"John Smith I" wrote in message
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Mike Kaliski wrote:


So you tie an antenna wire to a gecko and get it to run up the nearest
tall
object? :-)

Mike G0ULI

Yanno? Come to think of it, if they really do have a crashed alien
craft or two, and are reverse engineering 'em, you'd just have to expect
something like this to develop somewhere at sometime; wouldn't ya? grin

Regards,
JS

Nah, the old methods are the best.
1. Attach antenna wire to gecko.
2. Get your gecko to climb as high as needed.
3. Key up with a kilowatt.
4. Antenna is now secured with lossy carbon resistor for a lovely wide
bandwidth.
Simple.

Geckos have had sticky but dirt resistant feet for millennia. There was an
announcement over a year ago that some new plastic compound had been
developed to duplicate the effect. It all relies on the attraction between
closely spaced molecules. I guess someone needed to find a method of peeling
it off after it had stuck firmly. Applying an electromagnetic field in the
correct manner would break the atomic level attraction between the
materials. Don't know how the geckos do it though. Maybe they have a charge
generator like an electric eel?

Mike G0ULI