Why a woodpecker would win in a fight with Mike Tyson?
Obviously, both parties in this fight possess a number of advantages, such as Mike weighing in at hundreds of times the weight of the bird, with a much bigger reach, or the bird being able to fly, small things like this. However, the characteristic I will discuss in this writeup is the ability to take a punch. Both fighters have extensive training of receiving heavy blows to the head, but who is the better training partner; Lennox Lewis or a tree? The durability of the human brain and body has been investigated for centuries. Some of the most barbaric tests were conducted in the fifties by the US Air Force, investigating the effects of sudden decelerations and impacts. In some of these tests, human subjects experienced decelerations of up to 25g, with no lasting side effects (obviously there were some unpleasant short term effects however). Also, in numerous racing accidents and plane crashes, there are tales of people surviving hundreds of g’s. Surely this sort of sturdiness can’t be
