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Very much worth a read: “as if our own metabolic processes would have an effect 18 kilometers away,”
by gerdesj 6y ago
Very much worth a read:
“as if our own metabolic processes would have an effect 18 kilometers away,”
- yetihehe 6y agoYeah, but my metabolic processes sometimes do have an effect many kilometers away. It's like with ants, they can carry things many times their size, but if ant was the size of an elephant and made with the same materials, it couldn't even support itself.
- mc32 6y agoIt’s analogous of trying to simulate oceanic phenomena in a bathtub. Like when they have miniature movie scenes shot in a pool and they simulate waves and water gushing, it just doesn’t scale well. In other words a 2 inch wave doesn’t break the same way a 20 foot wave does.
- bombela 6y ago2 inch: ~5cm 20 foot: ~6m
- taneq 6y ago> Yeah, but my metabolic processes sometimes do have an effect many kilometers away. You mean like ordering pizza to be delivered?
- bookofjoe 6y agoWinning!
- gerdesj 6y ago"Yeah, but my metabolic processes sometimes do have an effect many kilometers away." No they don't and I have never heard of you. Ants are not elephantine.
- LoSboccacc 6y ago> “as if our own metabolic processes would have an effect 18 kilometers away,” tbh I hate these kind of scaling comparison that violate the square/cube law (linear/cube in this case, but still). "an human sized ant could carry 1000+ kg!" yeah, no. it would more likely crush its own leg under the weight of its own carapace.
- dhosek 6y agoYou mean that Them! lied to me?