This is crazy.

[ManBearPig]

http://community.atom.com/Post...F0182C7B8000800A5BDC5/

 

[LordMaul]

Congrats, you can use Digg.

 

[cirrhosis]

Originally posted by: LordMaul
Congrats, you can use Digg.

I concur.

 

[AmdEmAll]

Shens on that pistol shrimp

 

[eits]

haha "what the fuck?! snakes can fly?! i quit life."

 

[Cuda1447]

Pistol shrimp can create heat greater than the sun? WTF.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Cuda1447
Pistol shrimp can create heat greater than the sun? WTF.

Probably just in a tiny clump of atoms.

A static spark is probably several thousand degrees, but the volume that's being heated is incredibly tiny.
But the result is a shock wave: it's high-frequency, so you hear a little "zap," but it's the same thing that lightning does. Lightning just sounds lower-pitched because of the larger size of the spark.

But those tiny vacuum bubble implosions can be incredibly energetic.
Cavitation pitting in hydraulic cylinders is an example of what happens when small bubbles implode - it's enough to cause accelerated erosion to a solid metal component.

 

[gsethi]

Originally posted by: Cuda1447
Pistol shrimp can create heat greater than the sun? WTF.

you quit life too ?

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: eits
haha "what the fuck?! snakes can fly?! i quit life."

They fly even better when they're on planes

 

[lokiju]

That Goblin shark was nuts.

 

[ManBearPig]

yeah, the pistol shrimps bubble gets heated to 5000k...thats nuts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_shrimp

and the goblin shark was so fucked up.