I released a spider today and after launching it from about six feet up, which was about 72 times its height, I started to wonder about this.
EDIT: Took out a typo. I didn’t think anybody would care or notice but you know, Reddit.
In: Biology
They’re too small.
As mass/volume of an object changes, its material strength does not change in the some proportion. If you double the size of an animal, its strength would not also double, because there’s more of it to move around. This is one application of the square-cube law
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