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Miri
post Nov 7 2011, 02:45 PM
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http://www.gizmag.com/bioinspired-adhesive-tape-kiel/20406/

Nifty.
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post Nov 7 2011, 03:14 PM
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som a 20x20cm patch can hold up a human. Seems one can create some kind of climbing kit from that stuff. Or use it to hang up posters and such (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Nov 7 2011, 03:38 PM
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QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Nov 7 2011, 10:14 AM) *
som a 20x20cm patch can hold up a human. Seems one can create some kind of climbing kit from that stuff. Or use it to hang up posters and such (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)


Wonder how long it will take till someone trusts their 56inch plasma tv to this tape? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Nov 7 2011, 03:43 PM
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Then there's the metamaterials that can hide space-time events, the 1-wheeled motorcycle, the rapid-charge batteries...

Yeah, the future is now.
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post Nov 7 2011, 03:43 PM
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QUOTE (Miri @ Nov 7 2011, 10:38 AM) *
Wonder how long it will take till someone trusts their 56inch plasma tv to this tape? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


About 8 minutes.
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post Nov 7 2011, 05:59 PM
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QUOTE (Miri @ Nov 7 2011, 05:38 PM) *
Wonder how long it will take till someone trusts their 56inch plasma tv to this tape? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Well, first one use to attach less fragile objects to the wall and see how long they stick (heh) around...
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post Nov 7 2011, 06:28 PM
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The real question is:

How long before someone attaches the stuff to the wheels of a dune buggy and drives up the side of a building?
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post Nov 8 2011, 08:58 AM
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QUOTE (Draco18s @ Nov 7 2011, 02:28 PM) *
The real question is:

How long before someone attaches the stuff to the wheels of a dune buggy and drives up the side of a building?


They'll also be the first person to realize that car engines are not designed to operate at a 90' incline. I wouldn't want my engine to break down halfway up.
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post Nov 8 2011, 11:17 AM
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QUOTE (TheOOB @ Nov 8 2011, 10:58 AM) *
They'll also be the first person to realize that car engines are not designed to operate at a 90' incline. I wouldn't want my engine to break down halfway up.

Dunno, the major issue would be carburetor vs direct injection. Remember, they used piston powered fighter planes in WW2 with great success once the British switched to fuel injectors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_S..._fuel_injection
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post Nov 8 2011, 11:38 AM
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QUOTE (TheOOB @ Nov 8 2011, 09:58 AM) *
They'll also be the first person to realize that car engines are not designed to operate at a 90' incline. I wouldn't want my engine to break down halfway up.

Which would be not the worst of their problems. Wheels tend to turn and there will be dirt on the surface....

Thats one of those instances where going from the laboratory to real life equals horrible death.
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post Nov 8 2011, 12:25 PM
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QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Nov 8 2011, 12:17 PM) *
Dunno, the major issue would be carburetor vs direct injection. Remember, they used piston powered fighter planes in WW2 with great success once the British switched to fuel injectors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_S..._fuel_injection

Don't forget lubrification. Your typical 4-strokes car engine will quickly run dry if tilted. Fighter engines often used dry-sump design, but this is much less common in car engines.
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post Nov 8 2011, 01:39 PM
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Point taken.
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post Nov 8 2011, 02:35 PM
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An electric dune buggy.

Also.

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Wheels tend to turn and there will be dirt on the surface....


Or did you forget that gecko tape doesn't hold onto dirt? It's designed to be used "thousands of times" without losing adhesiveness.
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post Nov 8 2011, 02:54 PM
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@Draco18s
This would not be the point...
The problem is that your effectiv surface (beeing horribly small with tires to begin with) will be further reduced by the "dirty surface". (Here you do not have gecke tape on wall, rather geckotape on dirt on wall. Weakest link, you know...

Than of course you have a very bad angle for the force. (It is hard to pull two objects glued together away from each other but it is much easyier to turn them etc.)
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post Nov 8 2011, 03:01 PM
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Also, by the way:

Question regarding feasibility: nonexistent.
Question regarding someone dumb enough to try: unanswered.
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post Nov 8 2011, 04:42 PM
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Perhaps we could replace tires with tracks made of this stuff?
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post Nov 8 2011, 05:57 PM
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QUOTE (Draco18s @ Nov 8 2011, 10:01 AM) *
Also, by the way:

Question regarding feasibility: nonexistent.
Question regarding someone dumb enough to try: unanswered.


Given some of the truly stupid things I've seen people do on TV and on YouTube.. Someone Will Try It.
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