How is it that bugs take no fall damage?

Question

How is it that bugs take no fall damage?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Their body can take the proportional impact force of freefall on earth. This is because of the square cube law. As an organism gains surface area by 1, it’s volume increases 3. Smaller organisms terminal velocity with their mass doesn’t create a disproportionate impact.

If an object gets larger and maintains the same density, the volume of that object increases much faster than its surface area. Or, as the outside of something grows, the inside grows way more.