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		barrkel on Nov 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? Yes. Mass increases with the cube of scale, while structural material cross-section area increases only with the square of scale. So insects can have miniscule legs, while elephants have tree trunks, proportionally.

mturmon on Nov 14, 2013 [–]

Right, sometimes called "square-cube law" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law). Worth knowing about so you can explain to yourself the differences noted above.

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