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Snail slime – called an epiphragm
Wow, never knew that.
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Is this the same stuff that allows slugs to slide along the edge of a razor blade?
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“Please, my rabbit, she’s very sick”
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What in the seven hells is that?
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Would you believe- prior art exists:
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African Giant Snail
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I am trying to imagine someone being held up by a simple postage stamp sized area of anything other than a bolt into a ceiling.
Even a bolt into a ceiling would rip out under my weight if it was just drywall. This is actually pretty damn impressive.
What would be really life-changing is if somebody would create something like this for medical use because I still can’t, after three showers, get the tape residue from the ER IV tape off of my arm 
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And really, this research should have been done at UC- Santa Cruz:
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Use orange oil
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I will give that a try but I don’t have any around
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Dad worked as an electrician 35 years. We always have a pump bottle of Orange Goop under the sink.
Does a great job of dissolving blackened grease and filth off your hands before washing them in the sink. Will get off pretty much anything.
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Forgot I have a bottle of Gojo, which I keep for same purposes…
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Works similarly well, but I’m sure is less bio-friendly: WD40.
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[Off Topic] I once heard a snail eating.
I was having a backyard ciggy on a dead calm night in Western Australia. I heard the faintest rhythmic crunch and eventually tracked it down to a snail on a dry leaf.
To this day I don’t know what’s going on in a snail’s mouth but I’m a sound engineer and that rhythmic crunching was definitely coming from that snail on that leaf!
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