Cambridge Ideas - Sticky Feet
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Uploaded by CambridgeUniversity on Feb 15, 2010
Ants have incredibly sticky feet. With them they can hang onto ceilings, while carrying 100 times their body weight. But if they are stuck down so successfully - how do they ever get them unstuck? Chris Clemente is studying the mechanisms that ants and other insects (especially cockroaches) use to stick and unstick, and also to walk down as well as up walls. He also considers the applications that this might one day help to develop a 'supersuper glue' and to improve the movement of robots.
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This shows God's creativity, and I think this guy knows it and that's part of his excitement - he doesn't just routinely say "oh, it's such a coincidence" ....that gets old, it's a "broken record"
For anyone watching this, you've gotta see it or you're trying to avoid how amazing this is ... "Did it come from slime? No, stop making excuses, LOL!! "
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the "antser" is in their feet
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very clear video....interesting topic...
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amazing guy. amazing, amazing guy!
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I envy him :) He has job which he loves, that's great.
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@nemesisnick66: thats probably true!!
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Love the guys enthusiasm, its highly contagious
1 year ago 4
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Super cool video. What kind of super glues do we have that were modeled after insects? Are they cyanoacrylates like our other super glues? I imagine not if you said they can become undone and re-stick. Nucleophilic catatlized polymerization doesn't exactly rewind itself and work backwards.
Isn't life amazing?
1 year ago 2
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I love this guy's enthusiasm.
1 year ago 8
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Awesome, musicman53 said it exactly right!
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Excellent video, I love listening to people who are experts in obscure areas and have a real passion about what they do!
This guy is great.
musicman53 2 years ago 54
my friends...the cockroaches LOL
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