• BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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    6 hours ago

    There's no way a human's bite is only 30% less than a dog's. Our jaws have shitty leverage to chomp down hard.

    • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 hours ago

      We are omnivores and do a lot of chewing. Dogs don't really chew, just rip.

      Some great apes that have more raw plants in their diet even have a bony ridge on their skull that the jaw muscles attach to.

      Our jaws actually have great leverage, our molars are very close to where the jaw muscle attaches.

    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee
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      edit-2
      4 hours ago

      Not all dogs are the same, of course. Some dog breeds can bite harder than wolves. We selectively bred them for chomp strength.

  • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 hours ago

    Given:

    Bite Force of T. rex: 45,000 Newtons

    Jaw Closing Distance: Approximately 0.3 meters

    Energy=Force×Distance=45,000N×0.3m=13,500Joules

    Say we have a typical 10w led lightbulb, how much could it power it for?

    Time= Power/Energy=13,500J / 10W=1,350 seconds, or approximately 22 and a half minutes with a single T-Rex chomp, assuming 100% conversion efficiency

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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      7 hours ago

      Fun fact, the (rough) conversion efficiency of calories to mechanical joules in the human body (separate from the mechanical to electrical you're referring to) is about 25% --- but this is about the same factor as going from calories to joules! So, for a human to put out 13.5 kJ of energy would require about 13.5 food calories (kilocalories).