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c0ldfuse: Jun 18, 2004; The pursuit of excellence.

Renfield posted:

Custard is a non-Newtonian fluid, so that wouldn't end well

Professor of mine back at Uni did an experiment you'd like to read:

Nature Article: http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040920/full/news040920-2.html

quote:

It's a question that has taxed generations of the finest minds in physics: do humans swim slower in syrup than in water? And since you ask, the answer's no. Scientists have filled a swimming pool with a syrupy mixture and proved it.

"What appealed was the bizarreness of the idea," says Edward Cussler of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, who led the experiment. It's a question that also fascinated his student Brian Gettelfinger, a competitive swimmer who narrowly missed out on a place at this summer's Olympic Games in Athens.

�The fluid looked like snot. I don't know how to describe it any more poetically.�

Cussler and Gettelfinger took more than 300 kilograms of guar gum, an edible thickening agent found in salad dressings, ice cream and shampoo, and dumped it into a 25-metre swimming pool, creating a gloopy liquid twice as thick as water. "It looked like snot," says Cussler.

The pair then asked 16 volunteers, a mix of both competitive and recreational swimmers, to swim in a regular pool and in the guar syrup. Whatever strokes they used, the swimmers' times differed by no more than 4%, with neither water nor syrup producing consistently faster times, the researchers report in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal1.

Actual Paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aic.10389/abstract

Photos: http://research.cems.umn.edu/cussler/pool/

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StickFigs: Sep 5, 2004; "It's time to choose."

c0ldfuse posted:

Professor of mine back at Uni did an experiment you'd like to read:

Nature Article: http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040920/full/news040920-2.html

Actual Paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aic.10389/abstract

Photos: http://research.cems.umn.edu/cussler/pool/

Doesn't sound like a good analog for syrup imo, doesnt sound like its sticky just viscous.

# ? Oct 28, 2015 17:53

VendaGoat: Nov 1, 2005

StickFigs posted:

Doesn't sound like a good analog for syrup imo, doesnt sound like its sticky just viscous.

A big Yummy Pool of SNOT!

# ? Oct 28, 2015 17:55

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

StickFigs posted:

Doesn't sound like a good analog for syrup imo, doesnt sound like its sticky just viscous.

Stickiness wouldn't matter until you got out of the pool and it started to dry or you came into contact with objects not covered in it.

# ? Oct 28, 2015 18:07

GotLag: Jul 17, 2005; 食べちゃダメだよ

I'm curious as to how they emptied it out of the pool afterwards.

# ? Oct 28, 2015 18:09

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

GotLag posted:

I'm curious as to how they emptied it out of the pool afterwards.

going out on a limb here but they may have used chemicals to make syrup less viscous or to break it up completely

# ? Oct 28, 2015 18:29

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

hrvat posted:

Yeah. If you're inside when it turns turtle you're very likely to never come out.

Doesn't happen only in China, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Rocknes_(2001)

Picture linked since 18 people died: http://i.imgur.com/6AQVhsY.png

We were just talking about another fatal capsizing incident in the Unnerving Article thread: the M/S Estonia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w84HrH9tgLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3nYQ65kulY

The sinking took less than an hour from the first sign of trouble, and claimed 852 lives.

# ? Oct 28, 2015 18:41

Dillbag: Mar 4, 2007; Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces; Nap Ghost

Blistex posted:

The number of Chinese people who can actually swim (even when employed as sailors/fishermen) are startlingly low as well.

its because our bones are denser like black peoples' bones

# ? Oct 28, 2015 18:54

Helios Grime: Jan 27, 2012; Where we are going we won't need shirts; Pillbug

GotLag posted:

I'm curious as to how they emptied it out of the pool afterwards.

c0ldfuse posted:

Cussler and Gettelfinger took more than 300 kilograms of guar gum, an edible thickening agent found in salad dressings, ice cream and shampoo, and dumped it into a 25-metre swimming pool, creating a gloopy liquid twice as thick as water. "It looked like snot," says Cussler.

# ? Oct 28, 2015 19:52

tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

Dillbag posted:

its because our bones are denser like black peoples' bones

The Chinaman's bone density is not the issue, dude.

# ? Oct 28, 2015 20:43

Arrath: Apr 14, 2011

I'd really rather not go swimming in those polluted as gently caress rivers either, so I can't blame them.

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Hooded Reptile: Aug 31, 2015

Free energy

:haw:

# ? Oct 28, 2015 23:29

VendaGoat: Nov 1, 2005

Hooded Reptile posted:

Free energy

This is exhibit A isn't it?

# ? Oct 28, 2015 23:45

Xir: Jul 31, 2007; I smell fan fiction...

That strikes me as a good example of that dangerous combination of some knowledge and not enough respect for risk.

# ? Oct 29, 2015 00:04

Cumslut1895: Feb 18, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

Hooded Reptile posted:

Free energy

Clever electricity thieves put giant flat coils under transmission lines to couple with them

# ? Oct 29, 2015 07:42

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

Hooded Reptile posted:

Free energy

Isn't that a communication line and not a hydro line? At least that's what it looks like to me

# ? Oct 29, 2015 10:37

IndianaZoidberg: Aug 21, 2011; My name isnt slick, its Zoidberg. JOHN F***ING ZOIDBERG!

Hot Karl Marx posted:

Isn't that a communication line and not a hydro line? At least that's what it looks like to me

Well if it is and it's just a telecom ground, it's still super lovely.

# ? Oct 29, 2015 12:08

Sentient Data: Aug 31, 2011; My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

A new generation preparing for this thread: news article about someone who shunned ppe to get the job done quicker, basically every comment just being about having big balls

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3qots1/til_in_2009_a_bomb_disposal_officer_saved_a_group/

Yeah yeah, context, but it still made me think of this thread since it's the same line of thought nearly every degloved millworker uses

# ? Oct 29, 2015 15:01

Proteus Jones: Feb 28, 2013

Sentient Data posted:

A new generation preparing for this thread: news article about someone who shunned ppe to get the job done quicker, basically every comment just being about having big balls

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3qots1/til_in_2009_a_bomb_disposal_officer_saved_a_group/

Yeah yeah, context, but it still made me think of this thread since it's the same line of thought nearly every degloved millworker uses

It's not just context. It's a completely different situation at a fundamental level.

# ? Oct 29, 2015 23:13

chitoryu12: Apr 24, 2014

flosofl posted:

It's not just context. It's a completely different situation at a fundamental level.

I dunno, do you think the M4A1 is has OSHA-approved ergonomics?

# ? Oct 29, 2015 23:19

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Ow. gently caress.

:nws:

http://i.imgur.com/9WuqsJy.jpg :nws:

Somebody fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Nov 2, 2015

# ? Oct 29, 2015 23:49

Professor of Cats: Mar 22, 2009

Say Nothing posted:

Ow. gently caress.

His leg..

Ew his other leg...

HIS loving HAND

# ? Oct 30, 2015 03:26

Slanderer: May 6, 2007

Say Nothing posted:

Ow. gently caress.

http://ehssafetynewsamerica.com/2015/07/11/safety-photo-of-the-year-why-lock-out-tag-out-is-vitally-important-2/

# ? Oct 30, 2015 03:52

Kramjacks: Jul 5, 2007

Professor of Cats posted:

His leg..

Ew his other leg...

HIS loving HAND

I think his hand is just dirty.

# ? Oct 30, 2015 09:40

Three-Phase: Aug 5, 2006; by zen death robot

IndianaZoidberg posted:

Well if it is and it's just a telecom ground, it's still super lovely.

Hard for me to tell, I can't see if that that's a metal foil shield for telecom, or if it's an aluminum or tinned copper conductor for power.

Electrical tidbit - many overhead power lines (medium voltage) are not insulated, but some are. One drawback has to do with the fact that an arc between conductors will move on an uninsulated wire, but may tend to stay in one place on an insulated wire, which can result in wire "burn down" in an arcing fault.

# ? Oct 30, 2015 22:48

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-QNAwUdHUQ

# ? Nov 3, 2015 08:55

Three-Phase: Aug 5, 2006; by zen death robot

From Reddit's r/OSHA

http://gfycat.com/UntidyVigilantBernesemountaindog

Step 1: Open handhole
Step 2: Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope
Step 3: Close handhole
Step 4: Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope

# ? Nov 4, 2015 00:47

Edmund Sparkler: Jul 4, 2003; For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

Guy videos a military convoy, one of the trucks pulls over, ostensibly to tell him he can't record. Then one of the other trucks in the convoy rear ends the trailer they're escorting.

No harm done but it's still funny as hell.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=002_1446585375

# ? Nov 4, 2015 02:31

Ambrose Burnside: Aug 30, 2007; pensive

Say Nothing posted:

Ow. gently caress.

youd think after the 500th time of you posting graphic injury/death porn in this thread and people telling you to gently caress off youd learn to not do that thing as a matter of course, and yet,

# ? Nov 4, 2015 03:16

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

FIRST TIME posted:

Guy videos a military convoy, one of the trucks pulls over, ostensibly to tell him he can't record. Then one of the other trucks in the convoy rear ends the trailer they're escorting.

No harm done but it's still funny as hell.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=002_1446585375

Hardest I laughed all day.

I had to watch it twice, because I thought he missed whatever he was filming. I thought the first cop got re-ended. Turns out, its much funnier.

# ? Nov 4, 2015 03:21

VendaGoat: Nov 1, 2005

KoRMaK posted:

Hardest I laughed all day.

I had to watch it twice, because I thought he missed whatever he was filming. I thought the first cop got re-ended. Turns out, its much funnier.

Having been stuck behind one of these loving convoys, through the black loving hills into Denver. AHAHHAHHAHA gently caress them all.

# ? Nov 4, 2015 03:50

Edmund Sparkler: Jul 4, 2003; For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

The only time I've see one in real life was up by Walla Walla, WA in the middle of the night. Supposedly, night convoys are rare because of all the red tape so I wonder what it was all about. My best guess is that it might have had something to do with Hanford or Umatilla.

# ? Nov 4, 2015 03:56