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Your reasoning is faulty. You assume that the capillaries are a single tube of length 60,000 miles. In fact they are many tubes running in parallel, so the flow of blood is divided between parallel capillaries, reducing resistance.
Further, empirically if most of the flow of blood was caused by skeletal muscles then (a) the contractions required for this ...
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