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Cockroaches with jet packs.

Started by Kai, January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM

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Kai

Title says it all. Some researchers wanted to test the stride reaction time of an insect to find out just how stable having six legs in tripodal alternation really is. So they strapped some jet packs to roaches and fired them off in front of a high speed camera, and the roaches barely broke stride.

Also, another jetroach video.
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Don Coyote

Thank you Kai for sharing more reasons why science is awesome.


Kai

Quote from: Don Coyote on January 07, 2012, 07:13:13 PM
Thank you Kai for sharing more reasons why science is awesome.

I'm trying to think of ways we could get them in sustained flight. Rocketroaches.
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Grand Visser of the Six Legged Class
Chanticleer of the Holometabola Clade Church, Diptera Parish

Don Coyote

Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:14:44 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on January 07, 2012, 07:13:13 PM
Thank you Kai for sharing more reasons why science is awesome.

I'm trying to think of ways we could get them in sustained flight. Rocketroaches.

:horrormirth:

BadBeast

I see they've had some success with Jet Snails.
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM

Also, another jetroach video.

That's not a jetpack, it's a cannon. This is mad science, obvoiusly hell bent on taking over the world using an army of armed insects  :scared:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
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walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

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BadBeast

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 20, 2012, 08:54:45 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM

Also, another jetroach video.

That's not a jetpack, it's a cannon. This is mad science, obvoiusly hell bent on taking over the world using an army of armed insects  :scared:
A Snail isn't an insect, it's a kind of snot Lobster. Without the legs.
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: BadBeast on January 20, 2012, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 20, 2012, 08:54:45 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM

Also, another jetroach video.

That's not a jetpack, it's a cannon. This is mad science, obvoiusly hell bent on taking over the world using an army of armed insects  :scared:
A Snail isn't an insect, it's a kind of snot Lobster. Without the legs.

The cockroach video, not the snail gif  :roll:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Bruno

Quote from: BadBeast on January 20, 2012, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 20, 2012, 08:54:45 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM

Also, another jetroach video.

That's not a jetpack, it's a cannon. This is mad science, obvoiusly hell bent on taking over the world using an army of armed insects  :scared:
A Snail isn't an insect, it's a kind of snot Lobster. Without the legs.


Closer to an octopus or clam, I think.
Formerly something else...

Kai

Quote from: Emo Howard on January 21, 2012, 08:50:54 AM
Quote from: BadBeast on January 20, 2012, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 20, 2012, 08:54:45 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM

Also, another jetroach video.

That's not a jetpack, it's a cannon. This is mad science, obvoiusly hell bent on taking over the world using an army of armed insects  :scared:
A Snail isn't an insect, it's a kind of snot Lobster. Without the legs.


Closer to an octopus or clam, I think.

Snails are shell bearing gastropod mollusks. Insects are Arthropods. The former are Lophotrochozoans, and the latter are Ecdyzoans. In other words, Insects are more closely related to nematode worms than they are to mollusks. There's a 500+ million year separation between those two groups.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

Her Royal Majesty's Chief of Insect Genitalia Dissection
Grand Visser of the Six Legged Class
Chanticleer of the Holometabola Clade Church, Diptera Parish

BadBeast

Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 21, 2012, 12:29:29 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on January 21, 2012, 08:50:54 AM
Quote from: BadBeast on January 20, 2012, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 20, 2012, 08:54:45 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM

Also, another jetroach video.

That's not a jetpack, it's a cannon. This is mad science, obvoiusly hell bent on taking over the world using an army of armed insects  :scared:
A Snail isn't an insect, it's a kind of snot Lobster. Without the legs.


Closer to an octopus or clam, I think.

Snails are shell bearing gastropod mollusks. Insects are Arthropods. The former are Lophotrochozoans, and the latter are Ecdyzoans. In other words, Insects are more closely related to nematode worms than they are to mollusks. There's a 500+ million year separation between those two groups.
Ah, I may have been thinking of Tortoises.
"We need a plane for Bombing, Strafing, Assault and Battery, Interception, Ground Support, and Reconaissance,
NOT JUST A "FAIR WEATHER FIGHTER"!

"I kinda like him. It's like he sees inside my soul" ~ Nigel


Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me, is a usurper, and a tyrant, and I declare them my enemy!

"And when the clouds obscure the moon, and normal service is resumed. It wont. Mean. A. Thing"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpkCJDYxH-4

Bruno

Quote from: BadBeast on January 22, 2012, 12:00:05 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 21, 2012, 12:29:29 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on January 21, 2012, 08:50:54 AM
Quote from: BadBeast on January 20, 2012, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 20, 2012, 08:54:45 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM

Also, another jetroach video.

That's not a jetpack, it's a cannon. This is mad science, obvoiusly hell bent on taking over the world using an army of armed insects  :scared:
A Snail isn't an insect, it's a kind of snot Lobster. Without the legs.


Closer to an octopus or clam, I think.

Snails are shell bearing gastropod mollusks. Insects are Arthropods. The former are Lophotrochozoans, and the latter are Ecdyzoans. In other words, Insects are more closely related to nematode worms than they are to mollusks. There's a 500+ million year separation between those two groups.
Ah, I may have been thinking of Tortoises.

Tortoises are closer to fungi, bro. Didn't you play Mario Brothers?
Formerly something else...

Bruno

Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 21, 2012, 12:29:29 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on January 21, 2012, 08:50:54 AM
Quote from: BadBeast on January 20, 2012, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 20, 2012, 08:54:45 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM

Also, another jetroach video.

That's not a jetpack, it's a cannon. This is mad science, obvoiusly hell bent on taking over the world using an army of armed insects  :scared:
A Snail isn't an insect, it's a kind of snot Lobster. Without the legs.


Closer to an octopus or clam, I think.

Snails are shell bearing gastropod mollusks. Insects are Arthropods. The former are Lophotrochozoans, and the latter are Ecdyzoans. In other words, Insects are more closely related to nematode worms than they are to mollusks. There's a 500+ million year separation between those two groups.


I remember watching a thing on one a those sciencey channels once where it said that animals come in three kinds: octopusses, insects, and us folk. Octopusses are basically the geniuses of their folk, and all the insects' family is basically reatarded, I think.

Formerly something else...

Kai

Quote from: Emo Howard on January 22, 2012, 02:04:39 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 21, 2012, 12:29:29 PM
Quote from: Emo Howard on January 21, 2012, 08:50:54 AM
Quote from: BadBeast on January 20, 2012, 10:22:28 AM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 20, 2012, 08:54:45 AM
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM

Also, another jetroach video.

That's not a jetpack, it's a cannon. This is mad science, obvoiusly hell bent on taking over the world using an army of armed insects  :scared:
A Snail isn't an insect, it's a kind of snot Lobster. Without the legs.


Closer to an octopus or clam, I think.

Snails are shell bearing gastropod mollusks. Insects are Arthropods. The former are Lophotrochozoans, and the latter are Ecdyzoans. In other words, Insects are more closely related to nematode worms than they are to mollusks. There's a 500+ million year separation between those two groups.


I remember watching a thing on one a those sciencey channels once where it said that animals come in three kinds: octopusses, insects, and us folk. Octopusses are basically the geniuses of their folk, and all the insects' family is basically reatarded, I think.



That is mistaken. There are at least six major groups of animals (Metazoa): The parazoa, which includes sponges; Radiata, including jellies, hydra, comb jellies, etc; Deuterostomia, including vertebrates; Ecdyzoa, which all molt their cuticle, including nematodes and arthropods; Lophotrochozoa, including mollusks and annelid worms; and Platyzoa, which includes platyheminth flatworms and rotifers, among others.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

Her Royal Majesty's Chief of Insect Genitalia Dissection
Grand Visser of the Six Legged Class
Chanticleer of the Holometabola Clade Church, Diptera Parish

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