the scene in Humans Wanted when a human is helping a wounded alien get through the desert and he's like "don't worry about that I'm just a little sunburned"
baseball to aliens must be the wildest thing in the world because like not only are humans throwing that absurdly fast and precisely humans can put spin on those balls and do all sorts of absolute horseshit
and then the other human, holding a bat, intuits the arc of the thrown ball enough to hit it while it's moving at absurd speeds AND doing whatever other horseshit the pitcher did
I remember my physics teacher in high school getting really excited about Tiger Woods bouncing a golf ball on the end of his club because by the math of physics it requires an insane amount of precision, logically it should be impossible, and he can just do that
other species being briefed on engaging humans in combat like "remember, if the human is holding any object within this size range, it is a ranged weapon"
that thing where sports fans will get mad at a missed shot like "HOW DID YOU MISS THAT SHOT IT WAS EASY" and aliens can never be sure if it's that the human is drunk and aggressive or if they actually could just make that shot
"If you're asking how they can do this without also hurting themselves? That's the other trick. They don't care, the launch is more important than their body!"
........man, thinking about it, is this why stormtrooper aiming is like that? Because these are human clones who expect to, like, shoot a bow or gun with actual projectiles affected by wind and gravity
in an entirely different vein re: sports, while professionals aren't as impressive to an alien, I think you could show something to truly fucking scare them
"this is HORSESHIT they can just DO THAT WITH THEIR WHOLE BODY but one of them ASKED ME WHAT A FUCKING HYPOTENUSE IS" frankly this is the funniest shit
tbh there's probably other species that can do similar mental math but either don't have the anatomy for throwing or have trouble adjusting to doing it in what others consider breathable atmosphere or both because they're swimmers or fliers
Human: /starts taking the grenades out
“Improvise”
Humans:
this is why aliens haven't contacted earth yet they saw that scene and went FUCK OFF
not only are humans throwing that absurdly fast and precisely
humans can put spin on those balls and do all sorts of absolute horseshit
it's such a tiny bullshit and it's not even USING YOUR OWN BODY YOU'RE USING A TOOL TO DO THAT
and aliens can never be sure if it's that the human is drunk and aggressive or if they actually could just make that shot
Human: "yeah the kids LOVE dodgeball day"
we must take countermeasures against this unsettling human tactic. this..."yeet".little league practice would truly fuck with them
it's not just hands
humans can do this horseshit with their ENTIRE BODY
"this is HORSESHIT they can just DO THAT WITH THEIR WHOLE BODY but one of them ASKED ME WHAT A FUCKING HYPOTENUSE IS"frankly this is the funniest shit