Have you also tried joining
lots of drinking straws together with a rubber band, dipping all the ends in and blowing through to get loads of little bubbles?
The thorny devil's skin is covered in microscopic grooves between their overlapping scales, creating a
network of drinking straws.
DARPA said the SST has moved space situational awareness from seeing only a few large objects at a time through the
equivalent of a drinking straw, to a «windshield» view with 10,000 objects at a time, each as small as a softball.
McCarthy further explores the potential for spatial and aesthetic transformation through arrangement and rearrangement in Head / Broken Head, 2011, a gathering of ink and pencil diptychs that show a head, outlined by
drawings of drinking straws in the first frame, which are then broken apart in the second to create abstract spatial shapes.
I'm not a
fan of drinking straws, and can't actually remember the last time I opted to use one, but when you have kids, you do all sorts of things you never thought you would, and straws are now a part of our daily life because my children love to use them.
It's approximately 4 inches long and the
width of a drinking straw, and it pops out of the bottom of the tablet with the help of a fingernail, allowing for easy selection and writing.