On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:48:33 -0500, John Penta
wrote:

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:26:44 -0700, Scott Ferrin
wrote:

I don't know that this falls in the "friction" dept. but the stuff
they've been finding out about gecko feet is pretty interesting.

They've been using it to create Spidey-suits (my personal name for
em), haven't they?


Well they'd like to but they still haven't figured out how geckos keep
their feet clean :-) Think of the stuff they've played around with as
very sticky tape. Not that it wouldn't have it's own uses but as it
picks up dirt and dust and everything else it becomes less effective.




I could see fun tactical uses for it, personally.