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Godwits aren't carrying a bunch of fat mammals around. Try normalizing by mass.
by queuebert 5y ago
Godwits aren't carrying a bunch of fat mammals around.
Try normalizing by mass.
- whatever1 5y agoA kilo of tesla cannnot travel a single mile. Half kilo of this bird can travel 7000 miles non stop. It makes no sense to normalize by weight because it does not scale by weight.
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- marginalia_nu 5y agoMass isn't great either, due to scaling laws. Physics simply behaves differently at different scales. An ant can lift a hundred times its body weight, but if you scale it up to human size it collapses under its own weight and immediately dies. You can drop an injection moulded plastic toy car a hundred times its height into the ground and it won't even dent. If you make a car frame out of the same materials and with the same techniques it will likely fall apart before it's off the conveyor belt. If you make a scale model of a planetary, you'll struggle getting it to start spinning around its center of mass through gravitational forces.
- queuebert 5y agoThis is true, but irrelevant here. The bird is moving much less mass, so it takes less energy per mile traveled. I was trying to point out that if you normalize the energy consumption of a Tesla by the mass it is moving, you get a much more favorable (and sensible) comparison.
- gmax 5y agoa good explainer video for scaling of mass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7KSfjv4Oq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7KSfjv4Oq0