Why Elephants Don’t Explode: How Nature Solves Bigness
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Also, for those interested to know more, I recommend looking up Geoffrey B. West's stuff on complexity. It mentions the same things as this article and puts them in a wider context:
Anti-gravity support system too.
It... sort of worked. It cooled the laptop. Performance was discernibly better.
Until one day water (melted snow) got in and laptop stopped working. Totally serious, this happened.
Whales consume prodigious amounts of energy, and that is largely trapped within its body mass. I suspect that thermal management is actually a fair part of their design challenge. Even humans in fairly cool water can have difficulty keeping sufficiently cool, and experienced long-distance open-water swimmers have died of heat exhaustion in warm water (a case occurred in the Middle-East a few years back).
PS: love Geoffrey West (and the rest of the Santa Fe Institute crowd).
The largest dinosaur, which I know is a subject of discussion, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus 30 metres, 80-100 tonnes and blue whale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus 30 metres, 180 tonnes
If a 100 tonnes creature can live on land, my gut tells me a 180 tonnes creature could too. where's the point of no return? There's all sorts of cooling mechanisms that could be dreamt up, just as we see strange heating mechanisms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus#Plates).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology_of_dinosaurs#Metabo...
If you burrow down — all the way down — to a typical cell in an elephant, and then compare it to a typical cell in a mouse — amazingly, the two cells behave differently.
Elephant cells aren’t lazy. They’re always working, but compared to mouse cells, elephant cells typically do their job a little more slowly, burn less fuel to get the job done and, being more efficient, they run cooler.*
So that’s why elephants don’t spontaneously combust (and neither do we, much to Calvin’s relief.) An elephant is built from cooler stuff than a mouse. Even though an elephant has many, many more little heaters packed inside its body, each heater runs at a much lower setting.
For bench press, short arms are an advantage, as well as where specifically the muscle anchors in the limb. Similarly for squats.
For deadlifts, the situation's slightly different: long arms help in that the bar needs to be moved a shorter distance, though femur length still benefits by being short. There's also femur-shin ratio, and how that plays with angles.
But yes, volume vs. cross section matters a lot.
Pteropus Giganteus (Indian Flying Fox) appears to have an extraordinatorily slow metabolic rate per kg, scoring 0.044, yet Rousettus Aegyptiacus (Egyptian Fruit Bat) scores 5.508.
Scrolling, highlight/selection colour, fixed-position elements (I've ended up nuking your site's header entirely), autoplay audio/video, mouse action, click actions (either opening left-click in new tab, or center click in same tab), etc.
All violate the principle of least surprise/astonishment. Quite annoying.
You can have your horrible purple/blue... I'll take people hijacking those abominations any day of the week.
Otherwise, that's a good list. :)
White text on a blue field works well for me.
EDIT: I disabled the 'smooth scrolling' option in my wordpress theme settings to try to fix this. Please let me know if that worked or if you're still seeing the issue. Thanks.