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Bang But No Splash
BishopBerkeley writes "When a drop of ethanol is dropped on a surface at low pressures (1/5 atmosphere or less), it makes no splash. Science offers a brief synopsis and fascinating pictures of the phenomenon. The results seem to confirm the (perhaps counterintuitive) prediction that more viscous liquids are more likely to splash, not less likely . Links to the researchers' home page at U of Chicago (as of now, the site is timing out) and pdf version of the article on arxiv can be found on the Science page also."
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Finally, conclusive evidence that time travel is possible!
Otherwise, we finally have the solution we have awaited! Only to look for difference when dropping a drop of alcohol in your low-pressure chamber you always carry at parties... Oh wait, we where not supposed to drink t...
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Conversely a drop of Bawls dropped on a surface at low pressures....well I guess it just splashes.
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nuff said
***or***
you shoot yourself but there's no exit wound.
(I'm sorry, *someone* had to do it)
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A nuclear bomb can be detonated by taking two lumps of metal and banging them together real fast. The romans could have done that, easily.
...a single projectile ..it was an unknown weapon, ..The corpses were so burned
...to escape from this fire
In the Deccan plain of India, we
find cities made of sun-dried bricks that are glassified on one side, and significantly radioactive.
I don't know if Gurkha in his vimana used intermittent wipers, but he seems to have witnessed
something similar to a nuclear device in its
energy release, as we read in the Mahabharata:
Charged with all the power of the Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame
As bright as the thousand suns
Rose in all its splendour...
An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
As to be unrecognisable.
The hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.
After a few hours
All foodstuffs were infected...
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment...
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Maybe it's just cheaper in the long run to buy a vaccuum-insulated stainless steel tank than it is to deal with bulky, deteriorating insulating products. I'll bet that the annular space and the ullage is also purged with nitrogen, if not being an actual vaccuum space.
Liquid oxygen, liquid nitrogen and liquid hydrogen is transported this way. You probably pass or see some of these tankers on the road every day.
Given no a priori knowledge of this experiment,
Took that Philosophy 101 class too, eh?
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?