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Originally Posted by m3ray
Get out. Source please?
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Originally Posted by Red Bread
That would be great if speed were scalable. This is like folks saying scale model airplanes can do 2k mph. Nope, they go just as fast as if they were full sized. Is a Mini faster than a Suburban when going both are going exactly 60 mph?
Cheetah, faster than any insect.
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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/...-land-animals/
http://time.com/82120/and-the-worlds...est-animal-is/
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic....-mites-record/
Since an insect can't travel is segments of miles per hour we'd have to scale the animal up in order to use that measure hence the extrapolation to a human's size...
"At its quickest, the sesame seed-size Paratarsotomus macropalpis zips along at about 322 body lengths per second (a measure of speed that shows how quickly an animal moves relative to its size). For a human, that’d be like running 1,300 miles (2,000 kilometers) an hour."