So, who would win in a fight?
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Do the astronauts have any muscle atrophy from living in space without gravity...?
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but I understand that astronauts are picked to be small, to fit in small spaces,
Damn, shoulda remembered that. Especially since I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid (original, huh?), but had my dreams dashed when I passed the maximum height in the 5th grade.
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It would be a good fight most likely. The caveman is a brute, he'll go for close combat. The astronaut most likely has training in various fields and he's a hell of a lot smarter. The caveman would kick ass while the astronaut would go MacGuyver on him.
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Originally posted by StakeTheLurk:
Although I seem to have come down on the caveman side & I agree that they would be physically more robust than the astronauts, let's make one thing clear:
Cavemen did not hunt dinosaurs.
That's right! The dinosaurs hunted the cavemen!
Alas, this is purely hypothetical, since we never saw Mal and Jayne fight. Much.
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If a caveman and a astronaut were in a fight, who would win?
The caveman, 'cause if the caveman was in space with the astronaut, then the caveman could throw the spear and then the astronaut's suit would have a hole in it, and then all the air would come out. Then the astronaut would not be able to breathe, and then the astronaut would die 'cause he could not breathe.
(The above answer to this very difficult question was put forth by my six-year old Sonisall)
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Quote:Maybe the new astronauts are weaklings but the old ones had to fly aircraft with no fly-by-wire controls, which meant they had to have lots of strength to manipulate the controls. As for fighting dirty guys like Ilan Ramon, Buzz Aldrin, John Glenn etc would probably have no problem with it, these were men who bombed and strafed people and dueled to the death with enemy pilots. Some of the first Russian Cosmonauts lived thought WWII, they were some tuff mofos and have no problem with fighting “uncivilized”.
Originally posted by embers:
but I understand that astronauts are picked to be small, to fit in small spaces,
and when I saw the recent show at the Air & Space Museum about the current work done in space, they were all little tiny men (and women)
who lift weightless stuff all day, and are not muscle bound (fitting into tiny places...)
Plus cavemen fight dirty, and to the death,
I'm not sure civilized educated people are really up for that kind of all out rough and brutal battle....
Also someone said they wouldn’t win since they couldn’t react fast enough to a threat; again these guys were battle hardened fighter pilots, trained to realize and react to danger in a split second.
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Originally posted by GunRunner:
Maybe the new astronauts are weaklings but the old ones had to fly aircraft with no fly-by-wire controls, which meant they had to have lots of strength to manipulate the controls. As for fighting dirty guys like Ilan Ramon, Buzz Aldrin, John Glenn etc would probably have no problem with it, these were men who bombed and strafed people and dueled to the death with enemy pilots. Some of the first Russian Cosmonauts lived thought WWII, they were some tuff mofos and have no problem with fighting “uncivilized”
but if you're talking about the guys (the Astronauts) who lived through WWII then you would be talking about some REALLY old guys (like in their 80s and 90s now)
while cavemen all died before they were 30 so would, by definition, be young and strong....
okay okay...I know if we are talking about fighting TODAY then we couldn't even find any cavemen at all...
so I guess it is fair to have the cavemen at their peak, and to pick the strongest astronauts who ever lived....
but still, no weapons (that was specified on Angel) ...
so I'm still taking the cavemen to rip out their throats with their bare teath and beat them to death with their own arms....
just sayin'
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Another thing: The argument was actually who'd win cavemen or astronauts. This implies it's multiples of each. I think that decidedly gives the advantage to the astronauts because in a multiple person battle strategy is essential. I know cavemen could work together (and did when hunting mammoths or mastodons or whatever), but strategy for killing a single, large, dumb animal is different than planning a battle against other thinking creatures. So, as many people have said, it would really depend on what the exact situation is. It could go either way depending on what the exact parameters of the combat are.
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Maybe the new astronauts are weaklings but the old ones had to fly aircraft with no fly-by-wire controls, which meant they had to have lots of strength to manipulate the controls.
Not to disagree about the strength of the original astronauts, but they were small men. A few years ago I saw the Liberty Bell capsule that was orbited by Gus Grissom. The space they gave him was teeny-tiny. How they ever fit him in there, I don't know. I couldn't have fitted one of my thighs in that space.
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Quote:Yes they were small, but small size doesn’t necessarily mean that they are at a disadvantage. Being smaller means they are harder to hit and are faster. They can simply out run the cavemen and attack when they are ready.
Originally posted by Ursula:Quote:
Maybe the new astronauts are weaklings but the old ones had to fly aircraft with no fly-by-wire controls, which meant they had to have lots of strength to manipulate the controls.
Not to disagree about the strength of the original astronauts, but they were small men. A few years ago I saw the Liberty Bell capsule that was orbited by Gus Grissom. The space they gave him was teeny-tiny. How they ever fit him in there, I don't know. I couldn't have fitted one of my thighs in that space.
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