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Gecko-grip material aims to be the end of glue
NewScientist.com news service ^
| 09 Oct 2008
| Jessica Griggs
Posted on 10/10/2008 8:23:32 AM PDT by BGHater
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Link has a little video.
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:23:32 AM PDT
by
BGHater
To: BGHater
I can’t seem to leave this article.
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:25:26 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
To: BGHater
Aern’t these the same carbon nanotubes that the Japenese want to use to build the space elevator? Supposed to be much, much stronger than steel.
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:25:41 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: BGHater
Imagine that!!!!
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:26:26 AM PDT
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: Lazamataz
LoL.. pull in the right direction..
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:28:47 AM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: Obadiah; All
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:29:46 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(The GOP, the new DNC.)
To: hosepipe
LoL.. pull in the right direction..If I had a nickle for every time I uttered that phrase....
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:30:14 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
To: BGHater
From the link...
Gecko adhesive is so effective that he believes it could one day find use in car braking systems. He calculates it could stop a car travelling at 80 kilometres per hour in a distance of just 5 metres, using just one third of a square metre of the substance.
This should cure peoples bad tailgating habits.
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:31:07 AM PDT
by
Slicksadick
(Go out on a limb........Its where the fruit is.)
To: BGHater
Anyway, kinda on a similar thread, where scientist hope to use ‘electric’ eel technology in the future.I'm in if it's on politicians.....
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:31:11 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(" I did not have radical relations with that man, William Ayers. " -Barack Hussein Obama)
To: BGHater
Isn’t this just nano-velcro?
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:32:17 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(" I did not have radical relations with that man, William Ayers. " -Barack Hussein Obama)
To: Slicksadick
Great, now sone one invent the system to smooth the g-force braking. Ouch.
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:34:43 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(The GOP, the new DNC.)
To: BGHater
Just wait till PETA hears about this!!!
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:38:31 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
To: BGHater
Great, there goes my 18 year career in the adhesive business.
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:40:17 AM PDT
by
cyclotic
(Is Michelle Obama really Rita X?)
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:42:26 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: Slicksadick
Gecko adhesive is so effective that he believes it could one day find use in car braking systems. He calculates it could stop a car travelling at 80 kilometres per hour in a distance of just 5 metres, using just one third of a square metre of the substance. Nothing like a 5 G deceleration to get your attention. Better make the seat belts a lot stronger.
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:42:52 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(The $700B bail out is giving parachutes to bankers while we must keep our seat belts on and shut up.)
To: Slicksadick
“Gecko adhesive is so effective that he believes it could one day find use in car braking systems. He calculates it could stop a car travelling at 80 kilometres per hour in a distance of just 5 metres, ....”
Unfortunately an unbelted driver will be propelled through the windshield and onto the hood of the car.
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:44:46 AM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the hippies.)
To: Slicksadick
He calculates it could stop a car travelling at 80 kilometres per hour in a distance of just 5 metres, using just one third of a square metre of the substance.That'd be kind of hard on the passengers, wouldn't it?
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:44:50 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: Lazamataz
I know you have been hearing this for a week now, but I'm going to add my 2 cents anyway (it's about all my investments are worth today!)
Welcome back Laz!
To: Lazamataz
Never store the gekko-grip next to the astroglide.
To: BGHater
Even worse, I can see having break-down furniture which I have to remember which direction to pull each section.
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posted on
10/10/2008 8:58:05 AM PDT
by
Peter Horry
(Mount Up Everybody and Ride to the Sound of the Guns .. Pat Buchanan)
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