Posted on 12/24/2004 8:51:48 AM PST by Mo1
Oh that's Purdy !!
Sweet Dreams Westie
Thanks for the heads up
If I get a chance .. I'll check it out later
The super sticky feet of geckos allow the animals to cling easily to nearly any surface. In fact, a single toe contains enough foot hairs, known as setae, to support the animal's entire body weight. Researchers are thus hoping to employ the gecko's secrets to manufacture adhesives with similar properties. Now scientists can add another impressive characteristic to the list: setae are self-cleaning.
Previous research had hinted at a built-in cleaning process for gecko feet, but just how the creatures kept their toes tidy remained a mystery because they neither groom their footpads nor secrete fluids. Kellar Autumn and Wendy R. Hansen of Lewis and Clark College measured the amount of force between the setae and different surfaces both when they were dirt-free and in the presence of particulate contamination. They found that it takes only a few steps for setae to shed tiny silica spheres. "Self-cleaning in gecko setae may occur because it is energetically favorable for particles to be deposited on the surface rather than remain adhered to the spatulae," they write in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
So, geckos have Swiffer pad action on their feet?
Good morning all!
Prairie
Deductions are taken ASAP here.
But that's just our strategy...they'll get you either way.
Whoa!
Who was the engineer on that road?
Good morning.
He looks like he's all thumbs too
Maybe I should get a copy to the bleeding heart liberals in my family ??
I thought this was pretty good off the cartoon thread this morning:
I don't know where I'd end up...
He talks out of both sides of his mouth
As for my MIL .. it always amazes me how naive their thinking is
I often stay in Biloxi as a convenient and reasonable stopover when headed west. There are nice hotels with good food at the casinos. Biloxi and Gulfport and Bay St Louis also have top entertainers whose shows are comparable to those in Las Vegas.
As for the camping and the beaches, I haven't a clue other than to say that I noticed no damage to the beaches when I last was there a month ago.
BQ those photos were by a simi pro Pam
I don't about the tax dollars for the extra roadway it seems to me they could have joined at the shortest wide, and turn the rest into a mimi Rest stop!
I would have sat up a couple of those coin binoculars, a refreshment stand for tourist and got a little revenue instead of wasting it on extra cement!
"When men get in the habit of helping themselves to the property of others, they cannot easily be cured of it."
-- The New York Times, in a 1909 editorial opposing the very first income tax
What is the name of the lodge, I need the name of the lodge "just west of Hood River OR". That looks like my kind of place.
p.s. Thanks for the other contact. I replied and just joined.
Thank you Westy, I wish you could see the snow here. I woke up to six inches and still falling this morning and I needed to go shovel my driveway and my neighbor's driveway. Haven't seen a good sunset except for your photos for a few days.
We're under a flood watch here. As soon as the temp got high enough to melt the eighteen inch snow, it started raining and hasn't stopped for three days.
Ugh. The rains are returning here.
Are you anywhere near a river or low land where water could rise or mud come down?
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