[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[aperick at centurytel.net]

Spike wrote:

>The reason they can hold their breath half an hour is
related to the square-cube law.  Compare your breathing
rate to that of a mouse, then scale linearly up to the
size of a whale.
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Bottle-nosed dolphins, and seals, require other explanations. More heme in
the red blood cells, the ability to control where blood flows, heart rate,
and other factors.

I wonder why obese people frequently breathe twice as fast as skinny ones.
Must be due to the inverse stair law. (grin)