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Water Flows Uphill
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC are reporting James Dyson's new garden feature, a waterfall with water flowing uphill. Apparently, he wanted to recreate an Escher drawing."
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It's a water elevator, or something.
Antiwater (two part antihydrogen and one part antioxygen) is repelled by the force of gravity.
(don't bother replying with a debunk of the "Coriolis force" - I already know)
Perhaps some sort of spinoff of Marcel Duchamp's 1917 work of "art".
Those crazy dadaists!
It's the only exercise my brain gets outside of /.
My sympathies, really...
No!!! IP laws are evil! They are outdated and wrong! There is no purpose to them other than giving the man a tool to keep his jackboot on my neck!
[Set Cain on fire and steal his lute.]
In other backwards news: Duke Nukem Forever will be released next month!!!
Escher makes my brain hurt. It's so obvious something is wrong, but it's impossible to focus on it. Argh, this makes me want to gouge out my eyes.
Indeed. It reminds me of a few companies I've worked for.
Dear Mr. Dyson, We, the FBI, have become aware of your projects. We understand that you have been reverse-engineering water, and this is in violation of the DMCA, PATRIOT, and PATRIOT II acts. You have been flagged for interrogation as a potential terrorist. Until you can be brought in, you are asked to cease all water reverse-engineering. Sincerely, Agent J. Mehoff
The story leaves out that after the reporters were done taking pictures for the day, he put the big glass bowl centerpiece back in the middle and he showed them what it was really built for. Its rumored that everyone lost thier lighter.
According to my supervisor, shit still does, in fact, flow down hill. Zep--
And for his next trick, maybe he could do a mini "hell freezing over".
Hey, then we'd all get laid! Quick, where's his phone number?
I guess they forgot to check for prior art... :)
So when will he build us that sphere thingy?
This, of course, causes its normal downhill motion under gravity to occur retrotemporally, giving the fluid the appearance of syntemporal uphill motion.
I know we're supposed to concentrate on the content, and not the form of comments. But you pulled of the rare feat of making 3 simple grammatical errors in that sentence. I suggest you order the book "1001 Tense Formations", by Dr. Dan Streetmentioner, from your favourite Internet book store, and re-fresh your grammar. Next time Read It Before You Post.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
Dude, you just helped me coin a new term:
Escher-esque Management.
Let's push it onto a few blogs and see if it doesn't end up in Wired next month.
It is official; BBC confirms: gravity is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered gravity community when IDC confirmed that gravity market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all garden shows. Coming on the heels of a recent BBC survey which plainly states that gravity has lost more garden market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. gravity is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Dyson comprehensive water test.
You don't need to be a Newton to predict gravity's future. The hand writing is on the wall: gravity faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all because gravity is dying. Things are looking very bad for gravity. Red ink flows like an uphill river of blood.
For his next trick....
Making the bubbles in a Guiness flow up!
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