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am i the only one who gets annoyed by every "body-length : speed" and "body-weight : carrying-capacity" comparison? these things don't scale, people! it's not amazing.

is it amazing that a spider can freefall from 10,000 ft (millions of body lengths) and survive? no, it isn't.

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To be fair, every time I watch Darwin Beetles throwing each other out of giant trees, I'm a little amazed.

2.2 meters per second isn't bad for something that tiny. Put a little bomb payload on there and you've got yourself a nice targeted killing machine that'll get the target well before anyone notices. Question is, how much weight (battery, camera, bomb) can it carry before it slows down to be too slow to be useful?

Spiders are great, but we can't make them do things for us like this thing can.

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