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RajT88 1 hours ago [-]
> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar
Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold??
Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".
boogieknite 46 minutes ago [-]
whenever i see things like this i think its a tongue-in-cheek joke
loloquwowndueo 1 hours ago [-]
Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement
fnordpiglet 1 hours ago [-]
It’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are.
eth0up 54 minutes ago [-]
Sorry, but that's what 14 (standard) pickup trucks of yak hair was invented for.
bell-cot 22 minutes ago [-]
Understandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones -
But how many times can it bite the area of Rhode island?
RobRivera 58 minutes ago [-]
How many hogs to the bushel?
tonymillion 46 minutes ago [-]
> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar
Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?
nathanfries 1 hours ago [-]
I noticed that too. I feel like this might be a new way of laundering AI written text, just provide the quote verbatim as if the they believe it was actually written by the author.
hedgehog 57 minutes ago [-]
I wanted to see some pictures, this paper has good ones:
Snails had a good run being ignored by everyone but the French and now we're smearing their slime on our faces and trying to turn their teeth into armor.
blipvert 42 minutes ago [-]
Snails? These are MARINE snails, soldier! Oorah!
zarflax 14 minutes ago [-]
Makes you wonder how and why they evolved such strong teeth since crayons are pretty soft (and not even naturally-occurring).
imzadi 32 minutes ago [-]
Oops
black6 1 hours ago [-]
[2015], with a nice correction from 2017 about the differences between compressive and tensile strength.
Sharlin 48 minutes ago [-]
And hardness. Diamond is hard but exactly because of that you can shatter a diamond with any hammer.
codesnik 1 hours ago [-]
now, let's combine both.
boothby 1 hours ago [-]
Do you prefer a web-weaving snail or an extra-bitey spider? I'm leaning spider.
cwmoore 46 minutes ago [-]
Poor goats
cwmoore 50 minutes ago [-]
Which is the less intelligent? Strong works when dumb.
I know people like to talk about “how smart” the butterfly or whatever is for “adapting itself” to whatever environment, and it is cute, but there is a practical engineering choice between delicate design and brute force.
Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold??
Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As...
> 10x stronger than the jaw of a dog
> 20x stronger than a human jaw
> as strong as the jaws of a great white shark
?
Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10332
If you put your finger in front of a garden slug it may try to eat it, it's a very odd sand-paper sensation but I never knew why.
What an odd example. A mid-sized car would have been much clearer.
I know people like to talk about “how smart” the butterfly or whatever is for “adapting itself” to whatever environment, and it is cute, but there is a practical engineering choice between delicate design and brute force.