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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: BDI On Board
- Message-ID: <0uweoB17w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 11:41:08 BST
- References: <1992Jul23.022237.5914@cs.yale.edu>
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- yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin) writes:
- > It's a general principle: smaller animals are more resistant to being thrown
- > around.
- [...]
- > The reason for the principle is that weight increases with an animal's
- > volume, but bone strength increases with the cross-sectional area of the
- > bone. An animal scaled up 2x in all directions would have 4x bone
- > cross-sectional area, and 8x weight. Thus the bones in large animals have
- > to be a higher proportion of the animal. And even with more bone, large
- > animals are more delicate with regard to getting thrown around.
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- Also, younger animals have softer bones, whereas older animals have bones
- which are brittle and break easily.
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- mathew
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