{"id":11874,"date":"2012-06-13T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11874"},"modified":"2012-06-13T03:00:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T08:00:24","slug":"float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-mantis-shrimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11874","title":{"rendered":"Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Mantis Shrimp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2012\/06\/07\/how-mantis-shrimps-deliver-armour-shattering-punches-without-breaking-their-fists\/\">How mantis shrimps deliver armour-shattering punches without breaking their fists<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The smashers deliver the fastest punch of any animal. As the club unfurls, its acceleration is 10,000 times greater than gravity. Moving <em>through water<\/em>, it reaches a top speed of 50 miles per hour. It creates a pressure wave that boils the water in front of it, creating flashes of light (shrimpoluminescene \u2013 no, really) and immensely destructive bubbles. The club reaches its target in just three thousandths of a second, and strikes with the force of a rifle bullet. Against such punches, even the best armour eventually fails.<br \/>\nBut the mantis shrimp\u2019s club doesn\u2019t fail. It can deliver blow after punishing blow, breaking apart its prey without breaking apart itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How mantis shrimps deliver armour-shattering punches without breaking their fists The smashers deliver the fastest punch of any animal. As the club unfurls, its acceleration is 10,000 times greater than gravity. Moving through water, it reaches a top speed of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11874\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}