*** Doing engineering the cow stable *** Investigating cow udders in a stable in Carinthia. Biomimetics means learning from nature, and cow udders are auxetic materials, which, when stretched, become thicker perpendicularly to the applied force, and not thinner such as most other materials. Also cat teeth and chameleon tongues exhibit the fascinating auxetic property that might be used in biomimetic development of less noisy airplanes, helping to direct noise away from the passenger cabin, or in the development of nails that would be easy to hammer into the wall, but that, once inside, would become thicker and stabilise themselves automatically. The markings on my hand are from testing the best pen to use: in the competition between lipliner and eyeliner the eyeliner won, and was used to draw the grid on the cow udder. The farmers were so happy that their cow served as research subject for an engineering project that they did not want me to clean off the eyeliner from the udder, and they proudly showed their marked scientific cow to all their friends :)
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 04:27:33 +0000
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