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Comment by solid_fuel

5 days ago

You're confusing (pressure on the ground / surface area) with overall weight (the sum of all pressure on the ground). Having more legs is heavier simply because now you have additional struts and motors that you didn't before, those items are linear with the number of legs, and the total weight is weight_of_leg x num_legs.

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