It’s called a sharpshooter, and it flicks piss very efficiently.
The glassy-winged sharpshooter is an insect so impressive when it pees it could inspire more efficient designs for water-resistant devices.
Simply put, superpropulsion allows an elastic object to fly at speeds faster than the thing launching it. Precise timing between the squishy object and its catapult gives the object an energy boost. To understand this phenomenon, think of an Olympic diver, Bhamla explains. A skilled diver might time a jump to get the maximum resonant energy from the springboard.
Once the droplet is at just the right size and shape, the flicker rotates backward another 15 degrees. Then it. The butt flicker is incredibly fast, accelerating more than 40Gs, which is 40 times faster than the acceleration of a sprinting cheetah. What’s more amazing is that the pee flies at an even higher speed than the butt flicker — the telltale marker of superpropulsion.
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