One Shot SciFi 1655 - Intergalactic Athletic Contest | HFY | Humans are Space Orcs

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This Story is Classified as HFY or Humanity Feck, Yea , but what does the Mean?
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HFY is a story/series that takes a “human element” in either humanity or an “other” (race/species or object) that exists in a “setting” (future or other world/universe) with varying levels of culture, technology, society and history that help show in some shape or form the potential good or bad for humanity’s race/culture. In These stories Humans are often referred to as Human, Humanity, Deathworlder, Hellwolder in reference to the human planet of origin , Earth. This planet is seen by most of the universe as a place where only death and chaos can survive.
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Humans Are Space Orcs (HASO) or Humans Are (Fantasy Race) Are used as a guide when writing.
In these Stories we normally View humans like the other races view orcs in a Fantasy Novel. We (Humans) share the same characteristics and personalities as orcs. Humans are normally treated as the outsiders and barbarians. Humans tend to be underestimated as well in these stories. Unlike Humanity Feck Yea , these don't always put a positive spin on humans\humanity sometimes looking at the darker side of human and humanity from the perspective of aliens.
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[@PyroMancer2k]

When it started out with a "distance" competition and they were talking about how they didn't think humans would go very far all I could think was, "You guys obviously haven't met an endurance hunter species before." :)

[@ledocteur7701]

and when they talked about the "incredible" 5 meter throwing record I was like : "wtf is that bullshit ? a moderately healthy 90 year old in a wheel chair could beat that record with minimum training."

[@PyroMancer2k]

@@ledocteur7701 Yep. Basically two competitions humans evolved to do. Most primates are good at throwing things.

[@sbritton1313]

Someone didn't do the math properly, if Julie was running, she would have cleared the 43 kilometers in about 2.5-3 hours... Especially if the average pro long distance runner is 5 minutes per mile, and the average non pro is about 7... Only explanation is if she is speed walking.

[@jeremymcadams7743]

@Chaotic Phoenix well the rules are as far as possible, no time limit

[@skadoodle8503]

​@@sbritton1313 she took a detour

[@gManGabe]

An endurance contest followed by rock-throwing? Did no one research the monkeys before letting them in?

[@Ariemius]

I'm sure a couple of people did and came out very well on some bets.

[@m.a.x.2444]

@@Ariemius 😂

[@erushi5503]

Who needs tails for balance when we have one of the best internal biological gyroscopes(next to cats and birds)

[@lobsangthegod8371]

I bet this is the one that he found out that he could run faster than any of the other aliens so he starts his race Halfway after all the other competitors are finished. They also talk about how humans have marathons.

[@AugustoEL]

When it started i thought the same. One of the comentarist is the same that in that story.

[@theconney1512]

the hfy is called the human race

[@lobsangthegod8371]

I stand corrected this is a new one for me

[@vocalsforever]

Close its more about our being a endurance predator

[@Pip8448]

That's the story I'm trying to find! Human office worker hears about the athletic event coming up in a month or so and asks their co worker about it. Gets a smile on his face and basically says "watch this" and starts secretly doing running training for the event.

[@almar8874]

Gryon's got a long wait. 6 hours is nothing: Dean Karnazes holds the record for the longest distance ever run by a human without stopping. In 2005, he ran 350 miles (563 kilometers) across Northern California in a time of 80 hours and 44 minutes. Though Karnazes has run the furthest straight distance ever recorded, it’s a woman who holds the record for the longest amount of time running without stopping. In 2013 at the age of 47, New Zealander Kim Allan ran around the same park 332 times which took her 86 hours and 11 minutes. However, though it's not been put to the test, it has been argued “humans can run forever.” If a human can stabilize the following trifecta for the duration of a run, there really is no telling how far they could go without needing to stop: VO2 Max - amount of oxygen a person can use as energy Running Economy - energy used at an aerobic pace Lactate Threshold - the point at which your body utilizes lactic acid instead of oxygen for energy and accumulates faster than the body can remove it Meaning some people, such as the fastest marathoners, could essentially run forever if they jogged slow enough. This is because when the intensity is kept low enough, they are able to keep fatigue from setting in at all. Ultimately it's not our bodies that stop us - it's our minds. The need for sleep, as well as our mind willing us to stop long before our body would need to. The longest recorded time without sleep is approximately 264 hours, or just over 11 consecutive days, set by Randy Gardner, a 17-year-old high school student, in 1965.

[@alganhar1]

To be fair Karnazes is a true Outlier. I do not mean that in a bad way to be clear. The man is on the extreme edge when it comes to endurance for humans. He is not the fastest in the world at those distances, but for crying out loud, 50 marathons in 50 days! Most people would cringe at one a YEAR!!! His sheer endurance is on a level that few, if any, can really compete with. If I remember correctly medical tests showed that his muscles are more efficient than usual at dealing with Lactic Acid buildup, it enables him to push further than the vast majority of us can. Sure, he still feels the pain, but later and his muscles deal with it better than the vast majority of us. If I remember he also recovered from microtears and the like to muscle fibres and tendons much more quickly than most humans can. Been a while since I saw that particular documentary however, so my memory is a little foggy there, and I literally cannot remember the name of it. Remarkable guy, while his genetics certainly play an important role it still does not take away from the fact that he still pushes into and past the pain just like any other serious athlete does. Genetics is only of any use if you train and have the mental strength to utlise your advantage to the fullest, and Dean Karnazes has done exactly that. So don't feel like I am trying to insult him in any way by bringing up those Genetics, it was not my intention to denigrate his remarkable achievements, simply to point out he is an outlier. What he does would outright kill most of us!

[@AugustoEL]

They aliens will have to ask the humans to stop running. "Please human we require you to stop running so we can procced with the other competitions"

[@almar8874]

@@alganhar1 Maybe he's an outlier, maybe Kim Allen is too. So I'll have to add the Tarahumara, a Middle American Indian tribe residing in the remote, mountainous Copper Canyon of Northern Mexico who are known for their long-distance running ability. Running is ingrained in the tribe’s culture and gives way to a perfect example of what people are capable of in terms of running when it’s weaved into daily life as opposed to a way to stay active like most of the rest of us do. Though there isn’t one individual in the group who holds a specific record for longest distance run (that we know of), there certainly isn’t another group of people in the world who can collectively run the distance they can. According to research from Lehigh University, it is not uncommon for Tarahumara individuals to run between 50-80 miles per day to complete everyday tasks.

[@KT-pv3kl]

We are almost 8 billion. We have probably thousands of those extreme outlyers that arent even known due to living in extreme poverty or in remote areas. If memory serves me right we have entire communities in africa that are essentially as good in endurance running as trained marathon runners purely because of their environment and way of life they adapted to be extremely good at long distance running.

[@gabrielpardo4229]

"Humans cantheoritcallt run forever" The pebble in the shoe: "my time has come."

[@taith2]

Ok, now i want whole Olympics broadcast story, someone make it happen

[@Psalmster023]

Absolutely that would be hilarious!

[@crownedcrow7745]

Only one minute in and the first announcer's voice being legit hyped as he talks about how excited his co-announcer is to talk about this upcoming event only for the second voice to actually sound like they hate their job and are ready to go home just makes my day. I never would've done that in my head while reading.

[@FaceD0wnDagon]

To be fair, throwing and distance running are absolutely 100% humanity's jam, so kudos to the writer for their research on that. Given what we've seen on earth, we would not win contests of raw strength or explosive speed, but we do very well with dextrous precision and endurance. (That's not to say humans are weak or slow, but we are not the strongest or the fastest. We are *very* good at thermoregulation during exercise due to sweat, though, and we're basically the only species that can throw things with purpose.)

[@turbopokey]

I had hoped that the announcers would have mentioned some of the upcoming contests like "eating many small cooked protein cylinders in a fluffy baked carbohydrate holder" or a "hitting a small ball with a weighted club then walking after it" contest...

[@molag-ballordofdomination2065]

Who even likes golf

[@turbopokey]

@@molag-ballordofdomination2065 I know, right? But apparently there's some mf'ers that are really into it.

[@weirdredpanda]

I would like to see a continuation with other competitions, like jumping, swimming, etc. Of course, in the future galactic contests, humans may be excluded to give other species a chance, because humans would always win. The victories wouldn't mean as much to the other species because they would know that humans will always be better.

[@johnnymellon7414]

I'd imagine a trained oversized space octopus will swim at least as fast as our local common octopi, and those already can go around 40km/h...

[@spaceengineeringempire4086]

@@johnnymellon7414 though might be based on distance as well so I say we may win if no other species can make the 20km mark before humans then ya humans win again.

[@AugustoEL]

Nah better humans at the least position are thirth but in everything. In other words if humans are not the best at that they are breathing in the neck of the best, and leaving all the rest far behind.

[@nuru666]

Imagine how popular the Olympics would be in this scenario. Every 2 years thousands of alien reporters show up on Earth and the galaxy watches us do the most insane shit

[@weirdredpanda]

@@johnnymellon7414 Yeah, I should have left out swimming, because almost every Earth mammal is better at swimming than a human.

[@willgallatin2802]

Drat! The runner needed to have Gump for a last name, and Forrest as an ancestor.

[@matthewklestinski7030]

Always a good time to listen to the tales told of "the unstoppable Humans". HFY!

[@LordGertz]

This reminds me of the HFY story about the galactic swim meet that had its first human competitor.

[@bearstarpresents2264]

The one where he won in a couple seconds because it was an endurance competition? Yeah that one was great.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

Did someone forget to tell the Xenos that humans evolved on a planet that forced them to specialize in endurance running and throwing things?

[@loganshaw4527]

I am still wondering who would do better a major league pitcher or a NFL quarter back at throwing at a target?

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

@@loganshaw4527 If it's a moving target, I would say the NFL Quarterback. If it's stationary, I'd say the MLB Pitcher.

[@loganshaw4527]

@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim indeed I would give the edge to the quartback for distance but I would give the pitcher a edge for accuracy. Lol the floating ring did back up enough to see how far the pitcher could go accurately.

[@loganshaw4527]

@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim the other question who would do better with number of good throws?

[@loganshaw4527]

In the story the pitchers throws a perfect 50 throws but what is his max?

[@jeanannd]

Distance, run at an even slow pace and you can go far.

[@peterwall8191]

Nice concept dude and very well narrated as usual, but! Professional spots is business. Big Business. With millions riding in each meeting, no one is ignorant of the competition. They have watched them compete, they have watched them train, they know every quirk, every weakness, everything physical or psychological that can give them an advantage. Their training is customised scientifically, for maximum performance. Everything is monitored, from their diets to the sleep schedules.

[@AugustoEL]

I am goning to be nice and just say, yeah probably that is in the real world. This is fiction (and a short fun story at that) suspension of disbelif.

[@SeedlingNL]

That's within a species though. This is a cross-species event where they mostly are trying to beat their own race's score, as the top species in each category likely won't change. Unless a new species shows up, ofcourse.

[@Wolfrover]

Conversions for the non-metric crowd, with comparisons for scale: Gryon of Tolwek reaches a distance of forty-three kilometres. That's 26.7 miles. Note that this is actually longer than a standard marathon of 42.195 km, so it's very respectable. The current world record for a non-stop distance run is 560 kilometres, roughly 350 miles, run over 80 hours and 44 minutes (over three days) by Dean Karnazes in 2005. Ghru of Jeknal gets his last accurate throw at four metres -- just over 13 feet. The standard pitching distance for major league baseball is 60 feet, 6 inches -- 18.4 metres. The world record for the baseball throw is 445 feet and 10 inches -- over 135 metres -- set by Glen Gorbous in 1957.

[@ianhogben3472]

there's a reason races have distance limits

[@fm56001]

560 KILOMETERS BY THREE DAYS???

[@Lord_Azrekahl]

Now I really want to tune in next time to hear about more events! Too bad I only get the intergalactic sports channel every so often. 😄

[@roboticintelligenceunit1a652]

Wait, since it’s an endurance test, is it just frowned upon to just… *walk?*

[@Egeslean]

Not just endurance though but also distance, so while we could walk forever we'd cover far less ground in the same amount of time.

[@hanzzel6086]

​@@Egesleaneither way, they're gonna have to add "fastest" if they want to compete!

[@omegastar2508]

​@@Egeslean But there is no time limit

[@Egeslean]

@@omegastar2508 Yeah, that would kind of defeat the purpose of an endurance trial if it had a time limit. Once you're unable to keep going, that's it, you're done, you don't get to rest a while and then start again, cuz that would also defeat the purpose of an endurance trial.

[@omegastar2508]

@@Egeslean I know that, I'm saying that your "covering less ground in the same amount of time" argument wouldn't apply to a non-timed challenge

[@firedirewolf]

unless we are given a pole, we at least won't score every score perfectly, long jump and high jump isn't a human specialty, though if they are waiting for the runner to complete as the big guy was one of the best high jumpers, they have a mass disadvantage lol. speed competition would have probably have gotten us beaten, same for total distance thrown on a relative weight throwing ball if they have an avian species in there. swimming would probably have a 50/50 on distance of swimmers but almost certainly zero chance of speed metal. often times it will come down to who is the most basic and designed around something, humans are endurance and precision, anything outside of that, we probably won't do well in.

[@dragunkod]

you would be right if you didn't forget about how all the other aliens are low gravity species. as is shown by the octopus alien is said to be able to hold the sphere up better than all the others, and it only weighing 200gram. for my imperial friends that is about .4lbs. so just accounting for it's comparison to shotput that is about 7257grams/16lbs and still throw over 40+ meters. I think the humans have all the competitions in the bag.

[@ledocteur7701]

@@dragunkod apart from maybe swimming, where decent swimmers but if there is a an amphibian specie in the contest where screwed.

[@firedirewolf]

@@dragunkod they were the most accurate, the closest other couldn't grip it because it was so tiny for them that they were uncomfortable... In other words, the tests had no sense of standardization for relativity of mass or size, we just happened to be the right size for the job. Still want to see their reaction to hammer and javelin throws, pole vaulting and team sports like sledding, tennis and boating lol

[@markuhler2664]

I love humanity and all but I have trouble wrapping my head around a situation where the best long distance runner on a planet knocks out a marathon & the best pitcher is done at 15 feet. Still, I enjoyed the story & especially enjoyed the reading.

[@Thule21]

Reminds me of the story *''The human race''* Where a diplomat decides to join in the galactic marathon on a whim.

[@whirledpeaz5758]

Galactic community: Welcome Humans, we like sporting competitions. What games to you play? Humans: Uploads little league baseball game and high school track event videos. "Here's a little something from our younglings" Galactic community: 😮😵‍💫😵😭

[@ICountFrom0]

I was expecting humans to take second in everything. I find those to be the slightly more compelling stories, specially if the aliens dismiss humans for not setting any records, and not quite understanding why second best in everything is still good.

[@AugustoEL]

Or thinking less of humans until they ser they are the second best at most if not everything, no master but sure as hell no mayor weakness when compared with all the other races.

[@ICountFrom0]

Not that there's anything wrong with this story, the stunned disbelief of humans doing THAT is wonderful too.

[@zetaking2909]

truth those 2 events would be outliners really pushing human strengths, there would probly be events they get wrecked in, aka swimming would be interesting, as well as power lifting, not that i think humans would do bad, just specialist races would own in those 2, i mean imagin trying to swim vrs a trout

[@bearstarpresents2264]

These are traditionally our best sports in hfy stories. I’m sure we’ll be placing lower in other sports.

[@zetaking2909]

@@bearstarpresents2264 odd thought, but a squid with the muscle and their flexibility should have a monster of a throw as they could use their limbs similar to a sling, get that poor octoling a human trainer and 3 years, and watch them balls fly

[@johncochran8497]

As a FYI, the distance between the pitcher and home plate in baseball is 60.5 feet, or 18.44 meters. So yea, 10 meters is a tad short for someone who's played professional baseball. Additionally, the home plate is only 17 inches wide. Call it 0.43 meters wide.

[@michellej7831]

The tortoise snd the hare. Aesop was truly a fururist. 😂😂😂😅😊😂😂🎉😂😂😂

[@chrisdufresne9359]

Ah yes, let's get ourselves banned in our first Space Olympics

[@geoshark12]

When the dog alien realizes he could have gone farther if he had gone for a consistant pace

[@jnorth3341]

To be fair, we are REALLY good at throwing rocks.

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the video.

[@AgroSquerril]

a pleasure

[@macpurdy]

For the algorithm and the narrator.

[@elfeater1760]

For the Algorithm!

[@hollyferay8131]

My favorite of today's listening

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Reminds me of "the galactic wargames" But would personally like it if such stories also had disciplines where humans didn't overkill.

[@eliandervalderen5849]

This is a very good story I'm wondering if they're going to have a part 2. I meant it's not the one I thought it was I remember when I first ran into the Second Story named Chrysalis and was surprised by it

[@peterbonucci9661]

There must be some handy capping. We wouldn't stand a chance against some avians for distance.

[@barghestblue731]

Well, it is a distance run

[@sideswipe147]

~4.212 miles per hour for 6 hrs and 15 min. Basically the walking pace of the average person. For those who don't "metric" and don't "maths".

[@AlexandreMS71]

Well, I think it needs a second part, even more chapters. Throwing things is a human specialty.

[@ThisIsArty]

Fun fact: the current record for how far a human has run without stopping is 560 Km (350 miles)

[@michaelyoung7261]

Space Olympics. Excellent. But for once, it’s be fun to see a story where some of the aliens actually are good at what the event asks for beyond just humans are space orcs

[@dyrewolfrm]

I need this as a scifi show like Love, Death + Robots

[@chenlee9835]

This story reminds me of the story Human Race

[@irvbutler1825]

Cooool

[@TrueFork]

the little aliens are so cute when they're trying their best

[@bigearl3867]

I bet those two were really drunk.

[@klappstock943]

For the Algorithm the story and the voice

[@RealArcalian]

Greetings, Mentlegent! for the Rhyhtm that is algo Somebody else might win the short sprint, or perhaps weightlifting. But throwing and endurance? Yeah, no contest.

[@Heidao623]

We're gonna get *A LOT* of revenue and get swamped when the Olympics starts

[@spookywoods]

Oh please tell me there is going to be more of these

[@xavierzaxavier5873]

Lol i thought human will claim all second place in the competition but human have just do it and go even beyond 😂😂😂😂

[@steveradroach9101]

Well, they will have to stop the Woman doing the endurance race at some point, no?

[@allenmorgan1007]

For the Algorithm, For the Author(s), For the Disembodied Voice!

[@shanerooney7288]

These types of stories would be better with more realistic feats, or lack thereof, for the aliens. Migratory animals can travel for DAYS at a time. To think the best the _universe_ has to offer is only 40 km is joke. Same with throwing distance. Only 3-5m? Seals can throw further by bouncing things off their nose. Elephants can throw further with their trunk. I reckon Emu or Ostriches could throw a tennis ball 5 meters. And if we allowed KICKING. . .

[@johnlloydcodera39]

Well the participants needed to be sentient, so its not far off.

[@shanerooney7288]

@@johnlloydcodera39 No sentient migratory animal? No sentient with good hand eye coordination? That's exactly the sort of thing my OP is saying HFY stories would be better NOT having.

[@PyroMancer2k]

Which animals do that?? The majority of Migratory animals do NOT travel non-stop. Most only travel 5-30 miles per day before resting, depending on the species. Sure they can travel very far over the course of their migration but you gotta remember humans evolved to HUNT migratory animals. Human tribes often followed those migrating animals which were their prey. At the start of the video I knew where it was going because humans are ENDURANCE hunters. We evolved to outlast our prey and simply chase them down until they got exhausted. So yeah even if a sentient species did evolve from migratory animals that doesn't mean much considered humans evolved to hunt them. I'm not really aware of any animal on the planet that even comes close to human endurance. Humans aren't the fastest, or strongest, or have best vision, or hearing, or so many other things. But humans do have an amazing system for regulating body temperature which prevents them from overheating and thus allows for extreme endurance. We are the freaking energizer bunnies of the animal kingdom.

[@shanerooney7288]

@@PyroMancer2k The Golden Plover flys for ~88 hours non stop for yearly migration. A Peffinus Puffinu once did a 12 day, 12 hour, 31 minute nonstop flight back to its nest (after being kidnapped and transported across the world by researchers). A red Kangaroo was once observed travelling 200 miles (322km) in 10 hours. Sled dogs take "short and frequent" breaks during competition. But are capable of running 64+km without stopping. I'm sure there's more, but I gtg

[@PyroMancer2k]

@@shanerooney7288 It's a ground based race, including flying migratory animals kinda defeats the purpose. Also did they have a tracking beacon on that one bird to know that it never stopped once to rest along the way back? While that is some impressive speed for the Kangaroo it's not even half a day. Humans got MULTIPLE DAYS of travel without rest. As I said before we aren't the fastest it's more about endurance. Same with dogs, 64km is nice and all but it's slow and steady that wins the race. The competition in the story was about how far you could make it before getting exhausted. The alien in the race basically ran himself to exhaustion to cover the most distance in the shortest time. He was probably somewhat rested by the time the human caught up but that's not the point of the race. He made a classic noob runner mistake, it's a marathon not a sprint. And this is how humans evolved to hunt. The other animal runs faster and gets away but humans catch up eventually. So the animal runs some more. Then humans catch up again. The animal can't rest fast enough to regain it's full running strength and eventually falls to the pursuing human. When humans developed technology like the bow and arrow, as well as riding horses, and settling down into a more stationary life style of farming it has shaped our view of what humans are like compared to other animals. When people think of primitive hunting they think setting traps and hunting with a bow. The biology for endurance running is still there even if we don't use it much as it evolved before our brains came up with advanced tools.

[@gettingby365]

I actually snorted when you read forty kilometers, and I'm old and fat. 😅

[@genericuser984]

neat

[@merlinathrawes746]

You would think somebody would have done some research on human sports activities. I bet we've got a few these guys haven't even thought of, like a triathlon for instance.

[@heyjoe1416]

👍

[@asandrewsilvaw]

For the algorithm

[@merlinwizard1000]

159th, 27 March 2023

[@clouduslakestream8781]

Will this get a continuation? 😅

[@Alurkerdood]

Sadly the events Space Discs, Space Swords, and Space Luge were canceled.

[@quarkedbutt3957]

Is there a part 2 to this one?

[@CaptainShield]

For the potato salad!

[@jakeand9020]

They should have started the story with a few humans are not so good at. A couple low to middling settings would have given the distance and throwing contests more "wow" factor.

[@robertbemis9800]

Other maybe But as being evolved from a persistence predator I doubt anything but another persistence predator could beat us at distance running and rock throwing

[@AugustoEL]

We humans have 2 main traits run and run and run and you get it. And the second throwing rocks and in more efective and precise ways as time goes on.

[@alganhar1]

Wolves. Though to be fair it depends on the climate. The kind of persistence hunting early humans are evolved for does not work on physical exhaustion, but heat exhaustion. We literally ran prey until it collapsed of heat stroke. That kind of strategy works in hot climates, but not in cold. Which is why it was abandoned for other hunting strategies after humans started radiating out of Africa. Against animals used to moving long distance in colder climates, like wolves, moose, caribou and the like it starts to fall apart. Not to say humans do not still have exceptionally high endurance assuming they are properly fit (which very few of us actually are lets face it), but they are not unique on Earth. EDIT: Edits for a couple of spelling errors and some reformatting! Teach me to read before I post I guess!!!

[@randolphphillips3104]

I was begining to think that everyone missed the "persistence hunter" reasoning in the choice of the 2 events.

[@clev2002ify]

Humans throw rocks.

[@dkbros1592]

Bruh 12 hrs bruh my is buut is clinging I can ran 1 hr and complete 5 km or 2 for 10 after that I'm wasted 😌😅

[@spaceengineeringempire4086]

They where pace running. You rub just fast enough to make great distance but not to fast to burn yourself out. At the right speed you can run essentially forever. (Remember we can sweet away excess heat) and if your trained for it a single human can run at a comfortable pace for about 80 hours

[@AKUJIVALDO]

You can walk 5Km in a hour...

[@dkbros1592]

@@AKUJIVALDO I jog upward of an hill 😂😂 for more challenges

[@svenkrules9855]

12 HOURS!? What kind of marathon junkie did the Terran Union sent to participate in this competition?

[@siliciaveerah9327]

To be fair.... If the human understood the bet..... It could 100% be out of spite lol

[@Cl0ckcl0ck]

Well not the best clearly unless Julie was a biological male. It may not be fair but males outcompete females in all field and track events.

[@paulgreen2416]

Next game's the Human's sent a Kenyan. The game's after that they sent David Goggins.

[@MrGoesBoom]

Not sure why Gyron blasted off as fast as he could for an endurance race....don't matter how fast you are if you tire out before everyone else

[@Kualinar]

A running competition where time is not a factor, JUST the distance ? And, the human contestant is a well trained distance runner ? All the other species can just forfeit. Then, a throwing contest with balls weighting about 200g ? Well, the humans are #1 at throwing things, and the contestant seem to be a decent baseball pitcher. Again, the other contestants can just forfeit. As for the pending jumping contest... It all depends on the rules. Maybe that specie built for jumping do have a chance...

[@tarrantwolf]

So humans thought so little of the other races they just sent a woman for the endurance run. Lmao

[@Kirsten2933]

Like 369.

[@isaiahpelly8370]

For The Algorithm

[@arakheno4051]

F.A.S.

[@AKUJIVALDO]

Way too narrow text band.

[@Ibian666]

One problem with this story. Men are much, much faster than women.

[@AKUJIVALDO]

Well, humans had to give some handicap to aliens...or they would crap themselves. Or author is just ignorant, or a feminist, or a woke...

[@Zippyser]

Ehhhh depends. Broad strokes are horrible things. Women traditionally exhibit more stamina than men in marathons like iron man competitions.

[@Zippyser]

@@AKUJIVALDO I don't think picking the sex that has more stamina is exactly a gimp in a stamina contest.

[@Ibian666]

@@Zippyser 'kay. Look up "ironman world champion" and report back with the results.

[@Zippyser]

@@Ibian666 I did, on average women show more stamina there the fastest isn't the one with the most endurance. I however have neither the time nor energy enough to bring up receipts though. Just understand that the whole field of training female athletes is a very new concept. Prior to recently (read 20 years if that) they were trained exactly the same as men who have different physical structures after puberty.

[@shaunwhitehead1485]

I get the writer is a female but wtf there is no way this woman would be competing Our planet would send the fastest human we got sorry ladies you would never get this role

[@siliciaveerah9327]

The record for distance is held by a female....

[@shaunwhitehead1485]

@@siliciaveerah9327 Dean Karnazes holds the record

[@jimmycoyote74]

For the algorithm

[@WiredTurkey316]

For the algorithm