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Tokyo Scientists Create Mobile Slime
Sockatume writes "Shingo Maeda and colleagues at Waseda University have created a polymer gel that walks under its own chemical power. The team exploited the oscillating Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction to create periodic changes in the size of the polymer, and built a tensed structure that would amplify those small movements into a horrifically potent gait. The current version only walks across a notched surface, but the team are working on a terrible new form that will cross smooth surfaces like a snail. The team say they intend to apply it in the self-assembly of small structures. Suddenly, I can't stop screaming."
Suddenly all of those tentacle slime rape Hentai animes don't look so implausible do they? Shudder...
I for one welcome our oscillating polymer overlords.
We must improve our salt-shaker technology.
Hmm, plenty of Google results for "great sponge migration", but none for "great slime migration". Your time has come slime, your time has come.
If he's the Walrus then can I be a penguin please?
Liar.
You're a slashdotter. The slashdotter relationship function is a binary function.
Either you have no hope of getting a piece, which makes you a liar, or you're married, which also makes you a liar.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Somehow, I don't see it being very long before someone applies this to the technology of sexual aids. And being Japanese in origin, I think it may actually be the intended use.
I can see the fnords!
Reminds me of the movie The Green Slime I saw when I was way too young to be watching late-night TV.
... my answer to the "how much longer do you expect to live" poll question.
With that thing on the loose, not much longer, I fear....
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth gets you modded -1 Troll
...not to mention every other Hollywood SFX house are drooling all the way down their shirts.
We are the 198 proof..
They're asking for 14d10+40 million dollars. The outcome of the trial will be decided by opposing Profession (Lawyer) checks.
Aaaachooooooo!
Table-ized A.I.
everyone needs a gelatinous cube
That walks?
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Simmer down, it's a joke. See, it plays on the two most common sterotypes of adult males who don't have sex, which are basement-dwelling nerds and married men. The 'get a piece' term was used for it's directness, hints of sexual ignorance and/or cavalierness, and mouthflow to enhance the basic premise of the joke.
Obviously, those stereotypes don't always apply (actually, they usally *aren't* applicable, but since there is a tinge of truth to them, they remain good sources for humor). And while 'get a piece' may be offensive to some, that's part of what makes it a useful phrase in crafting humor.
Now that I've needed to explain this in great detail, while a simple *whoosh* may or may not have been sufficient... let me just say this:
Jokesmithing is serious business. I are serious jokester.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
How else is it supposed to keep your dungeon clean?
ON DELETE CASCADE
This could revolutionize the hair gel industry. Think of it... oscillating, dynamically waving hair!
New here much?
[counts the digits]
Yes. Yes you are.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belousov%E2%80%93Zhabotinsky_reaction
...These reactions are far from equilibrium and remain so for a significant length of time...
...An essential aspect of the BZ reaction is its so called "excitability" â" under the influence of stimuli, patterns develop in what would otherwise be a perfectly quiescent medium. Some clock reactions... can be excited into self-organising activity through the influence of light...
Well, looks like the power-transmission problem is solved - just shine a flashlight on the thing.
...The discovery of the phenomenon is credited to Boris Belousov. He noted... that in a mix of potassium bromate, cerium(IV) sulfate, propanedioic acid and citric acid in dilute sulfuric acid...
Hang on a second. That's not exactly a common mix. Was this guy trying out for the "Most Random Acid Cocktail" award?
Great, now all we have to do is see if it responds to music, spray the insides of the Statue of Liberty with it, crank up the tunes and have her walk down the streets of New York.
They could even make a movie out of it! Or a sequel!
Jokesmithing is serious business. I are serious jokester.
So I presume you practice Slight of Wit?
No, I understand him. Really I do. I studied humour seriously for many years. It's so hard to get people to understand the seriousness of this study. Yes.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
How else is it supposed to keep your dungeon clean?
You Fourth Edition guys.....
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
GhostBusters!
No, I understand him. Really I do. I studied humour seriously for many years. It's so hard to get people to understand the seriousness of this study. Yes.
"When I first said I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me."