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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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If an ant was the size of a human, would it still be able to lift 10x it’s body weight?
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No.

This is commonly referred to as the "square-cube law". Basically, the strength of something relates to its cross-sectional area - how thick it is. If you scale up something by a factor of 2, then the cross-sectional area of the arms/legs/etc increases by a factor of 4, i.e. the square of the scale factor.

However, the *weight* of something increases with its *volume*. This increases as the *cube* of the scale factor. So if you double the scale, your object now weights 8 times as much.

In practice, what this means is that small things can support themselves with very thin spindly legs, while large things need very solid legs directly underneath them. If you want to scale up an ant to human size, you can't keep its legs in proportion, or else it will just collapse. You need to make its legs much bigger, and more directly under its body, or else it won't even support its own weight.