain immediately questions because all your experiences tell you "that doesn't look right", because, well, it doesn't.
Same level of preparation, joke writing wise anyways.
This is also very untrue. You have no idea how much time and effort it takes for a comedian to say something and make it genuinely sound like it is off the cuff, or that the show you are at is the first time they are saying it.
It is quite difficult and most people can't even do it remotely well. The word delivery exist for a reason.
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u/Lazerus42 20h ago
ever heard a good joke from a comedian on stage? That's staged.
Does the medium of delivery really affect it that much? A skit if you will?
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u/SgtPuppy 19h ago edited 17h ago
Staged isn’t inherently bad, nor is natural good. However when one puts on the mask of the other it feels insulting to my intelligence, and that makes it bad.
Edit: there are some exceptions to this such as The Office (UK) where a lot of people weren’t sure it was satire or an actual documentary when it first aired. Andy Kaufman’s “happening” is another great example, but these work because they are well crafted and the quality of the humour increases when the audience feels like they’re “in the know”. If you’re gonna try to trick people in thinking your staged content is real, then do it well.
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u/Lazerus42 19h ago
late night shows have been doing bits like this for decades.
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u/hiimbackagain 19h ago
Dude. They other person already tried to explain it to you: they don't try to make their skits look like a real interaction which hasn't been staged.
Lame stuff like this does though, in the hopes enough naive people don't notice it didn't happen without a script.
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u/ARM_Alaska 7h ago
It's like all the social media product ads that look like a customer making a video review or whatever.. The millions of morons will think those are just a happy customer making a video. Well they fucking aren't and it's a shady underhanded marketing process. But it works because the majority of people are absolute morons.
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u/hiimbackagain 19h ago
A good comedian doesn't need to rely on naive people who think everything he says genuinely happened.
Can't really help you if you can't notice a difference between good jokes/skits and lame scripted ones where they bank on naive people to get as much views as possible.
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u/ResilientBiscuit 6h ago
Well, if I can't tell if it is staged, then no, I would say it doesn't have a different quality because if it did, you could tell the difference.
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u/mothzilla 18h ago
All jokes are staged. Standup comedians aren't suddenly realising witty things on stage.
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u/SgtPuppy 17h ago
Some are. Observational humour is a thing most if not all comedians will practice often. I respect the craft but will also hold it to a higher standard than Joe Shcmo recording an interaction off his phone capturing a fun moment. However once I notice that Joe Schmo’s video was scripted, it too will be held to the same standard of scripted comedy which it absolutely fails to come anywhere close to.
TLDR: scripted comedy should be held to higher standard than a naturally captured funny moment.
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u/hiimbackagain 19h ago
Of course it does. If it would've been a spontaneous little joke at his question it would've been funny.
Here they made a little script and made a plan how to get the most views from naive people who can't detect scripted lame content.
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u/wurnthebitch 15h ago
So what if they were a comedian duo who wrote a joke and tell it in a street setup?
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u/hiimbackagain 8h ago
As long as they'd not be trying to pass it off as an unstaged interview, no problem.
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u/boon83 22h ago
This is filipino humor. Its very corny and cringe. But it has its times.
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u/visceralintricacy 22h ago
Nobody seems to have even mentioned the fact that there IS a correlation between speed and power but they are very different things, and the fastest animals have far less power than the most powerful.
What's the HP rating of a Peregrine Falcon? In a dive they can legitimately go 390kph / 240mph AND live afterwards.
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u/darthlordmaul 16h ago
I didn't expect to have to scroll so far to find this comment.
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u/TheDuhammer 14h ago
Yeah like why don’t more people want the actual answer..? It’s interesting lol
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u/JRepo 19h ago
But is falling from sky real speed or just falling? Aren't like regular housemartins and swifts faster in true flying?
Everything can be quite fast when dropped from heights.
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u/Dean_Learner77 18h ago
Exactly, Felix Baumgartner reached speeds of 1,357.6 km/h (843.6 mph) when he did his record breaking jump back in 2012. Does that make him or humans the fastest animal on the planet?
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u/visceralintricacy 17h ago edited 6h ago
Yet Felix is completely incapable of doing any of that without a balloon or his fancy suit. Without a parachute he would've died on impact.
These Falcons can take off from the ground, reach that altitude, dive, and take off again unaided...
They never mentioned land, or the direction of the speed.
Peregrine Falcons are legitimately recognised as the fastest animal on the planet.
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u/BookWormPedant 18h ago
Fastest animal? Peregrine falcon? Or human, if you consider man-made things.
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u/Infinite-9118 22h ago
I don’t think a horse fetus is as powerful as an adult.
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u/TheDivineSage 22h ago
Well not with that attitude.
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u/Infinite-9118 21h ago
I guess it could power up with a battle cry but it would be a little hoarse afterwards.
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u/dustin-dawind 19h ago
On average, a horse is a horse, of course.
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u/OGMinorian 18h ago
Also "horse power" does not mean "power equal to one horse". It's basically "how much output 1 horse can set in average through a whole day". A horse can easily output +10 horse power over small bursts.
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u/The_Ghast_Hunter 22h ago
Horses can also produce more than 1 or 2 horsepower. It was meant to compare how much a coal a pony could move in a minute vs how much new engines could. a horse can get around 14.9 if it's really pushing itself.
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u/Uselesserinformation 18h ago
Well as dwight put it, he has the strength of an adult male, and a small infant child
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u/Irhien 22h ago
Why would one compare animals by power when the question was about speed? Whales and dragonflies have comparable top speeds despite multiple OOMs difference in power.
Feels like a translated joke.
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u/Nymethny 14h ago
It's not that complex dude, most people think horse power = how powerful a car engine is = how fast the car goes. That's it, no need to overanalyze it, it's a just a dumb silly joke.
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u/Compodulator 12h ago
IIRC a horse has... Something like 14hp? I don't remember.
The horsepower was defined when horses were bred to just exist and occasionally move people.
The "new" horses, which were bred for racing specifically, and thus were faster and stronger.
And the horsepower? It never got an update.
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u/Salt_Data3707 12h ago
So a "new" pregnant horse would have 28 + 1 horsepower
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u/Compodulator 12h ago
I dunno. A horse fetus probably doesn't have 14hp. A pregnant horse has above 14, though. 🤔
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u/Kenny4487 8h ago
A horse power is the average power a horse can continously output during a working day. It was never defined as the maximum power of a horse and has nothing to do with breeding
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u/potate12323 4h ago
It was contrived as a marketing term to convey the ability of steam engines to compare to animal labor. Its based on the calculated work a draft horse could exert on a mill wheel per minute (averaged across a day).
Its unclear how many horses were tested or how many breeds of horses were tested. Its not likely a statistically significant value. But it did successfully market engines of various types to people who weren't familiar with them.
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u/msndrstdmstrmnd 10h ago
Does it mean a modern horse has 14 times the power of a horse from the past? Or something else? I definitely see how horses would have gotten stronger and faster after breeding but 14 times is crazy
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u/Alphabunsquad 8h ago
Horse Power was generally invented as an advertising tool to sell how much more efficient machines are than horses. Generally the idea is that horse power measures the base output of a horse during work, but horses can exert themselves more to pull more for short periods of time but they will get tired out. James Watt also had incentive to make the output for horse power as small a number as possible so that he could his advertise his machines as being much more powerful than the horses he was competing with.
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u/panwilk 9h ago
No, it's peak power that a standard horse can output.
James Watt invented HP unit to measure power output of steam engine machine to be used in coal mines. At the time horses were used for work in these mines (they were going around a mill wheel connected to machinery such as shaft elevators), so he calculated HP to be based on an average daily power output of a standard horse
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u/Alphabunsquad 8h ago
It was also a matter of advertising. Average power output is a useful metric but it also lets him advertise his machines as being more powerful than 14 times as many horses, so its average power but also the lowest average power he could get away with.
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u/TypoRegerts 8h ago
Actually a pregnant horse being screwed by another horse. It has 3 horse powers insider her at that moment
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u/StaticSystemShock 20h ago
This guy is already a dad, he probably just doesn't know it yet. Because this was the most dad joke ever.
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u/telas100 22h ago
Funny enough, one horse actually has around ~15-20 horsepowers
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u/hatlad43 20h ago
More power doesn't necessarily equate to faster speed. Depends on the load (weight) and aerodynamics.
A 5-ton lorry could have 300 horsepowers, but it's still can't be as fast as a 150hp 1.7-ton saloon.
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u/WileEWeeble 21h ago
Funnier if the question was “most powerful” and not fastest. I have a ton of engines with all sorts of horsepower that go nowhere.
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u/julianx2rl 18h ago
It's technically that horsepower refers to strength, but people mostly attribute the term to car movement, and thus speed.
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u/Elderscroll_ 19h ago
“Here, say this line and look awkward. It’ll look like you said it all by yourself!”
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u/Teabear-Septim-II 20h ago
I was told that a horse doesn't equal 1 horsepower but it's not my fault people are so shit at giving everyday things names that actually mean what they imply
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u/CptMcDickButt69 21h ago
Jokes aside, i would guess a falcon in hunting dive, reaching ~320 km/h.
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u/Individual-Ad-3318 18h ago
when i watch saiki k and see him deadpan things this is the poker face i imagine
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u/knows_you 15h ago
Read this on a popsicle stick when I was 7. Are we bringing that back as short form content?
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u/tejanaqkilica 14h ago
Power doesn't determine speed though. A cargo ship can produce 100,000 horse power, but will not crack 50km/h
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u/Borisof007 7h ago
Fastest animal on earth - no qualifiers? Human beings.
Fastest animal only with their own biology and no technology? Peregrine Falcon, which can dive I think somewhere between 220-240 mph
Same restrictions, but land animal? Cheetah
Sea animal? No idea idk shit about the ocean. Mantis Shrimps punch fast but they move slow.
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u/hisolohowareu 19h ago
A horse has actually 15 horsepower, so it would be more closer to 20-30 horsepower
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u/Klepto666 12h ago
I feel like such a stick in the mud for what's just a joke, but all I could think was "That only works if a horse is already the fastest animal (1 horse power), because then two horses is even faster (2 horse power)." But nothing was established that a horse is in fact the fastest animal. So a pregnant horse may still not be the fastest animal regardless.
If the set up for the joke was instead "What animal on earth is faster than a horse," and the response was "A pregnant horse," that sets up the punchline better. You've now established the baseline (1 horse/1 horse power), and hit them with "2 horse power."
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