From fork-admin@xent.com Thu Sep 5 11:30:33 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E88116F7A for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:28:27 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:28:27 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g84MJ5Z21570 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 23:19:05 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9926D2942CC; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from dream.darwin.nasa.gov (betlik.darwin.nasa.gov [198.123.160.11]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 679302942CA for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cse.ucsc.edu (paperweight.darwin.nasa.gov [198.123.160.27]) by dream.darwin.nasa.gov ( -- Info omitted by ASANI Solutions, LLC.) with ESMTP id g84MHeh28258; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 15:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3D768684.30702@cse.ucsc.edu> From: Elias Sinderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020518 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Whitehead Cc: FoRK Subject: Re: Gecko adhesion finally sussed. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 15:17:40 -0700 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.6 required=7.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,FORGED_RCVD_TRAIL,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST, REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: Jim Whitehead wrote: >Great, this is half of what I'd need to become Spider Man! Now all I need to >figure out is how to do that spider web shooting thing. > Heheheh... So becomming a university professor was your second career choice? ;-) Seriously though (or not, as the case may be), The Amazing Spiderman had many other abilities to help him out. Most notable, perhaps, was his 'spidey strength' and 'spidey senses'. The strength to weight ratio of a spider is so high that Spiderman is able to throw a bus several city blocks with little effort. His endurance is similarly enhanced as well. As for the spidey senses, well they're really great, but AFAIK not really well explained in the comic series. Spiders have multiple eyes, ears, noses and tongues which Peter Parker did not visibly have. There have been a few attempts to explain his heightened reflexes, from the biological to hidden methamphetamine use, but none seem to do the spidey sense justice... I seem to recall Spiderman being able to detect the presence of well concealed weapons and even sense evil-doers while they were in their street clothes. Perhaps the spidey senses are the result of some sort of quantum entanglement? Elias