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That's just a variant of the square-cube law. An owl the size of a passenger jet wouldn't.
by hoseja 7y ago
That's just a variant of the square-cube law. An owl the size of a passenger jet wouldn't.
- nicoburns 7y agoLet's all just be thankful that there are no owls the size of passenger jets.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoThat's, again, the same law. It would break under its own weight.
- ntsplnkv2 7y agoCan you explain this further?
- SECProto 7y agoIf you doubled the length of an owl (or any other object) by scaling it up, then it would quadruple (2²) the surface area, and octuple (2³) the volume. The parent comment seemed to be suggesting the noise would scale with the surface area, while mass scales with the volume. The latter is definitely true, but I don't know about the former