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Nuggin
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08-15-2011 2:04 AM 		Reply to: Message 268 by Baldrick Cunningplan
06-10-2009 5:28 AM

Well, I've often kind of wondered if the physical power of animals is overestimated. The reason is that you just hear wild stories that sound ridiculous for mammals. I remember reading on a site, one guy thought a chimp (IIRC these weigh 90 - 180 lbs) could lift 600 lbs on one hand with absolutely no effort. I believe a chimp could rip an average guy's arm off, but I'm pretty sure that lifting 15 - 20 times your own weight is something only insects and arachnids are capable of.
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600 is not 15 times a chimp's weight. More like 6x. Chimps are extremely strong, easily capable of ripping someone to shreds. Just google "chimp attack images" to see some real horror shows.
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The bigger issue is not how strong the chimp is, but the mechanical (dis)advantage of a chimp's long arms in trying to life a weight.
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A better, fairer test would be the ability to pull an object, or to rip an object apart.
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Comparing strength requires comparable tests.
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Obviously an elephant is much stronger than a human, but I can easily out do any given elephant in chin ups.
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Nuggin
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08-15-2011 2:07 AM 		Reply to: Message 265 by Sheena
03-23-2009 3:11 PM

As strong as four horses!
Louis Cyr was indeed a strong man -- an uncommingly strong man, but the reality was, he was not nearly as strong as even one horse, let alone two or four.
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What they don't tell you is that all four horses were pulling in opposite directions to one another.
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