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[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Spiders (and other small animals) are in fact fine with falls many times the height of their own body, because of the difference in how quickly volume (and therefore mass) and surface area (and therefore air resistance) are scaling. On the other hand, the larger they are, the harder they fall

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Small animals bounce, medium animals break, big animals splash

(FYI, do not look up examples)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A spider can literally float if it farts out some silk.

A horse becomes soup.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But soup can float in a way, so that's the same

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Soup ... does not float.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the spider. When I briefly lived in AZ we had a problem with tarantulas ending up on top of our cars if we left the light on outside during the night. I knocked off off the car roof and it literally splattered. I felt bad, I assumed they would be fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] CileTheSane 2 points 10 months ago

Oh no, not again

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