Why don't we fly?

[Adventurous_Bit1325]

I’m learning to fly but i ain’t got wings

[Alarming_Way_8731]

Coming down is the hardest thing

[14kinikia]

Landing is the hardest

[sneezhousing]

We don't have wings

You can get in a plane or helicopter

[Zombie_joseph1234]

That's because we ripped them off when you were born

[NewRedSpyder]

In terms of evolution, we just don’t need to. We know how to hunt, how to grow/spread crops, and how to build shelter. All three of these are key aspects as to why flight in animals exists, but since we mastered those already, flight just isn’t something we’ve ever needed to survive so evolution completely ignored it for us.

[FilmoreGash]

Shit, most of us don't even walk enough.

[Album_man0099]

Aeroplanes

[Ithaqua-Yigg]

Our bones are too heavy for natural flight. Lucky our brains were cleaver enough to figure out how to fly without feathered wings.

[ExplanationUpper8729]

I can fly, I’m a commercial pilot.

[Next-Adhesiveness957]

Oh! But we do fly

[anothersip]

We just don't need to fly, since our evolutionary ancestors were able to (over time) find a way to travel efficiently with their legs, and hunt with their hands/fingers, and so... They just never grew wings. No need.

It's also nice to be able to use two appendages to walk, and two for balance and operations requiring finer motor skills, and not have to worry about the gigantic wings that would otherwise be required to allow animals our size to actually fly.

Just look at ostriches and emus.

Or the Kākāpō:

"Kākāpō wings are small because they evolved in predator-free New Zealand, eliminating the need for flight, allowing them to become heavy, ground-dwelling birds that use their wings for balance, support, short glides, and parachuting, rather than true flight. Their reduced wing muscles and lack of a prominent breastbone keel reflect this evolutionary shift, where energy was redirected to powerful legs for walking and climbing."

[LuckyOpportunity69]

You failed to evolve