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To: TChris
If humans had such pads they could leap 100-storey buildings.

No they couldn't.

Nor could a human-size flea. Muscle strength scales as the square of the body size; but body weight scales as the cube of the body size. So increase the length of a flea 100 times, and its weight would increase a million times, while its strength would increase just 10,000 times.

12 posted on 10/14/2005 12:06:33 PM PDT by Logophile
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To: Logophile

In physics class in high school we looked at whether the big dinsaurs could even stand up on their stumpy legs.


13 posted on 10/14/2005 12:09:39 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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