Title says it all. (http://membracid.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/roaches-with-jet-packs/) 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. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
Thank you Kai for sharing more reasons why science is awesome.
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.
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:
I see they've had some success with Jet Snails.
(http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/ChuckFukmuk/active%20ones/snail_by_luchkina.gif)
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM
Also, another jetroach video. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
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:
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. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
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.
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. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
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:
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. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
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.
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. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
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.
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. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
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.
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. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
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?
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. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
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.
(http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh0375wSwU1qdby1ho1_500.jpg)
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. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
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.
(http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh0375wSwU1qdby1ho1_500.jpg)
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.
Emo Howard = prawned.
Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on January 07, 2012, 07:03:19 PM
Title says it all. (http://membracid.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/roaches-with-jet-packs/) 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. (http://www.sciencenews.org/pictures/olympics/roach_jetpack.html)
My eyes bugged out a little bit and then I emitted an amazed chuckle.
"Blaberus discoidalis is commonly known as the discoid cockroach"
I can't do accents, but izzat a discoidian cockroach?