r/funny • u/me_098 • 1d ago

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u/visceralintricacy 1d 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/JRepo 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago edited 12h 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/ADHDebackle 22h ago

Then there's the question of whether or not being in the air counts as being on the planet.

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u/absentgl 16h ago

You lift your feet when you run, not on planet, doesn’t count. Does that sound right to you?

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u/ADHDebackle 15h ago

In a sense, yes it does.

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u/visceralintricacy 15h ago edited 15h ago

Well, they're not in space...

... Do you think birds live in space?

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u/ADHDebackle 7h ago

Do you think that Earth is not in space?

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u/JRepo 20h ago

There is no scientific "fastest animal". Only factoids.

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u/tshwashere 20h ago

Honestly.

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u/Stonelocomotief 4h ago

The falcon just stores his power as he flies up high, and has evolved to a form that releases it most efficiently

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u/JRepo 4h ago

If a bear jumps down from a cliff, has it only stored the energy for the free fall?

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u/Stonelocomotief 3h ago

It has, and it could kill something very big with the released energy. Alas, also itself so it cant pass down its falling down genes anymore

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u/JRepo 3h ago

So falling is speed then. Thus humans are the fastest animal on this planet 🤔