I read most of the threads, and very few had much to say about what compels a person to put themselves in peril. Especially men! Now I know that women have accompished much, but they make up a small percentage of the people I'm commenting about

They've been referred to as jerks, stupid ands nuts just to name a few. Now in no way do I want to be accussed of defending those in the "Jack Ass" movies(can't tell you what I really of them).

I'm talking about those who choose to reach the highest, be the fastest, go the longest or be the strongest. For hundreds of thousands of years these four attributes could mean the difference between life and death. Now, since the birth of the industial age, a hundred or so years ago, most of these abilities are no longer a necessity, they have evolved into games! Since the earliest of times modern man, we have always had competition. Native North Americans have played lacrosse for thousands of years, Scots still toss the cabre and Aborigional Austrailians have been waiting for their boomerang to come back for years. The point being, in the begining we did it because we had to. Now we do it because we want to. I would suggest that we will always want to know "WHO'S THE BEST" at whatever!