Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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.

  50% more total height requires at least that much more force, probably
more.

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                                                          - Warp

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