Earlier quoted context omitted.
It may have gotten a nibble but empirically I still have a finger :)
Doesn't mean you were not bitten though.
If it wasn't accidental, that bite represents an attempt to bite.
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)
#122If you ever watch these guys in an aquarium, you notice they're basically constantly chewing on things. I've wondered many times how they keep such tiny teeth in good condition if they never given them a rest, but, here's why. Nature creates such cool creatures
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well that's what ... 300 or so pints?
Wait beer in the UK is 11 quid per pint??? I know UK pints are bigger, but that seems really pricey
I estimated about 6 quid. We left £3300 behind because 3300 1-lb bags of sugar only costs £1800.
;) I like these easy breezy Late Friday threads!
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#124> 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".
It’s more like half a modern passenger car these days.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#125They say they’re taking about tensile strength at the footnote. But teeth would be more likely to be compressively strong. They don’t get pulled on much. The whole thing seems very confused. Anyway let’s build space elevator?
Given what they are talking about (mollusk tongue scraping rock) tensile strength is appropriate. The mollusk does f crush food between teeth - its teeth are on its tongue and scraped across rock.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Garden snails around seattle will absolutely bite you (teeny tiny bite) and draw blood if you let them crawl around on your skin.
Beware of strongyloids. Or apparently to maintain complexity of taxonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongyliasis Or rat (snail/slug) lungworm
A teenager in Australia died due to this after eating a dog slug as a dare.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#127Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#128> 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.
Or a lift full of people.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#129Polymarket is currently taking bets on whether Snailman appears in the DC or Marvel universe first.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#130Polymarket is currently taking bets on whether Snailman appears in the DC or Marvel universe first.
What a strange stupid time we live in, where that could actually be a thing.