he would almost be as strong as a small monkey....
Post of the year. As size goes up strength goes down. There's a very basic math formula where as height goes up, the length of a muscle as well as the weight of a muscle go up greatly. You can use four springs to demonstrate this theory. If you take four springs and tie two together side by side, and take another pair end to end.
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you will get a spring that has the same strength as one singular spring.
that of course is with springs in reality the mass adds to this, so you get a decline in strength as size goes up.
This is why mammals that are large are generally under 10 feet in height, have four legs, with the majority of the weight going into vertical coloums like an elephants. The elephants muscles take none of the weight and merely move the pillars that are their legs.
Dinosaurs got around this by having hallow bones, joint insertions that were balances like on a cranes, and they ate vast amounts of food to keep going. They cut their caloric intake in half by being warm blooded, had the benefit of being on a tropical humid super continent and were around when the air was denser.
