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I'm watching King Kong right now and I am wondering: How thick would his skin need to be to repel bullets? As one grows in size, does the skin also need to get thicker as well? If so, at about what size (say, in humans) would you need to be in order to have noticeably thicker skin?

by /u/cleantoe in /r/askscience

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