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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!
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.
This will mark the end of grandmas loosing their dentures while skydiving.
"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.
"But how does it *taste*?"
This glue tastes like... burning.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
"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?
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.
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...
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.
It can keep my wife's mouth shut for even just an hour....