Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2f.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hou2f!tino From: tino@hou2f.UUCP (A.TINO) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: HELP! Real life physics problem Message-ID: <585@hou2f.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 09:34:24 EST Article-I.D.: hou2f.585 Posted: Tue Nov 5 09:34:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 04:10:04 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 12 >One of the racing shoe manufacturers (Nike, etc.) research >departments came up with a wonderful rubbery substance that >absorbs shock by redirecting it laterally. I saw this >demonstrated on one of the TV talk shows a year or two ago. >It looks like just the thing for your egg-dropping experiment >(a parachute would help, too). Unfortunately I can't remember >the name of the product or where to find it; perhaps someone >else on the net knows. --------------------------------------- Are you thinking of Shoe-Goo?