Blogging the Field of Rheology
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Comic Strip of the Moment
Back in my sales days, I often used the example of Silly Putty to explain the phenomenon of viscoelasticity. Most people I met had played with the toy at least once, but they didn't remember the mechanical properties. Everyone remembered the ability of the putty to transfer ink off a newspaper. As this selection from the comic strip One Big Happy shows, something will be lost when people don't read comics in newspapers anymore.
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I'm finding Silly Putty itself is getting harder and harder to find all the time. They need to introduce a "Tron" version or get some good product placement, maybe get Justin Bieber to sing a song about it.
ReplyDeleteI think I recall MacGuyver using it to save a nuclear reactor that was in meltdown mode, but that's too long ago for this generation of kids.