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I was imagining the bird fighting back with your own spear... But truly, the thing that sticks out to me is that the spear is rather balanced in the bird's nec
by klyrs 3y ago
I was imagining the bird fighting back with your own spear...
But truly, the thing that sticks out to me is that the spear is rather balanced in the bird's neck. I imagine that if it had pierced a bit less, or a bit more, it could have thrown off the bird's center of gravity too much to achieve stable flight.
- eichin 3y agoThis is exactly classic survivorship bias, right? It's the kind of thing that usually works for the hunter (or they'd have learned not to do it), and the bird surviving to be observed far away is a combination of rare circumstances...
- HPsquared 3y agoIt makes you think of what must have happened to all the others. Must have been thousands / millions of bird-spear interactions per Pfeilstorch.