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The article is a bit misleading in that it states that a spiders web could stop the train. The paper is clearer in this respect. Of course it should say the fic
by phreeza 14y ago
The article is a bit misleading in that it states that a spiders web could stop the train. The paper is clearer in this respect. Of course it should say the fictional web in Spiderman could stop the train, if it were made of the material of the actual spiders web. They assume a thread diameter of 5mm, as opposed to probably about .1mm in a real spiders web.
- sageikosa 14y agoMy take on Spider-Man stopping the train was that the first several anchor points failed as anchor points in the web/anchor/train system (they underwent systemic collapse due to loads past their design tolerances). Therefore, Spidey increased the number of anchor points to more even distribute the load.