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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)

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> 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 crazy thing is that it is also equivalent to 33,000 0.1 pound bags of sugar.

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

#92
post #24

> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar What an odd example. A mid-sized car would have been much clearer.

> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Woah that must weigh almost 3,301 pounds!

No, it’s 3,300 £1 bags of sugar, with undefined weight

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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post #77

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Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement

A football field is by far a better measurement than 3300 one pound bags of sugar.

It is not if all you know are football fields and not American football fields.

I still don’t know how they even compare.

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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post #83
post #3

> 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".

"A modern passenger car" varies widely depending on what locale the reader is in. A passenger car in Jakarta is not at all the same as a passenger car in Los Angeles. Can we just use Kilograms?

“NO!” - America

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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https://old.reddit.com/r/AquaticSnails/search?q=teeth&restri...

Old Reddit now seems to require login to read. Further down the drain we go.

just refresh a couple times, or try in private mode. I've seen it once a week or so ago and then it went away for good so far

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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post #95
post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A football field is by far a better measurement than 3300 one pound bags of sugar.

It is not if all you know are football fields and not American football fields. I still don’t know how they even compare.

That's why we use the %fill of an Olympic Sized Pool - doesn't matter from what continent the field comes, they fill the pool equally.

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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post #24

> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar What an odd example. A mid-sized car would have been much clearer.

But everyone knows, by experience, what 3300 individual roughly one pound bags of sugar weighs and what sort of force is needed to hold it up. Mid sized car is ambiguous, and nobody saw anybody hold that up (seeing hulk doesn't count)

Do they? I don't recall ever seeing a bag of sugar in my life. I'm not a baker though so maybe that explains it.

A car is more easier to picture for me.

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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post #93
post #87

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well that's just £3300 then, yeah?

Half that, 3300 pounds of sugar is roughly 1800 quid (retail) and wholesale is probably half of that.

Well that's what ... 300 or so pints?
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