Hi, I'm Lianne. I'm 17, loud and sometimes too hopeful. I struggle with conformity and I have high expectations of, well, everything. Including myself. Sarcasm is my mother tongue and intelligence is a turn on. I want to be happy, be carefree and most of all, I want to go to space. I've got thee best girlfriend and friends and family that make my life. Content? Very.
November 08 2011 · 04·15 pm
utnereader: cwnl: Spiderman May Not Be The Only Wall-Climbing Human: Insect-o-Stick Scientists have just invented an insect-inspired tape that can be repeatedly peeled off thousands of times without losing its adhesive qualities. Scientists from the Zoological Institute at the University of Kiel in Germany studied the way insects can run up walls using tiny hairs on their feet and legs and made a sticky tape based on the same principle. They have made a silicone tape patterned with similar tiny hairs that is so strong one of the researchers even used it to hang from a ceiling. The key to insects’ unique climbing abilities is the fact that their thousands of hairs have flattened tips that can splay out to maximize contact on surfaces. Awesome.

utnereader:

cwnl:

Spiderman May Not Be The Only Wall-Climbing Human: Insect-o-Stick

Scientists have just invented an insect-inspired tape that can be repeatedly peeled off thousands of times without losing its adhesive qualities.

Scientists from the Zoological Institute at the University of Kiel in Germany studied the way insects can run up walls using tiny hairs on their feet and legs and made a sticky tape based on the same principle. They have made a silicone tape patterned with similar tiny hairs that is so strong one of the researchers even used it to hang from a ceiling.

The key to insects’ unique climbing abilities is the fact that their thousands of hairs have flattened tips that can splay out to maximize contact on surfaces.

Awesome.

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