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Senior board member | 2007-12-11 14:46:36

so what the.... is a Water Strider ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_strider
for other dummies like me - the attached link will tell you.
Fascinating stuff and leads to a lot of - "can we take this technology and use it" to develop new stuff which we can use to improve the lot of mankind (and womankind)- and make a dollar along the way

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DesD ()

Newbie | 2007-12-11 15:09:17

And for those who may wish to research this a bit more, the attached link takes you to the NanoRobotics Laboratory home page and you can watch the robot video
http://nanolab.me.cmu.edu/projects/waterstrider/

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Ozzie ()

Newbie | 2007-12-11 15:16:55

I guess that there are some things that I just never thought about and this is one of them - obviously Mother Nature did and came up with this technology - I think that we should be doing more of this type of research - why re invent the wheel if it's already been done

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Ali ()

Newbie | 2007-12-11 15:21:28

so the next time I squash one of these bugs I need to think about the remarkable engineering

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Sal ()

Newbie | 2007-12-11 15:27:56

there are many of these insects, animals and birds which fall into the same catagory of remarkable technical and engineering abilities -ants are an example and the humming bird - there are so many. - so yeah - instead of destroying mother nature, lets use her to improve what we do and how we live

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Ozzie ()

Newbie | 2007-12-11 19:43:34

http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/
this is a subject which opens a lot of doors in the thought process - this is a good site to see what others are thinking and doing in this area -

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Sal ()

Newbie | 2007-12-11 19:46:37

not just in the area of engineering design - but also in the area of pollution control and sustainable living - nature has evolved these techniques over many many years - and it worked - well it did untill the humans got involved and stuffed things up

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Sal ()

Newbie | 2007-12-11 19:49:31

http://www.ornithopter.org/
I reckon that this is interesting - a different concept to what we are currently using for flight - again, its been evolved over thousands of years and seems to work pretty good

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