All I wanted was to see a picture of a snail's tooth.
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Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
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Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#12All I wanted was to see a picture of a snail's tooth.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#13> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold?? Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".
How many hogs to the bushel?
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#14I wanted to see some pictures, this paper has good ones:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10332
If you put your finger in front of a garden slug it may try to eat it, it's a very odd sand-paper sensation but I never knew why.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement
It’s a real condition. For me it’s jet liners of various makes. I had to rewrite the quote as “0.005 Boeing 777’s” to be able to comprehend just how strong those snails teeth are.
Sorry, but that's what 14 (standard) pickup trucks of yak hair was invented for.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#16I wanted to see some pictures, this paper has good ones: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10332 If you put your finger in front of a garden slug it may try to eat it, it's a very odd sand-paper sensation but I never knew why.
Analogous to the keratinous denticles in a cat tongue, just much smaller in scale.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#17I wanted to see some pictures, this paper has good ones: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10332 If you put your finger in front of a garden slug it may try to eat it, it's a very odd sand-paper sensation but I never knew why.
"try"? If it's harder than your skin it means it did, not tried.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#18Which is the less intelligent? Strong works when dumb.
I know people like to talk about “how smart” the butterfly or whatever is for “adapting itself” to whatever environment, and it is cute, but there is a practical engineering choice between delicate design and brute force.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#19[2015], with a nice correction from 2017 about the differences between compressive and tensile strength.
And hardness. Diamond is hard but exactly because of that you can shatter a diamond with any hammer.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#20> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold?? Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".
> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar
Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?