Why Humans Can-t Lift as Much as Ants (And How We Could)
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Date: 2022-07-06
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Topeo
I think when they brought up how sweat helps the grip of our skin that they missed the idea of how sweat can actually lessen our grip. Too much sweat while trying to hold on to a ledge of a cliff will end up making your skin slide off and thus you hit the ground. So it has it's pros and cons but I think the most important feature of humans is the ability to kick in a lot of adrenaline. Yes many other species have this ability but the amount of things that our adrenaline can do is a lot more than what the other species have it for. We can use it to pick up a truck that is on top of us if it collapsed on us but we are still somehow alive. We can also use it for quick thinking, I think this one use is really important by itself because of how much it increases the rate of thought. You can literally think within a split of a second of each outcome of what is going to happen, that means that your brain is a super computer that analyzed the best course of actions within less of a second. The one use I've used a lot out of the adrenaline rush is the poker face, when threatened to a life risky situation I have this face that will never move even if I try. It stops whoever is trying to do hurtful things to me because they are confused as to why I have no expression on my face. A simple yet effective switch of a face is crucial to survival against other humans because we rely on body language a lot to read the other person. That's just 3 examples of the many ways adrenaline can help us, but I really think that's the most important feature of the human body.
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I think when they brought up how sweat helps the grip of our skin that they missed the idea of how sweat can actually lessen our grip. Too much sweat while trying to hold on to a ledge of a cliff will end up making your skin slide off and thus you hit the ground. So it has it's pros and cons but I think the most important feature of humans is the ability to kick in a lot of adrenaline. Yes many other species have this ability but the amount of things that our adrenaline can do is a lot more than what the other species have it for. We can use it to pick up a truck that is on top of us if it collapsed on us but we are still somehow alive. We can also use it for quick thinking, I think this one use is really important by itself because of how much it increases the rate of thought. You can literally think within a split of a second of each outcome of what is going to happen, that means that your brain is a super computer that analyzed the best course of actions within less of a second. The one use I've used a lot out of the adrenaline rush is the poker face, when threatened to a life risky situation I have this face that will never move even if I try. It stops whoever is trying to do hurtful things to me because they are confused as to why I have no expression on my face. A simple yet effective switch of a face is crucial to survival against other humans because we rely on body language a lot to read the other person. That's just 3 examples of the many ways adrenaline can help us, but I really think that's the most important feature of the human body.
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Mmm
when you make a square twice as big, it's the size of 4 squares, and when you double the size of a cube, it's the size of 8 cubes, so with that logic, if you shrink a muscle, it becomes way stronger compared to it's size and vice versa. bigger snakes for example are slower than small snakes because the muscles have more weight to move
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when you make a square twice as big, it's the size of 4 squares, and when you double the size of a cube, it's the size of 8 cubes, so with that logic, if you shrink a muscle, it becomes way stronger compared to it's size and vice versa. bigger snakes for example are slower than small snakes because the muscles have more weight to move
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AGUILAR,
We actually can tho. Unlike our brains, we actually use around 10% of our muscle strength. So in theory we can lift things several times our weight just once because it would make your bones shatter and rip the muscle off the bones
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We actually can tho. Unlike our brains, we actually use around 10% of our muscle strength. So in theory we can lift things several times our weight just once because it would make your bones shatter and rip the muscle off the bones
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Elton
We lift more than ants but when we put our weight into the situation then we can't ants probably and idk can lift a phone at most and will need like 4 or 2 which we weight more so humans are stronger and weight more obviously
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We lift more than ants but when we put our weight into the situation then we can't ants probably and idk can lift a phone at most and will need like 4 or 2 which we weight more so humans are stronger and weight more obviously
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domo
Although it would be interesting to see what humans can be capable of if we had a additional exoskeleton, along with our internal skeleton. It would be like having your own biological suit of armor.
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Although it would be interesting to see what humans can be capable of if we had a additional exoskeleton, along with our internal skeleton. It would be like having your own biological suit of armor.
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Horde
It's not 20x because I have put a pebble nearly half the size of my palm on an ant before and it carried the rock so it must be like 1000 times its own bodyweight.
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It's not 20x because I have put a pebble nearly half the size of my palm on an ant before and it carried the rock so it must be like 1000 times its own bodyweight.
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education
One thing is lifting things with our jaws is not effective because of their orientation relative to the neck that would make avoid it being able to compress
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One thing is lifting things with our jaws is not effective because of their orientation relative to the neck that would make avoid it being able to compress
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Thapelo
Its crazy to think that if we had to develop ants ourselves they would cost millions of dollars each, yet everyday an ant gets crushed under a foot
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Its crazy to think that if we had to develop ants ourselves they would cost millions of dollars each, yet everyday an ant gets crushed under a foot
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Vaperius
0: 22 - Let me guess, its because our brain won't let use, because it would injure ourselves, but we actually -can- lift that much weight.
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0: 22 - Let me guess, its because our brain won't let use, because it would injure ourselves, but we actually -can- lift that much weight.
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ArfurFaulkesHake
Why can't humans lift as much as ants?
Because we can lift a lot more than ants!
Get a better title wired.
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Why can't humans lift as much as ants?
Because we can lift a lot more than ants!
Get a better title wired.
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