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submitted 4 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.ca

The fastest human on the planet might be a quadrupedal runner at the 2048 Olympics, which may be achieved by shifting up to the rotary gallop and taking longer strides with wide sagittal trunk motion. More generally, investigation of quadrupedal running will not only result in the development of new techniques that allow biomechanists to study locomotion in natural settings but will also reveal the underlying principles of how these runners accomplish their astonishing performances.

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[-] Ifeelya@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Nah bro, these 7 data points are trending downwards, therefore we can totally project with 95% confidence that humans will be running a sub-6 second 100m on all fours by the year 2100.

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Ok I think I’m getting it. So if a human runs on all 8 legs it should be a 3-second 100m right?

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