User talk:Thorazyne

Mantis Shrimp @Wikipedia.com
Please note: This is my first post to User Talk please excuse any mistakes in content, formatting, layout & etc. I understand if these details are not quite clear to the editors.

Dear Wikipedia, I use/rely on Wikipedia as my 'Font For All Knowledge' and appreciate the great value of the organisation provides for humanity (et al).

My query: I subscribe to Destin Sandlin's great Youtube site 'Smarter Every Day'

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6107grRI4m0o2-emgoDnAA

I had just watched a new video he'd posted on Youtube about his visit to the ISS Mock-Up at NASA (worth a watch)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY1jYYhpGJM

After watching the awesome ISS clip I had a wander around some other clips when I stumbled upon his video about Mantis Shrimp (With some slo-mo filmed by Smarter Every Day at/with James Cook Uni. Australia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXrxCT0NpHo

The clip reveals intricate details (Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard) about the very sophisticated construction of the animal's claws (clubs) and the way the Chitin is arranged in layers of differing densities and directions to provide the massive strength required to support their function.

There are additional details in the clip about the 'Hyperbolic Paraboloid' employed in the shrimps 'elbows'. It is thought that this allows the animal to 'punch' much faster than mere muscle effort can possibly achieve.

( Wiki's article on Hyperbolic Paraboloid:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraboloid   )

I then 'checked out' the Wikipedia article for Mantis Shrimp for more information and found that there is no mention of some of these amazing facts 'yet'.

Would any of this be information be useful if added to or linked to Wikipedia's 'already' comprehensive article?

I think these sort of Youtube sites are what the Internet is 'really' intended for and provides much more useful content/viewing than anyone's facebook page(My browser doesn't even accept Facebook as a proper word).

If not applicable/useful then please ignore my impertinence.

Best regards,

Thorazyne

Thorazyne (talk) 10:48, 11 September 2015 (UTC)