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To: Elias Sinderson <elias@cse.ucsc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Gecko adhesion finally sussed.
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From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com>
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Date: 04 Sep 2002 22:32:07 -0400
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>>>>> "E" == Elias Sinderson <elias@cse.ucsc.edu> writes:
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E> ... The strength to weight ratio of a spider is so high
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E> that Spiderman is able to throw a bus several city blocks with
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E> little effort. His endurance is similarly enhanced as well.
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Could this be as simple as a modified molecular structure where the
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humanoid cells are in fact exo-skeletally structured with more atoms
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per cubic angstrom to achieve the distance-squared tensile strength
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enhancements we find when we introduce smaller metal atoms between the
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lattice packed grid of iron atoms to create steel?
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This 'steel-effect' might give bone structure and tendons dramatically
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(several orders of magnitude) more tensile strength without the need
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to significantly increase the weight (like magnesium-alloy or
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carbon-fiber weight compared to iron, Spidey could even be way under
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weight). Only increasing tensile strength could accommodate the
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mobility and leverage feats since bones are actually formed from
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bubbles of organic material hydrolically assisted, tensile strength
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cross-sectionally would give his frame the strength to withstand the
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muscular enhancement.
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E> As for the spidey senses, well they're really great, but AFAIK
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E> not really well explained in the comic series.
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If the same close-packing gap-filling arachne-molecular structure
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modification occurs in neural tissues, and there'd be no reason to
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think that these would grow differently from bones and tendons, then
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what we are seeing in spidey sense is no more than the heightened
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cerebral functions due to shorter/faster/stronger synapses throughout
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the entire nervous system.
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Since we know dogs and cats measure human emotions by smell, clearly
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hearing the heartbeats, and other subtle clues within their normal
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sensory ranges (but seem mystical to us) ... for Peter Parker,
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everything from air currents on his facial-hairs to extremely subtle
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hormone smells might coallesce into a general gestalt of Spidey-Sense;
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don't forget that he'd acquired this ability in adolescence and thus
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would lack any cultural or even pathological basis to explain the
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heightened awareness to himself in anything but mystical terms. We
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know from issue #1 that his collision-avoidance reflex response time
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was far swifter than his cognitive awareness since he 'found' himself
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already stuck to the tree when the bicycle was already past and hence
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his disorientation ("You ok, Mister?") as if it was a hallucination.
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Hmmm ... it may even be physio-psychologically interesting to examine
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if Peter Parker's personal quandries arose _because_ his physiological
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'Spidey' infrastructure had been advanced whereas his psychological
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perception of his self had not, ie, "Peter" was not "Spiderman" but
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just the "driver of the bus". Only, unlike ourselves, he found his
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self driving a body-vehicle not evolutionarily matched to his
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cognitive time-scales.
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--
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Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@teledyn.com> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
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Business Advantage through Community Software : http://www.teledyn.com
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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)
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