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Mad Scientist Invents Colored Bubbles

Posted by Zonk on from the bubbles-make-the-heart-float dept.

Anonymous Custard writes "Popular Science has a fascinating article up about toy inventor Tim Kehoe's quest to create colored bubbles. 'Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars--it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. ... It turns out that coloring a bubble is an exceptionally difficult bit of chemistry.'"

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  1. In the words of a common forumer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  2. Coloring Bubbles by FreemanPatrickHenry · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I imagine it would be difficult. I haven't RTFAd, but I'd guess that you'd have to constrain the width of the film. That way you could presumably create interference effects and "color" it.

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  3. Re:Really? by CaptainCarrot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I prefer Absolut, but I suppose vanilla extract would do in a pinch.

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  4. Re:Giggling Geek by dcam · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Interesting.

    As someone who is about to get married, wife for me has the connotation that the union is permanent and public, before God, friends and family. I couldn't care less about the government. But I guess Christians are funny like that.

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  5. Re:Giggling Geek by dcam · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Couldn't care less about the government? Not gonna get your marriage license , then? I guess you don't care about the tax credits either, do you?

    Of course I'll get a marriage license, I just don't think it is important. And yes I pay my taxes, as appropriate to my situation whether married or not. I actually don't know what changes this will bring to my taxes. Also given that I don't live in the US, I think the arrangements might a little different.

    Marriage has been, since the dawn of the idea, a political, governmental, and social thing with little to nothing to do with God.

    At this point our views diverge sharply. See when I read Genesis 2, I see it as something that has been laid down by God since the dawn of time.

    But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [i] and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

      23 The man said,
                  "This is now bone of my bones
                  and flesh of my flesh;
                  she shall be called 'woman,'
                  for she was taken out of man."

      24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.


    As far as I am concerned, the government is just formalising something that already exists.

    What you are suggesting is not a good idea. I want to marry my fiance as a public statement that we are going to spend the rest of our lives together. I publicly announce this in a way that is appropriate in this society. If I say to anyone that she is my wife, there is an immediate understanding of what that means.

    Me, personally, I'm all about the tax credits and workplace promotions as a result of being married.

    I'm not sure how the promotions work. Are you suggesting that I get promoted because my wife is my boss or something? Given that she is training to be a primary school teacher and I am a programmer, I'm not sure how that works. Or are you suggesting that people who are married are more likely to get promoted? I don't think it works that way in this country.
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