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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."

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  1. Computing Speed? by coop535 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But... how will this increase computing speed? Surely some scientist can make something up. Think of the children growing up right now with 3.2ghz dual cores!

  2. Re:Pedantic by supercrisp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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