Real or CGI?
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- gityocheezon0
I emailed the guy calling him out and this was his response:
> Though the logic of your critique is correct, the extrapolation to your
> conclusion is incorrect. The scaling laws show that there is *some* limit
> where a material is no longer suitable for certain uses (for example,
> silicon is stronger than steel at the micron level, but beyond that scale it
> is brittle), but that limit is scaled by the strength to weight ratio of the
> material in question. All you've said is that one can't build something
> arbitrarily large---and I agree---but you haven't told me why this limit is
> beyond the scale of the r50r. Obviously, the key for the r50r project was to
> keep the weight down and the strength up, and to this end, I was very
> judicious with my choice of materials and configurations. What you can not
> see in detail in the images online are the intricate honeycomb panels and
> baked composite members that were necessary to keep weight down.
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> Have you considered that by your logic elephants cannot exist? That dinosaurs
> are the realm of science fiction? The Petrona Towers are merely Photoshop
> magic? Perhaps a few back of the envelope calculations or a trip to you local
> natural history museum may convince you otherwise.
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> Regards,
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> Colin