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Nano-Suit Protects Bugs From Vacuums
sciencehabit writes "Put a fruit fly larva in a spacelike vacuum, and the results aren't pretty. Within a matter of minutes, the animal will collapse into a crinkled, lifeless husk. Now, researchers have found a way to protect the bugs: Bombard them with electrons, which form a 'nano-suit' around their bodies. The advance could help scientists take high-resolution photographs of tiny living organisms. It also suggests a new way that creatures could survive the harsh conditions of outer space and may even lead to new space travel technology for humans."
Work is also being done on electron "suits" that protect against radiation.
Read tittle, imagined tiny insect Gundam warriors battling the ferocious Gigga Vacuum cleaners. Can't bring myself to read the submission and destroy this newfound fun.
Inside Dyson spheres.
There are two types of vacuums. Spacelike vacuums and timelike vacuums. A closed timelike vacuum is one where cause and effect have meaning - ie, one in which time flies like an arrow. In a spacelike vacuum, fruit flies like a banana.
So what you're saying is, fry them a little to seal in the juicy goodness?
Let's fire off fruit-flies in every direction in space and watch every other planet's agriculture industry crumble!
It replenishes the energy gauge, allowing the insects to engage Maximum Armor
tittle (tit - tel) n. - portmanteau of 'titillating' and 'title'.
Typically used to describe news headlines that are more interesting than the article.
Unlike other portmanteau, the morphemes being combined are heterophonic -- having the same initially spellings, but different meanings;
Thus, a double t is introduced as a form of self referential onomatopoeia; The word is spelled the way it ought to sound.
"'Twasn't a typo; The tittle they typed told a more titillatious tale than the total text transmitted."
No wonder we keep getting bit by bedbugs, even after we vacuum the apartment... I'll bet the bedbug section of the NYC subway trains has little bedbug sized ads for nano-suits, matching the human sized ads for mattress covers.
so the human spacesuit of the future will be a thick coating of fruit flies dipped in honey while the mother ship sprays you with electrons? I'm not sure where to invest my stock money at this point! Electrons?
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?