62449 - Mystery solved: how a gecko sticks to your window

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[mozilla]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i586; en-US; 0.6) Gecko/20001205
BuildID:    ALL

Geckos can't stick to windows, only they do. For a long time, as with bumblebee
flight, nobody knew how they did it. It turns out that on a smooth (clean)
surface, a single gecko might support as much as four pounds; here's how.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Place gecko on vertical window.

Actual Results:  Gecko sticks to window.

Expected Results:  Gecko falls off window.

FYI: It turns out that the gecko's foot-pads are covered with tiny hairs, each
about 0.1mm long, and each of which multifurcate into 600-1000 even tinier
hairs, each with a little pad on the end. These millions of little pads spread
out like a soft brush on whatever surface is underfoot, and nestle in so closely
that the combined van der Waals forces are more than enough to allow a gecko to
not only stick but run, jump and lunge on a vertical surface such as a window.
Geckos are the only creature which does this, and as with turtles and countless
other lifeforms, have no known evolutionary relatives with similar features.
This makes them better explorers than Explorer, and better escapers and netters
than Netscape. Know now that when Gecko code gets hairy, it's absolutely
essential for proper functioning of the Gecko. (-:

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

This is a blatant attempt to be funny, but it failed.  QA assigning to doron to 
verify that the reporter isn't humorous.

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

VERIFIED INVALID (although I did feel it was sorta funny).

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

i usually use superglue, but that's me.  But it is funny, just over long