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If you drop an ant or a pea sized model car off a building it won't even suffer any damage hitting the ground, if you throw an elephant or a full sized train of
by maeon3 15y ago
If you drop an ant or a pea sized model car off a building it won't even suffer any damage hitting the ground, if you throw an elephant or a full sized train off a building, it will be pancaked or explode into pieces.
The strength of a bone increases with its circumference, but its mass increases with its volume. The volume increases incur expenses in inertia far more quickly than circumference incurs gains in strength.
- smackay 15y agoThe following description (from a BBC documentary I think but I can't find the source) sums it nicely: If you dropped a mouse down a mineshaft it would bounce then scuttle away into the darkness, a man would be killed and a horse would splash.