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by colechristensen 1011 days ago
As others have mentioned it wouldn't be 8 g. Life would be smaller. There would be speed differences. A lot of optimums and limits depend on how volume scales against area. Like the biggest terrestrial animals are limited a characteristic dimension (height or length) x being proportional to femur area x^2 being proportional to mass x^3. Mass grows proportional to x^3, femur strength (area) grows proportional to x^2, so you have a limit on how big a thing can be when you run out of available femur strength.

Higher gravity means this upper limit will be smaller. All sorts of similar scaling things will change optimum points for structural and energy reasons.