Monday 11 April 2011

Amazing Human Feats (Physical)

I was reading about the London Marathon on the BBC News website, and there was an article discussing whether the 2-hour marathon time will ever be broken. This got me thinking... What other amazing physical feats have humans accomplished?

1/. Bruce Lee could snatch a dime off a person's open palm before they could close it, and leave a penny behind.
Bruce Lee was one of the first people I thought of, and someone who's always fascinated me. This is quite simply an amazing thing to think about. Lee was known for his phenomenal combination of speed and strength. Hell, when filming him they had to use 32fps instead of the usual 24 because he was too damn fast.

2/. Usain Bolt holds the current World Record for the fastest 100m sprint: 9.58s.
This is ridiculous. His average speed is 23.35mph. Average. From rest. I just can't bend my head around the statistics of this. Just look around you, find something about 5m away (a door is 2m, use that as a guide). In under half a second, he can run that distance. O_O

3/. Martin Strel has swam 313.5 miles (or 504.5km) of the Danube in 84 hours and 10 minutes.
That's continuous swimming, no stopping for anything. That's 3.5 days. I get a tired if I have to run to the shop 500m down the road, or if I stay up till the early hours finishing some work.

4/. Wu Zuyou holds the fastest time for blowing up a balloon with the eye.
Okay, that last one's no so much of an amazing feat, but it's damn impressive. The Guinness World Records doesn't have the actual time, but it goes on to explain the balloon was inflated by "blowing" air through the tear ducts, and the balloon was 16.1cm in diameter. I've been looking for a video for hours of this... Must See D:


Inspiring or depressing? Do you know of any other impressive feats of mankind? Can you do anything special yourself?

24 comments:

  1. Wow some of these are pretty amazing! Bruce Lee is such a boss, there's far too many examples of him being a boss for me to even pick one to give!

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  2. wow, those fact are pretty interesting

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  3. bruce lee is such an inspiring person!

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  4. Wow. Ok the blowing a balloon up with your eye thing is pretty crazy lol

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  5. Awesome facts man! Holy F**k... Bruce Lee really WAS a ninja haha!

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  6. if bruce can do that, what about ip man

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  7. great blog. nice post. following

    incredible-mo.blogspot.com

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  8. blowing up a balloon... with... what now? sounds disquieting.

    Thanks for the follow, I like your blog!

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  9. I'd probably trip on my own feet and fall on my face if I tried to run any faster than 15mph..

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  10. Oh my god number 4 is making my eyes hurt so bad. I can't even watch people put in eyedrops >.< I remember seeing a thing on TV where a guy would like drink milk and squirt it out of his eye. Oh god, okayokay

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  11. man, you forgot about chuck norris...

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  12. Blowing up a balloon using your eye? How could you even build up enough pressure like that?

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  13. I still dont fully understand the eye-balloon blowing thing. Seems ridiculous.

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  14. I mean.....I can't fit my fist in my mouth. Anyone want to 1up that? Didn't think so. Nuff said.

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  15. Man i remember watching bolt and just being blown away.

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  16. That is just amazing. I remember Bolt, that guy is absolutely insane.

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  17. No one should be able to blow up balloons with their eyes.

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  18. I always was a fan of Bruce Lee.

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  19. nice info, following for future goodness!

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  20. time for a new post my friend :)

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  21. Thanks for all the comments guys, I'd usually reply and and when, but illness knocked me back the past few days. New post is up, there'll be another on Saturday. I'll be catching up with the blog world in the next day or two.

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