Recipe for Making Symetrical Holes in Water

scottZed writes "Danish researchers found a simple way to make curiously shaped air holes in a bucket of water. Simply rig the bucket to have a spinning plate at the bottom, and depending on the speed, you can get an ellipse, three-sided star, square, pentagon, or hexagon. The effect may help explain such shapes seen in atmospheric disturbances on Earth and other planets. One practical use: really trippy washing machines."

Comments

Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Aliens obviously use the plate to transmit geometrical patterns in an effort to contact us. This proves it beyond all doubt.

Re:Interesting

[jginspace]

Aliens obviously use the plate to transmit geometrical patterns in an effort to contact us.

I doubt they'd resort to those means. I'm sure they know that Skype has just introduced free calls to land lines and mobiles in the US and Canada until the end of the year: http://www.skype.com/company/news/2006/skype_freec alling.html

TFSummary says "Three-sided star..."

[Khyber]

I say "Triangle"

Practical

[suv4x4]

One practical use: really trippy washing machines

practical

adj 1: concerned with actual use or practice; 2: guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; 3: being actually such in almost every respect; 4: having or put to a practical purpose or use;

Pedantic

[Anonymous Coward]

pedantic

adj 1: Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning; 2: Being showy of one's knowledge, often in a boring manner; 3: Often used to describe a person who emphasizes their knowledge through the use of vocabulary; 4: Being finicky or picky with language.

Re:Pedantic

[suv4x4]

pedantic

adj 1: Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning; 2: Being showy of one's knowledge, often in a boring manner; 3: Often used to describe a person who emphasizes their knowledge through the use of vocabulary; 4: Being finicky or picky with language.

joke: n. 1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line. 2. A mischievous trick; a prank. 3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.

Re:Wow

[fish waffle]

seriously, what if in the ocean the waterflow is spinning very hard itself under certain conditions, wouldn't that be a possible explanation for the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle?

Yes, that's right. A suitably airplane-shaped hole would indeed allow an airplane to fall to the bottom of the ocean without getting wet, nicely and logically accounting for its sudden and complete disappearance. Similarly, holes isomorphic to boats and drowning people would account for those inexplicable losses.

Oh, wait, Bermuda triangle---you probably meant a triangular hole. No, sorry, that's just stupid.

Re:Just a resonance?

[binarybum]

yes and don't forget that Ima Bohr, Whadda Bohr, and Yura Bohr all founded the Institute of Neutrino Generation - Commonly referred to as Bohr-ING.