Science Experiment #2: Slug MPH

[betty swollocks]

I reckon a snail would be slower- less streamlined.
This'll have to be your next test 3BM.
The definite study of comparative slug/snail speeds.
Your treatise on the varying slipperyness of their different slimes will make riveting reading.

 

[gbb]

Yes yes yes, this is all very well and good, but what I want to see is what happens if you put him on a rolling treadmill (a very slow one granted)with a pair of balsa wings....will he take off ?

 

[Night Train]

Ok, following on from the great success that was my scientific experiment on frying eggs on pavements (fuggin' waste of time btw), my new highly detailed and guaranteed 110% accurate experiment was to speed test a slug.

So, we have a start point of 2.5" at 10:07.

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Anyone else opened the thread and watched that image waiting for the slug to move?

 

[classic33]

I think he's got his maths wrong.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-03/954420651.Zo.r.html
&
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/AngieYee.shtml
Scientific research into the very subject.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Unsubstantiated nonsense!

 

[TVC]

Point of experemental procedure. Was the ruler within certified calibration?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Point of experemental procedure. Was the ruler within certified calibration?

UKAS standard.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Thinking of pitching this one to the BBC for the Royal Institution Christmas lectures.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I think he's got his maths wrong.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2000-03/954420651.Zo.r.html
&
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/AngieYee.shtml
Scientific research into the very subject.

Was EPO involved? Or training at altitude?

 

[classic33]

Unsubstantiated nonsense!

Unsubstanstiated
Doherty, James G. Natural History. March 1974
Last Word, New Scientist, October 2001.
A Treatise on the Geometric and Electronic Structure of Clusters Investigated by Synchrotron Radiation Based Electron Spectroscopies, Andreas Lindblad, Uppsala Universitet, 2008.

Was EPO involved? Or training at altitude?

Articles make no mention of either, but didn't someone mention it falling out of a window, on here.

 

[Archie_tect]

Neither do I.

except for the 20 second dash when you have to get out to go to the toilet...

 

[steve52]

do snails shells make them more or less aero ?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

do snails shells make them more or less aero ?

They fly much better from a schoolboy catapult for sure

 

[classic33]

do snails shells make them more or less aero ?

Snails tend to be shorter though.

 

[classic33]

They don't go very fast after they've fallen into a beer trap.

Try dry porridge oats. You can get them to "explode".