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What is the Physics Behind a Jumping Spider's Impressive Leap?
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[QUOTE="256bits, post: 5802320, member: 328943"] I don't know how they mechanism in the joints actually works for their legs to extend, but high pressure certainly doesn't mean like 100 psi. If you take one of those long tubular balloons and blow in it, you can see the rigidity with comes about from the slight pressure difference from atmospheric. Something similar to that I am assuming from watching the video. I don't have a spider here to dissect to see if there is such a structure in the legs that would do what they say could be the reason for the capability of the jump. [/QUOTE]
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