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Super Strength

If you wake up one morning with 1,000 times the strength you had the night before, how will you handle delicate day-to-day tasks?

Everything must seem so fragile to you, since the scale of your strength has expanded one thousand times.

You'd have to be very careful when you're shaking someone's hand, so you don't end up breaking their bones or crushing everyone you hug.

And using a fork to pick up a piece of broccoli from a Styrofoam plate without driving the fork through the plate is going to be as difficult as brain surgery.

Say the day comes and you get the chance to save a damsel in distress falling from a helicopter.

So, you hold out your arms, hoping to catch her.

Seconds later, you will find yourself holding her lifeless body.

What happened?

Well, pressure is force divided by area.

The smaller the area, the bigger the pressure.

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