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3/20    You can surely drive your SO wild if you can do this:
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/theworldsmostexplosivetongue
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news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/theworldsmostexplosivetongue
com Tue Mar 6, 11:40 AM ET The giant palm salamander of Central America shoots out its tongue with more instantaneous power than any known muscle in the animal kingdom, a new study finds. The salamander, Bolitoglossa dofleini, can shoot out its tongue with 18,000 watts of power per kilogram of muscle. This is nearly double the power output of the previous champ, the Colorado River toad Bufo alvarius. The researchers think that still unidentified elastic tissue attached to the salamander's tongue stores up energy in preparation for an explosive action. Deban likens the process to stretching and shooting a rubber band: the recoil occurs faster than the act of releasing a rubber band pulled taut. How the salamander achieves its record power output is still unclear. Tongue-launching systems in other animals require three components: a motor to generate energy, a spring to store the energy and a latch to control the timing of unloading of the spring. Scientists have so far identified only the motor in the salamander system. "What remains to be discovered are the anatomical structures that make up the spring and the latch," the researchers write in the Feb. com for more daily news, views and scientific inquiry with an original, provocative point of view. LiveScience reports amazing, real world breakthroughs, made simple and stimulating for people on the go.