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Row, Row, Row Your Bug Colorful Experiments Solve Water Strider Mystery: Their Middle Legs Serve as Oars By Guy Gugliotta Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 7, 2003; Page A06 Scientists have deciphered the mystery of how the tiny water strider -- a familiar denizen of your local pond -- gets around: It uses its middle set of legs as oars and rows along the water's surface at a rate of almost 31/2 feet per second. In a series of colorful experiments reported in today's issue of the journal Nature , a team of researchers led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematician John W.M. Bush used high-speed video and blue-dyed water to track striders as they darted past the camera, leaving vortices as neat as those made by a sculler in a boat race. Go here for the rest of the article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2003Aug6.html k30a and the watergardening labradors http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...ors/index.html |
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Very nice !
Would love to see the pictures someday. Theo "K30a" schreef in bericht ... Row, Row, Row Your Bug |
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There is one picture here.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0807/p...tryBottomStory I found this stuff on http://news.google.com/ The neat thing about this site is that they link 17 other stories about the same thing. Christian Science Monitor had a picture. Others might have better ones. Stories about Ben and J'Lo's terrible new movie and possible trouble in paradise are listed at 154. And proposed Gov Terminator at 715. k30a and the watergardening labradors http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...ors/index.html |
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Aha ! Good pointer, thanks. That picture looks amazing. Science can be a wonderful thing. Theo |
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"K30a" wrote in message ... Row, Row, Row Your Bug Colorful Experiments Solve Water Strider Mystery: Their Middle Legs Serve as Oars By Guy Gugliotta Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 7, 2003; Page A06 Scientists have deciphered the mystery of how the tiny water strider -- a familiar denizen of your local pond -- gets around: It uses its middle set of legs as oars and rows along the water's surface at a rate of almost 31/2 feet per second. In a series of colorful experiments reported in today's issue of the journal Nature , a team of researchers led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematician John W.M. Bush used high-speed video and blue-dyed water to track striders as they darted past the camera, leaving vortices as neat as those made by a sculler in a boat race. My smart-a$$ nephew said the other day, "If they only swim, how'd they get to your pond?" Little punk. BV. |
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BV wrote My smart-a$$ nephew said the other day, "If they only swim, how'd
they get to your pond?" Brilliant child :-) This question is probably what started me on my collection of 60 odd reference books. Tell your nephew that they also fly. Underneath the leathery surface of their backs are wings. They take off at night. They spot your pond by the light of the stars and the moon. You can get aquatic insects to land on a piece of black plastic, same effect. k30a and the watergardening labradors http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...ors/index.html |
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They spot your pond by the light of the stars and the moon.
You can get aquatic insects to land on a piece of black plastic, same effect. Just had a brilliant idea on how to catch herons... off to the patents office ;-) |
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Theo wrote Just had a brilliant idea on how to catch herons... off to the
patents office ;-) Whaaaaaaaaaaat? k30a and the watergardening labradors http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...ors/index.html |
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Well... herons find ponds in the same way (silvery shine/reflection from
stars/moon at dawn/dusk), so if I just put some black plastic with superglue next to the pond, they are toast. Damn, now I gave it away ;-) Theo Whaaaaaaaaaaat? |
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Theo wrote Damn, now I gave it away ;-)
And thereby your millions of dollars from manufacturing and selling them... drat! k30a and the watergardening labradors http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...ors/index.html |
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Yeah ! All your fault. LOL
Oh well, off to think of another "get rich in 30 days" dodgy scheme :-) Theo And thereby your millions of dollars from manufacturing and selling them... drat! |
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