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You must be from the US.
I am from the US and buy bags of sugar. What else does sugar come in? If not bags? I don't think I've ever bought sugar in something other than a bag.
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Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
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#142> 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 obviou…
> Is that by weight? By volume?
It's holding up 3300 pounds. Pounds is a unit of weight.
> Even so, spaghetti strand is not known for strength or tension resistance even when considering the weight/size/volume.
That's...kinda the point? We have something we don't give two thoughts about (slug tooth) comparable in scale to something not known for strength or tension resistance (spaghetti) holding up to something ginormous as if it's magic. Clearly, we should study slug teeth more!
Imagine if a strand of spaghetti can hold 3300 pounds. It's not possible with spaghetti but with slug teeth, it is! Now imagine the possibilities!
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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.
So a snail's tooth can only hold a 2m deep worth of Olympic pool (sea)water, but it breaks before you get to a 3m deep pool.
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#144> 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?
That depends. Is the spaghetti made of pure Italian semolina or some bastardized all-purpose flour-based dough? Also, the cut thickness matters as well as how much you salted the water to boil it AND for how long you boiled it. How far is it in the raw-al dente scale?
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#145> 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.
Must be a british thing?
Non, du verstehst es falsch, mon amigo. According to EU standards (of which the Brits are no longer a part of) sugar bags (empty) should weigh exactly a pound each to withstand all and any shipping conditions.
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Is it De Cecco though or some inferior brand like Barilla?
Barilla is fine and I will fight you
Lol. Four-ish years ago I stopped cheaping out on house-brand pasta and bought Barilla. It was immediately a very obvious step-up in quality I can no longer keep cheaping out on.
Then they made some very slopjob AI ads. Superick but I keep buying them. :|
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
You should ask the person I replied to - they already posted soccer field sizes.