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Make gravity your bitch (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How about 10 minutes ? World record is 9.
https://exactlyhowlong.com/how-long-can-a-person-hold-their-arms-up-and-why/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Rookie numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Bharati

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

India is in it's own timeline.
ex. Indian breatharian monk who claimed to have lived without food and water since 1940.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlad_Jani

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But there is a difference between making a claim about not drinking water and literally holding your hand up in a way you can't fake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah he was obviously sleeping for 50 years and holding his hand up. I can believe that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look at his arm. Unless all the videos of that guy are fake (even during a time where making a convincing video fakes was really hard). That arm is not going down even if he wanted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

So it's not pointing up when he lays down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Unintentionally hilarious link