Breakthrough in adhesives thanks to Geckos
Nature is pretty amazing and always provides for plenty of ammo in new research. I remember reading a bit about this a few years ago and now it seems like it's going full steam ahead.
To give you an idea: "a dime-size patch of [this new material] could support 2 to 22 pounds, depending on how densely the hairs were packed."
OK, now if we can just figure out how to reproduce the spider threads everyone can be Spiderman!
To give you an idea: "a dime-size patch of [this new material] could support 2 to 22 pounds, depending on how densely the hairs were packed."
OK, now if we can just figure out how to reproduce the spider threads everyone can be Spiderman!
posted by z @ 9:21 PM
2 Comments:
At 12:03 AM,
Ozzy said…
ah, if only i could shoot webbing! i'd be in so much trouble.
At 1:48 AM,
z said…
yeah, that's for sure. you'd still be in the military, but in a completely different dept. probably a part of a top secret r&d project and i don't think you'd be one of the researchers. ;)
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