We can never take name calling someone a "shrimp" as an insult again. The pistol shrimp protected submarines during World War II, and they have taught water protectors to make electricity from water. Thirdly, they've provided the path through biomimicry to get medicines pass the blood brain barrier!
So, not only may their technology save a relative from brain cancer, but their example may prevent World War III by giving us another form of energy so we do not need fossil fuels any longer!
Here are notes from a radio podcast I heard tonight which bolsters info I've already written about.
The shrimp is very territorial and gets into snapping matches with each other. The powerful sound of the snap is not from the two sides of the claw shutting together. Scientists hypothesized that it was not the sound of their claws hitting together because there is a lubricating layer between the two claw halves, so it just doesn't make sense.
Turns out, the actual frequency strength of the snapping is like the power of a jet plane, so there's probably more than snapping going on here. In 1999 they pointed cameras to the shrimps, they took screws to their butts to keep them still and focused the camera right on the claw. Then they ticked them with a paint brush and the shrimp fired its claw.
When they looked at the footage of the moment right after it snapped, they saw that the area rightin front of the claw is really blurry. They saw a bubble in front of the claw.That bubble effect is causing the noise.
The water goes in between the claw and goes high speed at 60 MPH- behind the jet of water that shoots forward an empty space is created and it changes from liquid to gas. They have created all this space, and micro seconds later the ocean starts pushing the air molecules back together. The energy pressurized the water and the temp rises to 5000 degrees (the temp of the sun), and the gas inside the bubble turns to plasma, and the bubble implodes. A micro second later it creates a shockwave and stuns it's prey.
Now that is some miraculous physics as a result of the masterfully engineered pistol shrimp claw!
Submarines in WWII hid in groupings of pistol shrimp to win the war because the snapping sounds protected them from being found.
Can you use this to power the world? (I think so with the research and invention of Dr. Richard Aho and the Cavitation Reactor.
Researchers became very interested in this. There is enough energy in this glass of water to power the city of Chicago for weeks through Sonolumination.
As if saving the US submarines from being found in WWII and biomimicry of the cavitation claws for energy production isn't enough, there is one more thing researchers are thinking about using this in a way to save lives! So, Michelle Burchlouse, says.
Everything is cool about this shrimp! The bubbles are small enough that this knowledge can be used in the body because these bubbles are about 1/20th the size of human hair.
In Toronto on a patient, they're using bubbles to get across the blood brain barrier. A team in Toronto is using the tech to push 1,024 units of ( --? What is ultrasound measured in? I missed that word) So, with an ultrasound transducer, paired with an IV in your arm to get Médicine in your bloodstream, you can open up a tiny inlet through the blood rain barrier by putting bubbles into the right area to make a doorway thru the BBB. Knowing that every 24 seconds the blood is carrying the proper medicine thru the entire body.
You can get Médicine past the blood brain barrier where the untrasound waves are going in the brain at a really specific part as small as 1x1mm 2. The ultrasonic vibrations causes the specific spot to loosen by letting bubbles thru and you can get chemotherapy or other medicine in your bloodstream right through the blood brain barrier in the body.
Then after 6-12 hours the body heals itself. Hence, you're able to open passageways to the brain that have never been able to do that before! Yes to the wisdom and physics of bubbles and learning from this shrimp- wow!
The podcast was Produced by
Molly and Andy Mchuen-
I took these note and added that Richard Aho invented the Cavitation Reactor because it was already something I study. What an exciting night to find out about the submarine saviors and the blood brain medical advancements because of the study of these miraculous creatures!