8 Most Casually Badass Things The Human Race Has Ever Done

No biggie.

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Not to sound arrogant or anything, but there's nothing quite like a human. 

Once it had become apparent that standing on our hind legs and wearing clothes marked us out as the weirdos of the animal kingdom, rather than wind our necks in and try to fit in, we spent the next few hundred thousand years changing the natural world to fit in with us.

Sure, individually, humans may be a bunch of channel-surfing, Wotsit-eating layabouts, but when we put our heads together, we can make truly incredible (and totally awesome) things happen.

We're not talking about Jack Bauer/James Bond/Batman badassery, with its all its running around, punching baddies and speaking in husky voices. Marvellous as that all is, that's nothing compared to the magnitude of the human race's badassery. 

No, we're talking about the all the times that the human race has just casually changed the face of life on Earth to suit its needs.

Hey, not everything we've done has been sunshine and rainbows, far from it. There have been a fair few times when we've behaved like grade A asshats, but there's no reason why the bad should take away from the good and there's definitely no reason why either of them should take away from the badass.


8. Body Modification

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Whether your skin is covered in tattoos, or you've got someone else's kidney, almost nobody dies the way they were born in the human race.

Modifying, augmenting and enhancing our bodies has become so commonplace, that we think absolutely nothing of slicing into our flesh and then sewing it back up again; removing a part of our intestine is considered a routine operation and we will regularly move the organs from dead bodies into living ones and then carry on going about our day to day business as though nothing has happened.

Not to mention all the painful procedures that we put ourselves through in the pursuit of beauty. We will stab ourselves with ink, fire metal bars through our skin, purposefully scar ourselves for decoration, implant lumps of silicone to alter the shapes of our bodies and god knows what else. Hell, Chinese women used to break their own feet and stuff them into tiny shoes in the name of beauty.

This is just the beginning too. With a whole host of implantable tech and insane cosmetic procedures on the horizon, it wouldn't be surprising if we became virtually unrecognisable over the next few hundred years or so.

 
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