Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts (2014)

Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by rectang on Sunday May 06, 2018 @12:34PM (#17006994)

A horse is a massive mountain of muscle. It's thrilling to have one work with you and for you because of their power, but when things go wrong (like a horse falling on you), you will be caught up in something your comparatively weak hairless ape body can't counter forcefully.

The idea of hitching such a monstrosity to a skittish and ornery personality...

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by mlevental on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:40PM (#17007326)

>weak hairless ape body

lol i get your drift but i don't see what hair has to do with it (unless we're all biblical samson)

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by pilsetnieks on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:55PM (#17007399)

I think he meant the phrase "hairless ape" to be parsed together, to indicate human. Not a ((weak, hairless, ape) body) but a ((weak, hairless-ape) body)

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by rectang on Sunday May 06, 2018 @02:01PM (#17007440)

Yeah... It's a phrase from my youth. I thought I was channeling Douglas Adams or something like that. Turns out to have been Howard the Duck comics. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hairless%20A...

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by mlevental on Sunday May 06, 2018 @02:00PM (#17007432)

I get it but aren't there hairless apes that are very strong? I just meant it's the wrong poetic flourish

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by pilsetnieks on Sunday May 06, 2018 @06:46PM (#17009064)

The only references I can find to hairless apes (that aren't humans) are chimp that are either shaved or have alopecia.

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by krono on Sunday May 06, 2018 @12:41PM (#17007025)

Meanwhile I see every type of person from teenage girl to greying men texting/looking at their phone at 130 km/h in their aluminium box on wheels on a daily basis.

Humans...

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by Rumudiez on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:25PM (#17007257)

I think this is a pretty fair point. Cars are incredibly dangerous to others and many drivers completely disregard that. A 5-star safety rating doesn't mean anything to the pedestrian or cyclist in front of you, but people tend to act like it's no big deal since they themselves are unlikely to be seriously injured.

Risk homeostasis or risk compensation explains this behavior quite well, and I believe it's a very damaging affliction on our car-centric society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by perl4ever on Sunday May 06, 2018 @03:59PM (#17008174)

Before cars, when horses were the typical mode of transportation, they were quite dangerous too. I haven't done research to quantify it, but I've noticed while reading random articles on historical people in Wikipedia, that quite a few died falling off a horse. Even in modern times, the few people who ride horses often have accidents - I bet you can name a famous one without looking it up...

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Re:Wild Horses Can’t be Broken: Zebra Domestication Attempts... by avar on Sunday May 06, 2018 @04:14PM (#17008255)

    > A 5-star safety rating doesn't
    > mean anything to the pedestrian
    > or cyclist in front of you[...]

It does, the Euro NCAP now includes pedestrian and cyclist safety in their assessments[1].

1. https://www.euroncap.com/en/press-media/press-releases/new-l...

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