Can people fly?

Hey guys, so… what's up? And please don't come up with responses such as: 'The sky', 'clouds' or the common classic 'the ceiling'. Hope you had all your batteries recharged to face this new week, so let's bring it! Now I came up with a very unusual question, since you read the title (and if not, no need to scroll up). Its unusualness is not because of the answer -not going to fry the pill here- but because someone was smart enough to ask it in the first place.

Ever had that dream where your feet are off the ground and suddenly you are above clouds meeting mountains as equals? Light as a feather, people have said. I believe this is probably the most recurrent dream after the one standing on a stage crowded… and naked (mmm… another blog topic?). So, I guess is fair to say the idea of people flying wouldn't be too bad, would it?

But the reality is… we simply can't, we are doomed to be strapped to the ground and vehicle-dependent to try differently. Ok, I know I playing fool here if I insist, but for the sake of argument I'll do it just this one time more: 'Can people fly?'. And as a rush of voices drilling in my head I hear a solid: 'No, people can't'. Ok, no worries, now I get it. Now I feel compelled to dig in and to find all the reasons why people can't fly, probably if we can find out every single explanation why humans can't fly -on their own- we, in the very distant future, can work out something… right?

Believe it or not, some peeps have done some pretty weird explanations why people can't fly, from the very basics one to ones dealing with physics, formulas, equations and what not. We are going to know the surface about them and if you can come up with a new one, feel free to share it with the world (and, once you're at it, with the slightly less number of people who read this blog).

First, gravity… yeah, some laws simply can't be broken, not gonna be around the bush with this one, pretty basic. Two, lack of wings, this one is more of a workaround with gravity, a way of defying, just like airplanes or birds do… the questions arises, given our anatomy, if we grew wings (BIG conditional) would our bodies be capable of flying and steering in the air? Can't say if they would, maybe we'd be as graceful as a hypo doing ballet. Those are sort of the basic answers, but wait… there are more.

Wind can't keep us up, even with winds (I have no idea how to sustain this argument, the one who said it maybe have done the proper test with real human wings… just saying). Another explanation I read said something like, in all our thousands of years in the evolution cycle we never needed to fly… cool, I wish we had at one point the need, wouldn't you say? A fun argument stated we humans can't fly because we only use 20% of our brains, but if we used 100% we'd be able to fly using brain energy. Sorry, I don't know the units of that -brainjoules (bj?)- Can't speak for that argument.

As you see, science can be fun too, not only tells us what we can do but also it knows very well what we can't possibly do. Can you think of any other reason why people can't fly? Or maybe you can come up with a great and original response. If something hits your brain leave a comment in the section below and how know, maybe in the year 7865 we may start seeing the first steps in human flying evolution. Until then… just keep walking.