Emailing my state representative and senator to call for a complete repeal of the square–cube law I advise you to do the same. Together we can affect real change
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It states that as you scale something up, the strength goes up by the square of the scaling factor, while the weight goes up by the cube of the scaling factor.
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Replying to @CascadianGrimd1 @Enganador24 and
It's why giant humans don't exist. If you take the human form and double the height, it gets 4 times as strong, but it weighs 8 times as much. Net result, it's basically like doubling in weight without changing size. The body ends up falling apart under its own weight
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Replying to @CascadianGrimd1 @Enganador24 and
what if humans were smaller and could pilot proportionally giant robots?
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Replying to @Random832 @Enganador24 and
That might work. Scaling down has its own issues in that regard, mostly relating to brain size as far as I know. Also, on the robot side of things, bipedalism turns out to be surprisingly difficult. Mecha of any size would have major balance issues
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Replying to @CascadianGrimd1 @Random832 and
A human being the size of a small insect would rapidly die of hypothermia, among other things Even if we ignore the effects of gravity completely, *heat* is one of the biggest issues with the square-cube law
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CascadianGrimd1 and
The amount of heat an organism produces varies with its total mass, which obviously increases with its whole volume (cube) The rate at which the organism radiates heat away into the environment increases with its *surface area* (square), which can't keep up
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So since Ant-Man still has a normal warm-blooded human physiology, when he shrinks he needs his science-fiction super-insulated suit to keep himself from freezing to death Conversely, there's no explanation for how Giant-Man's body doesn't barbecue itself within minutes
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