2006-10-02 10:00:54 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
there was an article in the Saturday guardian a few weeks ago about a new material they are trying to develop along the lines of Velcro, but using the same type of adhesion as on the feet of Geckos. It was saying that it would be 'sticky' both sides and a square metre would be enough to pick up a car.
I don't think it was a wind-up. try the guardian web site
2006-10-02 21:27:03 · answer #1 · answered by doctor ross 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unless Humans pick up the speed in evolution, it's most unlikely that we will ever climb walls like Spiderman.
2006-10-02 10:35:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We already can!
Insects have little pads, called arolia, between the hooked claws on the tips of their legs. When climbing on rough surfaces, such as a wall or ceiling they use those tiny little claws. If you could see the surface of your walls and ceilings through a microscope, you'd see there are plenty of places for tiny things to put their hooks and climb away. Compare it in Scale to a human climbing a rock wall and it is the same thing. We are bigger and heavier so we need larger foot and hand holds. So with the right equipment, training and strength, Humans can already climb like spiders and insects. We just do it in OUR SCALE!
2006-10-02 10:16:34 · answer #3 · answered by S U 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well.. if you think back when cavemen were the only human being around.. they had bodies like apes and moneys! I actually read somewhere that they dug up a skeleton of a little girl that had an apelike body like 500BC or something.. search it up sometime lol
but if in the beginning we started out like apes, maybe in the far future..just maybe... we would evolve into spiders or monkeys again. You never know :S
2006-10-02 10:07:19 · answer #4 · answered by Aries1704 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you're using having unwell from uncooked meat as an occasion, what approximately while people fall unwell from vegetables, does that recommend they do no longer seem to be meant to devour them the two? bear in mind that the huge nutrients born ailment scandal in Europe a jointly as back replaced into traced back to cucumbers. the huge remembers and ailment in the present previous in the U. S. have been from melons, spinach, peanut butter, eco-friendly onions, tomatoes, etc... So how does that for the period of fantastic condition into your arguement? AND what makes you think of our ancestors did no longer prepare dinner meat? in the event that they have been in a position to maintain themselves heat in chilly climates, that they had clothing(skins) AND hearth. They cooked. there is passable info of this in the few early human cadavers discovered and examined.
2016-10-18 09:10:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never say never but I don't think so
Genetic drift and mutations
as well as natural selection will dictate favorable traits but there is nobody being born with sticky hands that is passing on their genes for wall climbing
because of this I don't see it happening.
make sense
2006-10-02 10:05:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no the point of contact and friction needed would be more than the size of the human body
2006-10-02 10:04:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm maybe. you should try this to find out: go to the top of a really tall building and try to run down the side onto the ground. let me know how that turns out.
2006-10-02 11:27:23 · answer #8 · answered by nrmlpplscareme47 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Now that evolution has brought us as far as the escalator and lift, I don't see that we would ever have to.
2006-10-04 03:58:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not unless there is a mutation and a change in environment hat makes it beneficial or improves ecological fitness.
2006-10-05 16:37:11 · answer #10 · answered by frankiethebear2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋