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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)
#32> 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 about > 10x stronger than the jaw of a dog > 20x stronger than a human jaw > as strong as the jaws of a great white shark ?
But how many times can it bite the area of Rhode island?
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#33> 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".
because as a reader, bags of sugar are more engaging to me than bags of concrete.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#34> 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".
I noticed that too. I feel like this might be a new way of laundering AI written text, just provide the quote verbatim as if the they believe it was actually written by the author.
This article is from 2015.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#35> 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".
anything but the metric system.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#36I 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.
Garden snails around seattle will absolutely bite you (teeny tiny bite) and draw blood if you let them crawl around on your skin.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#37> 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".
The main question is how many American football fields is that
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#38> 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?
Is it De Cecco though or some inferior brand like Barilla?
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#39Next YC batch: "We're Mollusca and we're democratizing access to nature's strongest material"
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
ok but what color is the yak hair?