We can’t believe the first week of chats is nearly over! It’s been a pretty busy day and tomorrow’s going to be hectic too. Once again we’ve picked out some of the best bits to entertain and inform you – today’s highlights include noisy shrimps, helium rain on Jupiter and… frogs.
Did you know…
- Snapping shrimp are noisy sea-dwellers:
mariatereza : what is the most intresting sound in the water
sophieholles : Snapping shrimp that live on coral reefs make really interesting sounds in the water.. they snap their claws together so fast that they create a vacuum of zero pressure, that makes a sort of air bubble. But the water around it makes it collapse really quickly and that makes a snapping sound. They use it to stun their prey and to announce their territories
High Speed Lights by Magicknight94 for Wikimedia
- It’s impossible to travel at the speed of light:
scienzerking4life : if you go to the speed of light will you be able to see everything around you in slow motion?
edwardbovill : A very good question – but you could never travel at the speed of light. As you speed up your mass increases and as you approach the speed of light your mass goes to infinity. This means that nothing will mass can travel at the speed of light.
- Future sticky tape could be designed based on frog feet:
westfieldprimary : Could we use frog mucus to develop new glues?
niallcrawford : maybe not the mucus, but the design of the frogs feet with any liquid could make a cool sticky tape
2000+ questions – you’ve definitely been busy!
We’re on top of your questions and so are the scientists, here’s our pick of the day:
- Because Jupiter has helium rain if you go there does your voice go squeaky when it rains?
- Is it possible to develop a medicine that evolves with the virus?
- What do you predict humans will look like in the future?
- Would you say you could love a frog more than a human?
You can explore all of the questions asked in each of the different zones.