Why can’t we develop shoes that allow us to walk across water like a Basilisk lizard?

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Why can’t we develop shoes that allow us to walk across water like a Basilisk lizard?

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Answer 1

Basilisk don’t walk on water, they run. So as said by others here, you’d have to create hydrophobic shoes with a very large sole to sustain your weight and still be able to run like crazy with those. It’s water surface tension that would keep you afloat in this case. Pretty unpractical.