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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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Post by latexr »

EdwardDiego wrote: post #126
eth0up wrote: post #86

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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.

I heard about that when it happened, but hadn’t realised it took nine years with a coma, paralysis, and seizures. It must’ve been horrifying for everyone involved, including the mates who dared him.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/teen-paralysed-even...

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

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Post by latexr »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #51
aitchnyu wrote: post #12

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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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217

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

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Post by sashank_1509 »

latexr wrote: post #131
EdwardDiego wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A teenager in Australia died due to this after eating a dog slug as a dare.

I heard about that when it happened, but hadn’t realised it took nine years with a coma, paralysis, and seizures. It must’ve been horrifying for everyone involved, including the mates who dared him. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/teen-paralysed-even...

Touchy subject and Im not commenting on this specific case that I have no idea about, but for this class of cases (ruptured spine, paralysis, coma) MAID seems better than prolonging life, especially if there’s no hope for full healthy recovery.

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

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Post by ValentineC »

saberience wrote: post #99
zapkyeskrill wrote: post #85

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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.

> 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.

Do you not go to supermarkets or grocery stores?

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

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Post by necovek »

ziofill wrote: 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.

While I am totally with you on the bags of sugar, I am also unsure of the significance of a single thread of spaghetti!

Is that by weight? By volume? Are we comparing uncooked (brittle) or cooked (flexible)?

Even so, spaghetti strand is not known for strength or tension resistance even when considering the weight/size/volume.

I can't at all understand what this comparison is meant to visualize for me, so it is obviously failing.

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

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Post by necovek »

sph wrote: post #94
ziofill wrote: 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.

Mid-sized European or American car?

And how old is it? A B-segment vehicle has gone from 1000kg (or less) to 1300kg (or a lot more for EVs) over the last 20 years.

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

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Post by necovek »

bch wrote: post #98
sph wrote: post #95

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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.

Aren't there significant differences in allowed depth (from minimum of 2m to maximum of 3m)?

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

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Post by necovek »

kulahan wrote: post #80
bell-cot wrote: post #27

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Understandable, with how many there are to pick from, and the wiggle room in the longest ones - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/As...

OP is talking about a football field, not a soccer field. It’s a common joke in America that things have to be measured in football terms. In the “for what it’s worth” department, Brits called it soccer too. I have no idea why they swapped to football recently.

What's the size of football fields in use for the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) World Cup happening in USA (among others) right now?

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

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Post by bch »

necovek wrote: post #137
bch wrote: post #98

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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.

Aren't there significant differences in allowed depth (from minimum of 2m to maximum of 3m)?

Good catch. We've run into a problem somewhere along this journey of comparing the compression strength of a snails tooth to the tensile strength of a spiders web.

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

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Post by xeonmc »

sph wrote: post #94
ziofill wrote: 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.

Mid-sized European or American car?

It's not a question of where the car is from! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A one gram strand of noodle could not carry a 1 tonne car.
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