I caught the slight involuntary chuckle in this when you read the pants line. It honestly added a bit to the story as you're usually so 'dead pan' perfect at reading, so it really ironically called attention to it and caused me to chuckle as well. He saw, he heard, he came.
I've never heard of the heartbeat thingy yet I believe it. The only real stretch of belief is that aliens would react to heartbeats at all. The heartbeat would be like language; only humans and animals that evolved beside us (dogs for example) should be able to understand it. For everyone else like the aliens in this story, it should be so much meaningless noise, like a language they don't understand. We react to human heartbeats the way we do because evolution programmed us that way. Wait a sec... Mammalians are most affected by human heartbeats? Perhaps the aliens have something similar going on with their heartbeats, and their brains heartbeat interpreter is going haywire because human heartbeats sound so different.
People will find some voices to be sexy even if they don't understand what's being said. I don't know Japanese but still find Dandadan's opening to be catchy and Melfina's Song to be eerily beautiful. Emotions don't follow logic.
They literally explained it out rather well...and yes it is a real adaptation. Most of the aliens are mammals...the human heartbeat effects mammals the most... which is why we have domesticated most mammals on our planet. Our heartbeat is VERY STRONG compared to most animals and can be heard/felt through our appendages pretty easily. This isn't a stretch to say it would effect aliens as well in very random ways. Now humans are effected by it to a startling degree which is why the ancient drum beats still stir our emotions. Listen to old war chants in any language from any continent, and you will feel your emotions surge upward. The drum beats are literally designed to mimic a warrior's heart and hit that right frequency to just drive people forward. The trick with children, and when men or women hold the other to their chest is also VERY real. Even if a woman in scared and her heart is erratic...the tone and frequency of a woman's heartbeat is just right to calm someone she is holding so long as she doesn't give voice to the fear or urgency. IE it won't work if the woman in screaming in terror, or talking about what is making her afraid. A man's heartbeat gives a sense of control and safety, it sits at just the right frequency to create that in someone that hears it. The difference between the genders is that a male's heartbeat when sped up also causes others to feel an impulse to speed up...a collective push and drive while the female one tends to make those around them more alert and even paranoid if exposed to it over a long period. This and other things has been studied for a LONG time in behavioral psychology. That branch of psych that gets ignored because you can't make money pushing pills onto people.
I think the author was going for convergent evolution, but it was more intense for us because of the death world thing. There is a lot more psychology and evolutionary theory that can be broken down here, but I don't like thumb typing an entire paper.
So like the first third of the way through. I'm thinking that we humans are touched by the Faye. Seems like we are highly charmed but with negative outcomes.
So Humanity has became a reverse Eldritch Horror? Huh....I never would have thought of that. That's genuinely new. Question: what would you call that? A reverse Eldritch Horror? Idea: Wright a story about a human trying to live in a school/ship/community where they are forced to where a large suit that mutes the noise of their heart. It would be interesting to see how they fare in a galaxy that desperately wants them
Hmmm...a simpler solution: a (sorta) personal 'white noise' generator that's attuned to cancel out the sound of a human heartbeat. Then detail what happens if said device runs out of power, or gets damaged...
@CharlesAhner first, RUN! Run as fast as you can. Also, if these guys can hear or at least scene our heartbeat, even from across the room, I don't think a simple white noise machine would work. Second, we still don't have a name for the Reverse Eldritch Horror
@CharlesAhner / @BudTheStud The answer to that is quite simple, if not a bit brutal. You can't have a heart beat if you have no * "Heart*" * . All a heart is, in its functionally, is a fluid pump. A highly advanced, silent fluid pump could do the job. Now considering that technology is something we already have (if just barely) a permanent artificial heart would solve the problem. It is more than a bit rough to replace your heart with a metal one just so you can deal with aliens and not have bad things happen. Though, with how thing were going in the story, it's really the only solution that would “patch” the problem.
Nothing special about the human heartbeat is why. Blood pressure is not exceptional, unlike the Giraffe, which runs about twice that of any other mammal. Heart to body size ratio is about 0.6%, which is the same as that of mice and elephants... Dogs actually have the largest heart to body mass ratio at around 0.8%... The only reason the human heartbeat is special to us is because we spend 9 months of our life developing literally inches from our mothers heart. Its a constant presence to a developing foetus. But it would be nothing special to a dog, or a cat, or an elephant, or a giraffe, because their hearts beat at different rates. Nothing special beyond an assurance that the animal in question is most obviously alive that is.
I don't think it's badly written at all, at worst above average maybe, it's just not “satisfying” for how well the story was thoughtfully crafted I guess. Reading the comments too, I think people didn't like it so much it because it was drawn out a tad too far without a real good send off (that 'would have warranted the drawing out'). Or even just the most obvious solution for solving the problem as the ending. I hope that you do keep trying, though, possibly even continue on this story. It would be interesting to see the aftermath of this.
I really liked your story. And the cause is a unique twist that I appreciate. I must admit that when I'm raging a hug from my wife calms me down 🍻. Also keep writing them 🎉
This story sure did DRAAAAAAAAAAAG it out. If it just got to the point it would have been at least 15 minutes shorter. It sounded like a wind up to a joke so I tried to give it a chance. Finaly I just set the playback to 2x.
I caught the slight involuntary chuckle in this when you read the pants line. It honestly added a bit to the story as you're usually so 'dead pan' perfect at reading, so it really ironically called attention to it and caused me to chuckle as well.
He saw, he heard, he came.
Wait until they see my hard vacuum rated semi-auto potato gun.
That could definitely deliver the frys for sure
WHOA!Is this seriously the 1000th HFY one-shot,as the playlist implies?That's an incredible milestone!
Yeah that’s crazy
22:04 I heard that attempt to hide laughing 😂😂
Another one at 23:20.
It’s so funny to hear those when they are usually so calm and even (I like it it’s like more voice acting)
It's so much better hearing his voice struggle to not laugh 😂
It was 23:18
Yep proof of life there
Welp, looks like human pornography is going next level. 😂
[ASMR] human heartbeat 12 hours no loop to get you off
And none of this was our fault, either.
I've never heard of the heartbeat thingy yet I believe it. The only real stretch of belief is that aliens would react to heartbeats at all. The heartbeat would be like language; only humans and animals that evolved beside us (dogs for example) should be able to understand it. For everyone else like the aliens in this story, it should be so much meaningless noise, like a language they don't understand. We react to human heartbeats the way we do because evolution programmed us that way.
Wait a sec... Mammalians are most affected by human heartbeats? Perhaps the aliens have something similar going on with their heartbeats, and their brains heartbeat interpreter is going haywire because human heartbeats sound so different.
or... maybe like a lot of stories in HFY: the aliens all share ancestry.
Have you ever listened to foreign music in its native language and still have a emotional response because that’s practically what’s happening here
People will find some voices to be sexy even if they don't understand what's being said. I don't know Japanese but still find Dandadan's opening to be catchy and Melfina's Song to be eerily beautiful.
Emotions don't follow logic.
They literally explained it out rather well...and yes it is a real adaptation.
Most of the aliens are mammals...the human heartbeat effects mammals the most... which is why we have domesticated most mammals on our planet. Our heartbeat is VERY STRONG compared to most animals and can be heard/felt through our appendages pretty easily. This isn't a stretch to say it would effect aliens as well in very random ways.
Now humans are effected by it to a startling degree which is why the ancient drum beats still stir our emotions. Listen to old war chants in any language from any continent, and you will feel your emotions surge upward. The drum beats are literally designed to mimic a warrior's heart and hit that right frequency to just drive people forward.
The trick with children, and when men or women hold the other to their chest is also VERY real. Even if a woman in scared and her heart is erratic...the tone and frequency of a woman's heartbeat is just right to calm someone she is holding so long as she doesn't give voice to the fear or urgency. IE it won't work if the woman in screaming in terror, or talking about what is making her afraid. A man's heartbeat gives a sense of control and safety, it sits at just the right frequency to create that in someone that hears it. The difference between the genders is that a male's heartbeat when sped up also causes others to feel an impulse to speed up...a collective push and drive while the female one tends to make those around them more alert and even paranoid if exposed to it over a long period.
This and other things has been studied for a LONG time in behavioral psychology. That branch of psych that gets ignored because you can't make money pushing pills onto people.
I think the author was going for convergent evolution, but it was more intense for us because of the death world thing. There is a lot more psychology and evolutionary theory that can be broken down here, but I don't like thumb typing an entire paper.
Wait till they find out about Rule 34 🤣
ha-ha
The song by fish inside a bird cage ?
So like the first third of the way through. I'm thinking that we humans are touched by the Faye. Seems like we are highly charmed but with negative outcomes.
So Humanity has became a reverse Eldritch Horror? Huh....I never would have thought of that. That's genuinely new.
Question: what would you call that? A reverse Eldritch Horror?
Idea: Wright a story about a human trying to live in a school/ship/community where they are forced to where a large suit that mutes the noise of their heart. It would be interesting to see how they fare in a galaxy that desperately wants them
Hmmm...a simpler solution: a (sorta) personal 'white noise' generator that's attuned to cancel out the sound of a human heartbeat.
Then detail what happens if said device runs out of power, or gets damaged...
@CharlesAhner first, RUN! Run as fast as you can. Also, if these guys can hear or at least scene our heartbeat, even from across the room, I don't think a simple white noise machine would work.
Second, we still don't have a name for the Reverse Eldritch Horror
@@BudTheStud Eldritch Delights
@CharlesAhner / @BudTheStud The answer to that is quite simple, if not a bit brutal. You can't have a heart beat if you have no * "Heart*" * .
All a heart is, in its functionally, is a fluid pump. A highly advanced, silent fluid pump could do the job. Now considering that technology is something we already have (if just barely) a permanent artificial heart would solve the problem. It is more than a bit rough to replace your heart with a metal one just so you can deal with aliens and not have bad things happen. Though, with how thing were going in the story, it's really the only solution that would “patch” the problem.
That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works!
Yea the liberty the author taken is insane
It's just dialed to 11 like most hfy stories.
ya i was thinking pheronones or somethign but nope heartbeat frequency
I was thinking pheromones, not heartbeat.
Same but that wouldn't explain the ship going insane from comms
Me too!
Same
ya like heartbeat wtf
They could not listen to our music then hahaha
4:30 and that was when I started choaking on my drink!
it would appear as though NetNarrators community isnt so receptive to my stories. i shall try better, i guess?
Damn 😔 I thought it was good
Nothing special about the human heartbeat is why. Blood pressure is not exceptional, unlike the Giraffe, which runs about twice that of any other mammal. Heart to body size ratio is about 0.6%, which is the same as that of mice and elephants... Dogs actually have the largest heart to body mass ratio at around 0.8%...
The only reason the human heartbeat is special to us is because we spend 9 months of our life developing literally inches from our mothers heart. Its a constant presence to a developing foetus.
But it would be nothing special to a dog, or a cat, or an elephant, or a giraffe, because their hearts beat at different rates. Nothing special beyond an assurance that the animal in question is most obviously alive that is.
I don't think it's badly written at all, at worst above average maybe, it's just not “satisfying” for how well the story was thoughtfully crafted I guess. Reading the comments too, I think people didn't like it so much it because it was drawn out a tad too far without a real good send off (that 'would have warranted the drawing out'). Or even just the most obvious solution for solving the problem as the ending. I hope that you do keep trying, though, possibly even continue on this story. It would be interesting to see the aftermath of this.
the heart beat thing was just tooo strange. it felt like a complete logical leep into insanity, the other parts of the story were fine
I really liked your story. And the cause is a unique twist that I appreciate. I must admit that when I'm raging a hug from my wife calms me down 🍻. Also keep writing them 🎉
This is very weird and funny at the same time
15:20 it's not "magnet-a", it's "ma-gen-ta", or a shade of purplish-red.
I’m sure there are a lot of humans that would enjoy the Taurians breeding frenzy.
I think that's a load of bull
@@howardchambers9679nah
Wait till they come across the heartbeat of a horny human being.
Serious and funny at the same time. Thank you both. UKUK
My how the turn tables.
Thought it was gonna be a scent thing this time
Well that was a goofy story.
Bravo, excellent story and brilliantly presented 👍⭐️👌
This story sure did DRAAAAAAAAAAAG it out. If it just got to the point it would have been at least 15 minutes shorter.
It sounded like a wind up to a joke so I tried to give it a chance. Finaly I just set the playback to 2x.
Welp. Time to sell ASMR heartBeats
Nice story
heartbeat what????????
Noice!!!
What a load of BS. Lol
First.
"FUCK!" -Snoop Dogg
Hmmm not so on board with this one. This would just be the ingrained response of humans to one another if it's anything