I killed it!

I think they simply mean that his force is increased 30 or 40 times. Anyway, do you hope this films would demonstrate realism?

 

You're still talking about a comic book character, so it's pretty tough to work out real world physics for such a man. Add that to the fact that he's solar powered, and you have an interesting question of "how".

 

I don't understand. An average man can't lift five to fifteen times his own weight.

Spiderman can. That's why he's my hero.

 

Gross did say "as strong as your average man" did he not?

 

I'm still not getting it.

An average guy probably can't even lift his own body weight, let alone five to fifteen times that.

 

Therefore, Gross said that a spider enlargened to the man's size would hardly lift another enlargened spider.

 

Now that we are conveniently talking about spiders, I'd like to mention this "myth".

It's about people eating eight spiders a year for anyone who is too stupid to check where the link is leading or believes I bought snopes.com to upload obscene pictures.

Anyway, the night between Sunday and Monday, I was lying in my bed (really a mattress that's splitting into two, on the floor) doing some mathwith my eyes closed, before falling asleep.

While I was lying there, I felt a sudden urge to turn over in the bed, so that I would be facing the wall. It was a stupid urge, because I know it is much nicer to lie resting your back against it than it is watching it with your eyes closed.

When I had just turned, I noticed something papery in my mouth, thought it was probably some fabric or school stuff that I accidentally had started eating on, but I turned on my trusted flashlight anyway. Luckyly I've been having a couple of colds recently, which means I have a valid reason to keep tissues in my room. I spitted out the thing in my mouth onto the paper. Guess what it was!

Hint, it has, hopefully, got about eight legs (I haven't couted them as the thing is pretty curled up).

 

Of course.

 

Surely you should dance Tarantella now.

 

What I'm saying is, while a normal spider (size and all) may be able to lift 5 to 15 times its own weight, if you scale the spider up to human size, the spider becomes proportionally weaker, and is then about as strong as a human that can lift 1.2 times their own weight (that's the average).
Now, I'm talking about a human doing a dead-lift, that is, a person simply lifting a certain weight off of the ground and standing erect while letting the weight hang in front of themselves. The current record is a human lifting three times their own weight. It might be more, but oh well.
So, basically what I meant is that even if a spider would technically be able to lift more weight as a human-sized monster, it would not be as strong, proportionally, as one of its normal-sized spider brethren.
Essentially, Spiderman is awesome, but improbable. So is his webbing, but
that's a whole bunch of new numbers that I don't feel like crunching just yet.

As for people swallowing around eight spiders a year, no. Normally when something is in your mouth that shouldn't be there, you instinctively spit it out, be you awake or asleep. It's why you spat out your spider, mathboy.

 

I didn't instinctively spit it out. I wondered what it was, and found a paper to spit it out on, and then, after maybe a minute, I spat it out.

 

thankfully, i sleep with my mouth closed. fish doesn't, now i'm going to be on spider watch, thanks ALOT! :x

 

Bad mathboy if he swallowed any of the legs!

 

Yes, but I'm sure you wanted to spit it out. If it was still alive, I'm guessing you would've spat it out sooner.

 

hahahahahahha. awesome.

Oh, I get it now. I was talking about radioactive spiders, not regular ones.

 

Stop exaggerating. Billie Jo only has 3 legs. (Her fourth one got mangled in the combine.) She's still just as purty as the day she was hatched, though.



I'd hit it.

 

he was talkin' 'bout Billy Joe, not Billie Jo. you keep gettin' 'em confused.

 

Oh, yeah. One of 'em is a fucking pain in the ass. The other causes a pain in the ass after fucking.