Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for August 20, 2015
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Transcript:
Mommy, what is the fastest animal? Normal person: The cheetah. Biologist: A descending peregrine falcon. Engineer: Human being in an orbiting satellite. Physicist: unspecified reference frame. Question invalid.
The mantis shrimp can move its claws so fast it produces cavitation bubbles; if the blow from its claws don’t kill its prey, the resulting shockwave from the collapse of the cavitation bubbles likely will.