What's Missing: Loss of Strength

[Twilight_Roxas]

If the person who is shrunk loses strength how is she able to whole part of her clothes that is a size of a circus tent to cover her body or rip pieces of the clothes to make a tiny dress?

[Mathai]

Originally Posted by lbh

On a side note, I had a thought that a person who has been shrunken a while might be a lot stronger than someone who just barely shrank. The idea is that a person having to live at that size, their day to day exersions of having to climb and walk further and the like would make them stronger. In turn someone freshly shrunken, having lost all that mass would be a comparative weakling, at least until they aclamated. Any thoughs?

That makes sense to me. Living in a more dangerous world would burn away the weakness quickly. It would be something similar to Army basic training I imagine. I've never been more fit and thin in my life than I was after those months of intense work. Or do you mean more of a super human strength as compared to other people of that reduced size?

Originally Posted by Twilight_Roxas

If the person who is shrunk loses strength how is she able to whole part of her clothes that is a size of a circus tent to cover her body or rip pieces of the clothes to make a tiny dress?

I think if there were already a hole or weakness in the fabric, the smaller person could exploit that to rip the fabric. I couldn't tear my heavy winter blanket down the middle, but if it has a hole then the strength has already been compromised.

[lbh]

[QUOTE=Mathai;846025]That makes sense to me. Living in a more dangerous world would burn away the weakness quickly. It would be something similar to Army basic training I imagine. I've never been more fit and thin in my life than I was after those months of intense work. Or do you mean more of a super human strength as compared to other people of that reduced size?


I was thinking more that someone freshly shrunken would be far weaker than someone who'd down there a while. A normal woman who has been shrunken for several weeks compared to a physcally fir hard body type, just barely shrunk might be far weaker due to the sudden loss of mass. but would also aclimatize quicker once down there awhile.