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[–] [email protected] 101 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Horses today yes. They are built incredibly efficient compared to yesterday's horses. Better ligament material, lighter and stronger bones, not to mention the carbon muscle fibers.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This but unironically, horses are constantly being bred to be bigger. The reason people rode chariots in Greece is because horses were too small to ride horseback.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah one of the main causes of the downfall of chariot warfare in the ancient world was that horses were bred that could carry a fully armed rider with armour for a long enough period of time.

Disclaimer: I know very little about anything.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I'm not so sure. There's plenty of accounts of ancient warriors using ridden horses as transportation. It probably has more to do with a chariot being more compatible with horse/soldier training and soldier gear at the time. Riding a horse into battle takes a lot of unique training and gear, and camels were the better option for a lot of the latitude around North Africa/Middle East, where you had ancient empires with the ability to research technology.

The idea that horses had to embiggen, I think, comes from the Persians. They wanted the world's first heavy cavalry and they certainly needed bigger horses for a fully armored rider. But light cavalry has evidence dating back to at least 5,000 B.C. thanks to the proto mongols. (Central Asian tribes before they were united)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Of you feed a house kerosene it will run much faster but it will emit white smoke.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don’t forget about the gear all horses are on nowadays! You need to check the labels for All Natural hp.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Say, I'm not really a horse guy, but my dad says my mustang needs more blinker fluid. Well the guy at the stable sold me some, but now where do I put it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I mean, it's the eyes that blink...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

On the right and left nacelles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Horses today yes. They are built incredibly efficient compared to yesterday’s horses. Better ligament material, lighter and stronger bones, not to mention the carbon muscle fibers.

and i thought horses used to be toeing the line between fucking exploding and run fast hee hee hoo hoo