5 Strangest Materials

MattSparkes writes to tell us that NewScientist recently posted a quick look at five interesting materials with some very strange properties. There are liquids you can walk on, liquids that will escape containers by creeping up the sides, and magnetic liquids that can easily show you the shape of magnetic fields. The story also offers video links to display some of more amazing properties described.

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Not relevant to my life

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't answer the question why my bank account is always drained.

Water comes to mind

[G00F]

Now I haven't RTFA yet, but going off just the blurb:

There are liquids you can walk on, liquids that will escape containers by creeping up the sides, and magnetic liquids that can easily show you the shape of magnetic fields.

Funny, how water can be made to do those.

• Liquids you can walk on: Plenty of small creatures walk on water as a liquid, and so could a human with the right pair of shoes, or moving fast enough.
  
• liquids that will escape containers by creeping up the sides: Put a straw in a glass of water, and the water will be higher in the straw. Do it with a smaller/thinner tube.
  
• magnetic liquids that can easily show you the shape of magnetic fields: again you can do this with putting things in the water.
  

Re:I have one for you

[Anonymous Coward]

Diabetes is due to a government engineered virus, designed to attack fat people preferentially, so they get diabetes (the virus lives in fat cells and releases anti-insulinic factors). This is so a sigmatized group would get sick with a dread disease (it kills you but takes your limbs first) and be more sigmatized so they can be put in concentration camps and this can get the infrastructure in place so it can be used to control the people as a whole. Something similar might be at work with African-Americans, they get sick way too often - the gov't can have made a virus for them too.