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Scientists Make Water Run Uphill

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the flee-little-droplets-flee dept.

redshadow01 writes to mention a BBC story about scientists flouting the laws of physics for fun, and profit. From the article: "The US scientists did the experiment to demonstrate how the random motion of water molecules in hot steam could be channelled into a directed force. But the team, writing in Physical Review Letters, believes the effect may be useful in driving coolants through overheating computer microchips."

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  1. "scientists...for fun and profit" by Adolf+Hitroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only in America will scientist be motivated by something else than the humanity's sake...
    A small step for me... a giant bump on the stock exchange charts...

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  2. Riven? by magefile · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So ... now Riven is fair game for LARPers?

  3. Re:For fun and for .. by Bretai · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flouting, not flaunting. I don't expect the submitter or the editor to get it, but the commenters should.

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  4. You inSens1tive clod! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    for mem3ership. *BSD is dead.

  5. Flouting the rules of English by The+Monster · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Those to stupid to know that publicly flaunting their ignorance is not clever are obviously incapable of being educated.
    As a fellow Grammar Nazi, I share your pain. That's what makes this so painful. By your own words, I can't educate you, so I'll just have to ask you to re-read this sentence. See if you can spot the obvious error you committed. You use a certain word two times, but the proper usage would have been to use one spelling in one place, and another spelling too.

    Watt wood-eyed dew width aught mine ice bell Czech her?

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