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by praptak 607 days ago
The smell test here is that swans are flying birds and a human is large(-ish) land mammal. Nature just cannot make a flying bird's bones strong enough because they have to be much lighter.

If we play conkers with each other's bones the swan will lose.

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Upvote for the subtle reference to the conkers story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844545).
It's this thread, did you suffer HNception? :)
No, hit in the head by a black swan, thats all.