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Originally Posted by SeanAhern
True. But with a spider web, any force on it is going to turn into a tensile force pretty much immediately. To shear a spider web strand, you'd have to have some way to keep the strand pointed one direction while applying force in another. Since the strand is, for all intents and purposes, a 1-dimensional object, it's going to be pulled parallel to your force vector immediately and your force will become purely tensile.
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Yes, but we weren't talking about the pictures. Sarasvati48 was questioning my statement;
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I'd guess that if the Hummer was outside it would easily fly through a web. But hovering up against the skylight, with no momentum, it just got more tangled and more tired.
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