Posted: May 19, 2011 9:51 am
crank wrote:I was thinking about all the wonderful vision capabilities of of many of the much 'lower' species. Thanks, cool info.
One thing, the blog says 23m/s peak speed is potentially equivalent to 22 cal bullet, but FYI, even a plinking round has got to be 100's of feet per second, 23m/s=75 ft/s. I decided to go look, the slowest round a quick looksee found was 700, typical is like 1100 ft/s.
That acceleration is like 10,000 g, wow, that is juicing for a human. [I mean that literally, I think you would be juiced as in the liquid separated from your body. I know it's very brief, but god, that's a lot of g. Very brief 100g shocks are sometimes survivable].
These stomatopods have another name, popular amongst those who've kept them as pets and haven't been careful - thumbsplitters
The quote about the 22 Cal is straight out of one of the papers I cited, IIRC.