stackyFACTSTrusting your life to a single giant rubber band sounds like a terrible idea, so engineers just bundled a bunch of smaller elastic threads into a fabric sheath. Your dramatic bridge jump is entirely supported by the same fundamental concept holding up a pair of sweatpants.
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