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Uploaded by on Feb 8, 2010

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527443.900

An oil droplet floating on an aqueous solution can make its own way through a labyrinth

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  • does the drop know how to love?

  • put in a blue droplet and a red one, then race them for money

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  • hook a vacuum to the exit and the droplet will find its way too.

  • is it the drop that is intelligent, or is it the relationship that the drop exists in that is intelligent? If you had said "We can make this drop spell the letter A" you might have come closer to the ideal you implied, which was really "intelligence you can reason with". What happens if you give the droplet a choice? Is the result average...?

  • thats not cool i can do that with my jizz

  • @TheMerlinOfAR really? like, the drop doesnt even have a brain? what a ripoff, right? we all came expecting a drop with a brain. Maybe even omniscient. Honestly, I completely agree with your disappointment.

  • @13Cucl i know

  • this lab is stolen from here tanktrouble :P

  • @broetchenmampfer

    Capillary action. Either that, or cohesive and/or adhesive motion.

  • @TheGuyInUrCloset he clearly explained how it works...

  • @TheMerlinOfAR thats why its in quotations

  • this has to be fake, but if not, DAMN! That shits fuckin amazing!

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