{"id":55,"date":"2003-06-02T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2003-06-02T21:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2003-06-02T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2003-06-02T21:31:35","slug":"yeah-but-hed-still-need-a-web-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/2003\/06\/02\/yeah-but-hed-still-need-a-web-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, but he&#8217;d still need a web-shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/\">The Independent<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a tape so strong that the amount needed to cover your palms could let you <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/science_medical\/story.jsp?story=411549\">stick to the ceiling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A combination of capillary force and Van der Waals interaction supply the stickiness.<\/p>\n<p>However, it turns out the scientists are spoilsports:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have also considered producing a large amount of gecko tape, sufficient amounts to enable a student to hang out of a window of a tall building,&#8221; Professor Geim said. &#8220;However, it would cost too much money, and would not benefit us scientifically, so we have limited our demonstration to the Spiderman toy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via The Independent) Researchers have developed a tape so strong that the amount needed to cover your palms could let you stick to the ceiling. A combination of capillary force and Van der Waals interaction supply the stickiness. However, it turns out the scientists are spoilsports: &#8220;We have also considered producing a large amount of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}