Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
smithsonianmag.com
Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
1–10 of 179 posts
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#2[2015], with a nice correction from 2017 about the differences between compressive and tensile strength.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#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".
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#4[2015], with a nice correction from 2017 about the differences between compressive and tensile strength.
now, let's combine both.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#5> 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".
Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#6Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#7> 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.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#8All I wanted was to see a picture of a snail's tooth.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#9> 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".
Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement
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.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#10Snails had a good run being ignored by everyone but the French and now we're smearing their slime on our faces and trying to turn their teeth into armor.