It says "Spins a web, any size"
God, I love geeks. Movie Physics’ Spider-Man review:
A web strand would probably need to be at least 0.5 cm in diameter to support Spider-Man’s web-swinging antics. If such a strand were 100 meters long, it would have a volume of 0.00196 m3 compared to Spider-Man’s estimated volume of 0.0726 m3. Spider-Man will lose 2.7% of his volume every time he shoots a 100-meter-long web. Web swinging a mere kilometer of horizontal distance would use up 38% of his body volume (assuming his web makes a 45° angle with the vertical at the beginning and end of each swing and each web is 100 meters long). He would be skeletal by the time he arrived and would have to eat huge volumes of food to compensate.
=v= My geekiness can beat up their geekiness. Obviously they've failed to take into account that the webbing has a chemical reaction to air. So, the mass of nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, etc. is conveniently added as needed.
Posted by Jym on August 11 2005 01:03
Or why the classic double explanation of his genius in also inventing webbing might not be a worse way to go.
Posted by Gary Farber on August 11 2005 18:49