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minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoBig insects are fun, too. Their method of breathing through the body surface doesn’t scale, due to volume growing cubically and surface area only squarely. So, scaling them up would mean they’re constantly out of breath, well, or suffocated.
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Big insects are fun, too. Their method of breathing through the body surface doesn’t scale, due to volume growing cubically and surface area only squarely. So, scaling them up would mean they’re constantly out of breath, well, or suffocated.
This is solved by Sierpinski insects.
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