POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Meet the beat : Re: Meet the beat Server Time
29 Jul 2024 08:22:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Meet the beat  
From: Orchid Win7 v1
Date: 5 Feb 2012 12:16:14
Message: <4f2eb95e$1@news.povray.org>
On 05/02/2012 15:34, Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> OK, you can kind of see how standing up uses
>> infintesimally more energy than sitting. But you wouldn't expect the
>> difference to be large enough to measure.
>
>    How exactly do you think the heart is able to pump blood all the way
> from your feet to your head when you are standing? By pumping stronger
> and faster.

Again, if the blood reaches all the way to my head when it's 4 feet off 
the ground, you would have thought reaching it when it's 6 feet off the 
ground wouldn't be that much more difficult.


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