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New Theory on Water Strider Propulsion
capt.Hij writes "There is an interesting
article at the Christian Science Monitor about how water skimmers are able to move the way they do. This new theory debunks the previously accepted theory and answers why smaller, younger water skimmers are also able to move the same way as their elders: 'As he looked into the question, he adds, he learned that the reigning explanation leaves an unsolved puzzle: If these tiny insects propel themselves in the way many researchers think they do, then baby water striders should go nowhere fast.'" There's also a BBC story with pictures.
Everybody whose anybody knows waterstriders use anti-matter as propulsion.
All I know about water skimmers/skippers is they're a bugger to hit with rocks, unless you get a really big, flat rock and even then you mostly just get yourself wet and still miss the skimmer.
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither!"
a) It's in Christian Science Monitor
b) It's about skimming over the water.
Chances are, Jesus features in the answer.
I assume that Sci-Am doesn't explain how Jesus was able to walk AND propel himself on water.
They move because they put their faith in jesus and he spirits them along over the water on the wings of christ.
Damn dude, it said the CHRISTIAN science monitor.
You remember.. the people who don't believe in evolution? Or stem cell research? Or cloning?
I think that since Science doesn't have all the answers its a false god and we must believe in the one god and creation.
I mean, how else do you explain the elephant? Or even Gigli?
My god is a peaceful loving god. If you say otherwise, I'll attack somebody in northern island.
... is a bug!
Walking on water isn't hard. Everyone can do it - just make sure that the temperature of the fluid-to-be-walked-on is subzero.
Of course they get everywhere. They have such nifty propulsion systems after all.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
So what you're saying is, you're a Christian troll?
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the microorganisms that live symbiotically inside of me think of me as "God".
It seems that we have a Christian source of information related to walking on water?
:-)
At least it is their own IP
It's not the Red Sea, it's the Lake of Gennesaret.
;)
The Rea Sea was the one where the surface tension didn't hold up to the weight of the Egyptian Army
Just my E0.02.
Not so! For you see, the cat can stay aloft as long as it still has lives to use. It would only sink and die following the expiriation of its last life. ;)
"Doctor" and "Bush". After the last few years, I have a lot of trouble visualizing that...
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> Now all we need is to figure out how to make water have enough tension to hold a person. Hrmm...
Simple. This happens naturally where I live. I simply have to wait until, say, mid-November. The surface tension remains high until some time in spring. It only works for water kept outside or in an unheated building.
-srw