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Old 05-18-2021, 03:01 PM   #6
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Default Re: Putting a 29 CCPU together and found something new

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Unless I am mistaken, this tape is copied from the pads of geckos. They have tiny hairs that are so small that they use the molecular attraction. It is not static electricity but the same attraction that holds the molecules in solids together. The geckos have to actually peal their pads off surfaces. You see them climbing on glass. It is called Van der Waal force.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_setae
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