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As the title says, if a spiderweb was big enough to trap a human on It (like when an insect is stuck on one), is it physically possible for a human to break free?
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spiderwebs are tougher than steelAs the title says, if a spiderweb was big enough to trap a human on It (like when an insect is stuck on one), is it physically possible for a human to break free?
I mean thick giant spider weds that came from a spider bigger than any human (The character was stuck on the web but not wrapped up). How strong would the adhesive properties be? Anything special?Depends on what you mean. If it's just a massive amount of real-life spider web, it'd still be pretty easy to break out of. Insects get stuck mostly from the sticking.
Of course, any number of fictional properties could be applied to the webbing to change this, in which case it'd just be up to that author. As Dragonite points out, if you up-scaled the tensile strength to size, eventually it'd be strong enough that it couldn't be broken by a human, but it still might not trap them unless it was wrapped around them.
the webbing could easily join together to strengthedDepends on what you mean. If it's just a massive amount of real-life spider web, it'd still be pretty easy to break out of. Insects get stuck mostly from the sticking.
Of course, any number of fictional properties could be applied to the webbing to change this, in which case it'd just be up to that author. As Dragonite points out, if you up-scaled the tensile strength to size, eventually it'd be strong enough that it couldn't be broken by a human, but it still might not trap them unless it was wrapped around them.
the strength of an average spiderweb is about 1.1 gigapascals. defintely enough to trap a human if it was human sized.I mean thick giant spider weds that came from a spider bigger than any human (The character was stuck on the web but not wrapped up). How strong would the adhesive properties be? Anything special?
Unfortunately I'd have to stick with "depends on the author." We can generally assume the tensile strength of a web will increase with size the same way a rope would, but while more rope/larger rope intuitively increases in strength, larger amounts of adhesive very quickly stop being more helpful as the only think that really matters is the layer immediately connecting you to the other object. For instance, a giant tub of elmer glue wouldn't be harder to deal with than a decent layer of super glue in terms of adhesive strength.I mean thick giant spider weds that came from a spider bigger than any human (The character was stuck on the web but not wrapped up). How strong would the adhesive properties be? Anything special?