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 @Enganador24 and
what if brain tissue were distributed throughout the body, since you don't need as much muscle or bone precisely due to the square cube law.
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Replying to @Random832 @Enganador24 and
I don't really know much about that side of things. My education is mostly in math, not biology. Anyone else know about that part?
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Replying to @CascadianGrimd1 @Random832 and
You mean if humans evolved in zero-G or something? Sure maybe It sounds silly but it is a major evolutionary liability that our brains are pretty big and heavy so we put a lot of energy into holding our heads up, it's one reason our species is prone to back problems
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CascadianGrimd1 and
But in the broad sense "repealing the square-cube law" isn't a coherent concept Like the square-cube law isn't a *law* exactly, it's just... math, it's the logical result of the simple fact that when you scale something up or down, it doesn't scale up the whole universe with it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CascadianGrimd1 and
The square-cube law explains why you can't have 100-foot-tall humans mainly because we're going with the idea that expanding a human 20x in size doesn't change literally everything else about the physics of a human They're still made of the same flesh and bone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CascadianGrimd1 and
A world "without the square-cube law" would be a world where this wasn't true, where whatever process "makes things bigger" also makes the materials it's made of stronger, allows it to process more energy with no negative effects from doing so, etc.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CascadianGrimd1 and
A mythological giant that looks like it's made of flesh and bone but its bones are stronger than steel and its flesh burns many times hotter than a forge (because it has to process enough energy to move a mass many times the size of a human) without catching fire Like Godzilla
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Replying to @arthur_affect @CascadianGrimd1 and
I guess if you think big picture, the square-cube law is a statement about the way our world works, that it's discrete and not continuous Democritus was right and his opponents were wrong, the world isn't infinitely subdivisible, it's made of pixels (atoms)
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Unlike what the poem says about big fleas having little fleas on their backs to bite em You cannot infinitely subdivide the world and have worlds within worlds within worlds An elephant is an objectively higher number of atoms than a mouse and must have different properties
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