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Tokyo Scientists Create Mobile Slime

Posted by samzenpus on from the godzilla's-newest-foe dept.

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."

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  1. Suddenly SLIME RAPE! by jack2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Suddenly all of those tentacle slime rape Hentai animes don't look so implausible do they? Shudder...

  2. gentlemen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We must improve our salt-shaker technology.

  3. Re:Big Deal by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sometimes, I even create mobile slime with a female.

    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.

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  4. This is WotC by Mhtsos · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're asking for 14d10+40 million dollars. The outcome of the trial will be decided by opposing Profession (Lawyer) checks.

  5. All I have to say is by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Aaaachooooooo!

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