Starship Asterisk*

owlice wrote:I wonder how many people read the whole thread before commenting? I'm thinking... not many.

Guest wrote:Yeah me and my buddies only go out dancing if we want a happy ending. That will be what this guy is after

Thrudhammer wrote:The dancing doofus is off-topic, irrelevant, trite and unappreciated. There's a whole world of this claptrap out there - it's easy enough to find for those who are interested - and it's a shame to see it intruding into APOD space. Could we please be returned to our regularly scheduled program?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_dance wrote:
<<Joseph Jordania recently suggested, that dance was designed by the forces of natural selection at the early stage of hominid evolution as a potent tool to put groups of human ancestors in a battle trance, a specific altered state of consciousness. In this state hominids were losing their individual identity and were acquiring collective identity. Jonathan Pieslak's research shows, that some contemporary military units use loud group singing and dancing in order to prepare themselves for the dangerous combat missions. According to Jordania, this trance-inducing ability of dance comes from human evolutionary past and includes as well a phenomenon of military drill which is also based on shared rhythmic and monotonous group activity. One of the earliest records of dancing is by Homer, whose "Iliad"; describes chorea (χορεία). The early Greeks made the art of dancing into a system, expressive of all the different passions. For example, the dance of the Furies, so represented, would create complete terror among those who witnessed them.>>