"Richard.Kirk" wrote:
> Scaled up in time and space, it is a bit like absorbing the stresses
> when you land on your feet. A solid object would smack into the
> ground and generate a schockwave. An intelligent object like us
> has a combination of active devices (bending the legs before we
> hit) and pasive shock absorbers (cartilege). A smart building might
> have the same.
>
The major shock absorber (energy sink) is your muscles. With their huge
"frictional" surface area they can absorb very large amounts of energy (e.g.
neck muscles of rutting stag). No-one has worked out how they do this, nor
how much energy can be absorbed, nor how you might imitate it.
There's a project . . .
Julian Vincent
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