Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Structure meets structure: The pinecone versus the chicken leg.

Not much to say today, my ideas are all inklings, though they could grow into octopuses.
Todays less but still confusing question:
Which has a better structure, a pinecone or the leg of livng chicken? You have to choose one, no "they both have different purposes" jargon.
Hmmmmm, this, this is an interesting question. I can't answer this simply, hmmmmm. Ok, I've got an idea. I'll judge it based on:
design
Stability-note this is different than design-
flexibility
The design is the most difficult question, actually. A chicken foot's primary goal is to hold up the humongous chicken, while the pinecone keeps mr. seed safe (and also does not contain high amount of pectin, I think). If i dropped an a hundred pound weight in a pinecone, though flattened it would maintain the same design. If i dropped the same weight on a living chicken leg, I would expect it to be utterly crushed and demolished, with fractured bones. Thus, pinecone wins.
Stability: Pinecone loses, its not meant to be stable.
Flexibility: These are the two stiffestr thing i can imagine, but you can see me breaking off a bit of a pinecone and having it still make a tree, right. I can 't do anything to a leg of a chicken without fracturing it, so pinecone wins.
A pinecone, by my calculations, seems to have a better structure, and may have a go at human legs, but it would lose due to flexibility... Whats youre opinion?
-Mwahahahaha

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