Robots That Bounce on Water 137
inghamb87 writes "The way water striders walk on water was discovered years ago. The insect uses its long legs to help evenly distribute its tiny body weight. The weight is distributed over a large area so that the fragile skin formed by surface tension supports the bug on the water. However, the ability of water striders to jump onto water without sinking has baffled scientists, until now." If nothing less, you need to see the picture: it's awesome.
Jesus (Score:5, Funny)
Grammar!!! (Score:5, Funny)
There. Fixed that for you.
I for one... (Score:5, Funny)
My Life IS RUINED! (Score:4, Funny)
P.S. Hey taco if this is just some sick joke, and you gave a busted url, I'll kill you! Robots on water... you don't play around with that!
Re:Jesus (Score:5, Funny)
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Great (Score:2, Funny)
Never, ever, EVER do that! (Score:5, Funny)
Never put a line like this in a /. summary. Do you want Congress to pass a law classifying /. as some kind of cyber-terror weapon? You can almost see smoke coming out of the ground around these poor bastards' data center.
Re:I for one... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Rather short on information... (Score:1, Funny)
Does it give you 30 seconds to comply?
Re:Jesus (Score:3, Funny)
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2) Pepper the top of the water in order to *see* the movements of the surface tension
3) Carefully place a small amount of soap in the center of the tray
4) Watch the pepper scatter to the edges of the pan as the tension breaks
6)Profit!!!
fixed that for you
Re:Jesus (Score:3, Funny)
What? You actually walked up to him asked him to 'whip it out' and verified his circumcision?
Jesus Cyborg (batteries not included) (Score:2, Funny)