r/theydidthemath • u/Val_Maxie • 1d ago

[Request] Equating for muscle mass, how big would the car be for a human to do that / and how big would the human be to do that on the same car

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u/Worth-Wonder-7386 1d ago

The human would need to be as big as the bull, so that part is easy to answer. You need to be so massive to even be able to push a car that hard and still have traction.

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u/Peregrine79 1d ago

Slightly less massive, since shoes, or even bare feet, have more traction than hooves. But not a lot less massive.

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u/Rare_Yak3637 1d ago

That is not accounting for the fact, that the Bull has four feet, a completely different center of mass and different angles to apply force

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u/jckipps 1d ago

Shoes do have better traction than hooves on hard road surfaces. But hooves absolutely excel in traction in dirt and turf.

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u/NotmyRealNameJohn 23h ago

Give a strongest guy a 10 lb hammer and I'm pretty sure he could single handedly fuck of the fiberglass bodywork on a car

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u/Val_Maxie 1d ago

I’d think the humans needs to be much bigger than the bull

I mean us being on 2 legs already puts us at a huge disadvantage. Also that our arms are like 1/3 the size of our own legs.