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The World's Strongest Glue
missing_myself writes "Yahoo news reports the world's strongest glue is made by bacteria. "The adhesive can withstand an enormous amount of stress, equal to the force felt by a quarter with more than three cars piled on top of it." Time to get rid of the duct tape? "
Blasphemy!
And does it dissolve after being exposed to air?
Stop the world; I need to get off.
Or something close... it was alive and sticky, that's for sure.
If it's that sticky, how do we ever get it out of the bottle?
On another note, this stuff would would really make the old glue-friend's-hand-to-forehead-or-other-body-part prank very painful...
How much do you want to bet that the glue only lives up to these claims on one substance in the entire universe ... dry human skin (i.e. fingers)?
Horses everywhere rejoice.
My chair is so covered in duct/duck tape due to the armrests falling off that nobody but me will sit it in. Get rid of duct/duck tape? I think not!
This will mark the end of grandmas loosing their dentures while skydiving.
"One possibility would be as a biodegradable surgical adhesive."
Now I can see surgical scissors being left in your abdomen and crazy-glued to your internal organs.
I'm sure Elmer will say they have a patent on sticking one thing to another. Or maybe that was the Porn Industry's patent.
"There are obvious applications since this adhesive works on wet surfaces,"
"We tried washing the glue off," Brun said. "It didn't work."
Rod Taylor
B: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
P: Uh... I think so Brain, but where will we find that much caulobacter crescentus, three cars, and a quarter at this time of night?
Three cars per quarter? I don't get it. How much is that in Eiffel Towers per square millicubit?
"Time to get rid of the duct tape?"
Get rid of it?! No way! I say improve it. Imagine duct tape combined with this supersuperglue. My God, it'd be like Astroboy and Atlas working together to defeat a common foe!
Or something.
"quarter with more than three cars piled on top of it" Can any one convert this to libraries of congress/volkswagen beetles?
But how does it *taste*?
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
"The single-celled bacterium uses sugar molecules to stay put in rivers, streams, and water pipes, a new study found."
Now... if I feed it something (like, I guess sugar), would it grow though? Imagine the instructions: "mix with sugar 4:1"...
And further, if I use it to glue a broken sugar bowl, should I expect a self-replicating glue disaster?
"It's not clear how the glue actually works, however, but researchers presume some special proteins must be attached to the sugars."
Well that sounds ensuring, right guys. Reminds me of that movie, The Stuff (1985).
A bunch of scientists like our folks here, discover weird white substance on one of the Earth Poles (please save me the jokes on what you think it was). So naturally, what you think he does? He tastes it, and it's good.
So they just come with the tankers and start pumping it out and selling it as food. Turns out it eats you from the inside and turns you into a zombie.
By the way, has anyone tried to eat that glue and see what it tastes like?
I bet your post would be funnier if I was a physics dork.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
It is even worse because people that are not from the United States (like me) don't even know what a quarter looks like.
It's about twice the diameter of a dime.
You're welcome.
I mean, the duct-tape has a gummy glue that dries out, the fibrous tape tears easily, has poor high-temperature properties, and is not waterproof. What more could you want?
--- Jason Olshefsky
Karma: Poser (mostly affected by adding this line long after everyone else did)
With great difficulty?
``Ragnarok
Of course, the unit makes almost no sense anyways, because most people are going to puzzle about the force it takes to tear two glued things apart when the measurement is given in two (well, four) things being pressed together. I'm thinking an x-pound (or kilogram, for the rest of the world) weight being lifted might actually be appropriate. So now ungluing that prank quarter will require the same lift as some stupid amount of weight to remove. Certainly the crowbar you'll need to achieve such a force will cost more than the quarter you'll gain, unless you're one of those Gordon Freeman types.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Something to keep the chairs planted firmly on the floor at Micorsoft!
But then people not from the US won't know what a dime...
Oh, wait...
... it's what happens when you sniff it.
No Inflation Taxation without Representation
(Flashback to elementary school)
"Hmm, I need some glue. Here we go. 'super' glue. That sounds about right."
(Reading instructions while using glue)
"...bonds instantly with skin..."
(Enthusiasm at finding 'super' glue turns to horror upon realizing that I just glued my hands together.)
This product is going to be fun!
~Ben
I'll bet any amount of money my son will still be able to break all the wheels of his toy cars after I've glued them back on.
No, I think that's more of a personality issue.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
It's quarters all the way up....
Venn ist das nurnstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ya! Beigerhund das oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Store product in a safe place when having sex.
That's easy. Just take any non-American car of a similar make and model. Then, find the ten most crucial parts of the engine that contribute to longer life. Replace them with the cheapest parts that you can find on the market, and add a ton or two to the frame to reduce gas milage.
Viola! Instant American-made vehicle.
Oh well, I'm sure there's some application for this.
A dime is the same size as a Australian 1 cent coin.
That should put a end to this thread!
I know, because I used them to defraud the paper boxes in town.
Amateurs.
Both stress and pressure are measured in force/area, so can be used interchangeably. (Right now I'm writing home: Mom! Stuff I specialised in Grad School is useful after all!)
It can keep my wife's mouth shut for even just an hour....