While we rush to develop a coronavirus vaccine, you’ve gotta respect the scientists who are still working on the IMPORTANT stuff like this . . .
A new study found that John Cleese’s “SILLY WALK” from his classic Monty Python sketch is EXACTLY 6.7 times sillier than a normal walk.
There’s a group of biologists at Dartmouth who study the origin of how humans started walking upright. And they wanted to know what it is that makes his walk so silly.
So they studied it, and found it mostly has to do with timing, and how much his KNEE bends when he lifts his foot in the air. Quote, “[He’s] flexing and extending his knees at all the wrong times.”
With a normal walk, your knee only bends about 20 degrees. But when his foot is at peak height, his knee-bend is 110 degrees.
They say the variation in the angle of his knee . . . combined with the timing of it . . . resulted in a walk that’s 6.7 times sillier than how a normal person walks.
They also looked at Michael Palin’s walk. He’s the one in the sketch asking the government for money to develop his silly walk and make it sillier.
And they found that John’s character was RIGHT to reject it. According to their calculations, it’s only 3.3 times sillier than a normal walk. (New Scientist)
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