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Safety tips for giants: Dietary concerns
A submission for the issue of the MegaMorphics APA that got sent out to members a few months ago.
Remember, kids: Just 'cause it looks tasty doesn't mean you should pick it up off of the ground and take a bite!
Remember, kids: Just 'cause it looks tasty doesn't mean you should pick it up off of the ground and take a bite!
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The digestive acid still wouldn't be strong enough. ACTUALLY the digestive systems of huge animals tend to be slower than smaller animals.
And still, eating small things (at that size) like people wouldn't even matter because proportions. A pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of brick.
The amount of stomach acid it would take to digest a person would be the same in a huge stomach as in a smaller one.
The bigger stomach would just produce more, proportion wise. Like a fire hose taking the pressure of a normal water hose. Of course there'd be no problem.
SO, it's only obvious that they would be made stronger than us.
And still, eating small things (at that size) like people wouldn't even matter because proportions. A pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of brick.
The amount of stomach acid it would take to digest a person would be the same in a huge stomach as in a smaller one.
The bigger stomach would just produce more, proportion wise. Like a fire hose taking the pressure of a normal water hose. Of course there'd be no problem.
SO, it's only obvious that they would be made stronger than us.
It's not to do with the amount of stomach acid, it's the action per contact area. Digestion is an action that scales with surface area, so trying to digest something scaled up ten times in length would take a hundred times longer in time, if you had the same strength of enzymes. Producing more acid to compensate won't help because it's the geometry and size of the thing you've eaten that determines the contact area there is to work with.
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