Timeline for How small can humans be before weird stuff starts to happen?
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| Oct 14, 2016 at 2:21 | comment | added | unknown | @Azuaron Thank's for the correction! | |
| Oct 14, 2016 at 2:18 | vote | accept | unknown | ||
| Oct 14, 2016 at 0:18 | comment | added | EvilSnack | The dwarf-tossing starts when the humans get down to about a meter in height. | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 15:07 | comment | added | Azuaron | @unknown Other way around. If an ant was scaled up to the size of a person, it would collapse under its own weight and die. | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 14:51 | comment | added | user3106 | Related: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/42279/… | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 9:05 | answer | added | IndigoFenix | timeline score: 8 | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 7:55 | comment | added | user | See also How would I know if I were a 1 mm tall robot? which discusses some of the effects you start seeing at really small but still macroscopic sizes. | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 6:09 | comment | added | unknown | @sdrawkcabdear I don't remember where I read it (could have been the microscopic humans series) but muscle mass becomes more efficient on smaller scales. If an ant was scaled up to the size of a person, it would be lifting busses with ease. | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 4:15 | comment | added | Aarthew III | @Cort Ammon. Logic! ...right? | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 1:34 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @SRM And lo and behold, they cannot jump 100x their body length =) | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 1:25 | comment | added | SRM | Babies are quite small. :-) | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 1:25 | comment | added | Aarthew III | I'm glad someone finally came up with a question trying to test the limits of the square cube law. Its annoying when the answer is always "you can't, square cube law". | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 1:24 | answer | added | Aarthew III | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 0:52 | comment | added | sdrawkcabdear | How weird is weird our power to weight ratio goes up fast as we get smaller, you can jump many times you body length? | |
| Oct 13, 2016 at 0:36 | comment | added | user28371 | I think one of the major limiters would be a functioning human brain. It generally looks like intelligence relates closely to brain body ratio. Over all brain mass is a factor though so you may end up making humans dumber shrinking them significantly | |
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