Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

Re:Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest mat... by sph on Friday July 10, 2026 @05:24PM (#48865488)

It is not if all you know are football fields and not American football fields.

I still don’t know how they even compare.

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Re:Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest mat... by bch on Friday July 10, 2026 @05:32PM (#48865588)

That's why we use the %fill of an Olympic Sized Pool - doesn't matter from what continent the field comes, they fill the pool equally.

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Re:Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest mat... by necovek on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:54PM (#48868573)

Aren't there significant differences in allowed depth (from minimum of 2m to maximum of 3m)?

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Re:Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest mat... by bch on Saturday July 11, 2026 @12:37AM (#48868799)

Good catch. We've run into a problem somewhere along this journey of comparing the compression strength of a snails tooth to the tensile strength of a spiders web.

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Re:Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest mat... by necovek on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:09AM (#48869242)

So a snail's tooth can only hold a 2m deep worth of Olympic pool (sea)water, but it breaks before you get to a 3m deep pool.

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