Feel like they'd been better off putting down a little water or food - petting it likely just scares it more. Not to discount the good they did here, just saying'

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yes, the slow pull down into the water because of the rope almost made it worse. thankfully he got loose of the kayak.

Well, you see, he goes birling down a-down the white water...

From a yt commenter;

"it's the type used, it's not set or hardened yet, they put the layer down then add water, it sucks it up like a sponge, then you let it sit to harden and cure"

I imagine it's a result of various forces and circumstances (I don't think it's a coincidence that the droplets were soapy water which would increase it's surface tension/bubble strength).

Also keep in mind that a droplets surface would be a mesh of the outermost water molecules held together by their polar attraction. As the sphere bounces and moves its surface would have mini waves and ripples along it that would push against and then move away from the molecules on the water surface below it as the kinetic and polar forces acted.

If you imagine that every sphere of water had portions of its surface moving away from the water surface below and then oscillating back towards the surface while the molecules on the spheres surface that had been touching the water surface below would begin to oscillate back into the sphere.

This would create many points of contact oscillating against and away from the water surface below and thus there might not be enough contact/pressure between the 2 surfaces for it to coalesce at any given time. Imagine bugs whose feet are tiny enough for them to "stand" on water due to surface tension and the principle would be the same. It'd be like an infinite number of these bugs legs jumping up and down on the water at a microscopic level.

Also I'm not familiar enough with how water molecules align themselves while at the surface of something so perhaps the alignment of their atoms helps as well?

Thats all a guess though I'm sure you could google the real answer.

at :30 they look at each other, then down at the water -- nice cartoon timing

I am in brainstorming mode. *audio with a backsplash of Soundsift.

The technicals will be worked out at work tomorrow while I stare down a 6" water well timing the drop rate for an hour, and then the recovery for an hour.

Comedy sifts
music sifts
speech sifts
first recordings of speech sifts

ALL have to be taken into account for the description. I am not in a hurry, when I build a House I build it out of bricks.

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Go ahead and create the audiosift channel and I'll make it live.

I had a great High School Chemistry teacher.

One day we were having a lesson about butane, so we had a bunch of lighters that were missing their sparker rolls. We filled test tubes with butane by putting a test tube under water and pressing the gas release button on a lighter, then having the released bubbles of butane displace the water in the tube (held upside down in the water).

Once the test tube was filled with the gas, we would put a hand in the water and cap the tube with a thumb, then take it out of the water.

Our teacher said that butane was heavier than air, so we could light small pockets of butane by holding the tubes right-side up (thumb covering the opening at the top), taking our thumbs off of the top and dropping the test tube about an inch or so to make some turbulence and release some of the gas before re-capping it with our thumbs, and then having our lab partner quickly strike a sparker in the area just above the tube.

That worked great -- you get small bursts of the butane burning / exploding, but after several of the pops the butane at the top of the tube has been replaced by air and you have to give the tube a more severe drop/shake to get more butane out. We did that for a while until we stopped getting reactions.

At that point, I figured that there was probably a little more butane left in the tube at the very bottom. So, I told my lab partner that I was going to hold the tube upside down at a bit of an angle so the remaining heavy butane could run out of it, remove my thumb, and then he could spark the area at the end of the tube.

We got set, I took my thumb off the tube's mouth, and about a second later my lab partner hit the spark. Instead of the small fist-sized flashes we had been getting with the other technique, there was a huge burst like the one in this video, accompanied by a pretty loud thump. My lab partner and I had pretty much frozen in space with shock, although neither of us was injured at all except for some singed hair on my hand. Everyone else in the room spun around to see what had happened and went dead quiet.

My teacher said: "Somebody tries that one every year" and grinned.

The phone/balloon are held aloft by the atmosphere. The shuttle is doing orbital velocity and re-entering the atmosphere. The shutle's moving a lot further and faster. It's like the difference in energy between skipping a stone across a pond, or placing the stone gently on the surface of the water (actually a couple inches down in the water), and letting go.

>> ^BoneRemake:

So my major thought just now was the atmosphere..
although I will go and learn for myself, right now I wonder why they did not need head shields or anything like that.
Just where oh where does the atmosphere begin exactly/end exactly, Why does a space craft from NASA need some ceramic plating while this lil doodad needed naught but shaved expanding foam.
on a side note, I think it would of made the video better if in every frame that is shown whilst someone was in frame, they would of held a hot dog in a bun.
eta- "The atmosphere has a mass of about 5 × 1018 kg, three quarters of which is within about 11 km (6.8 mi; 36,000 ft) of the surface. The atmosphere becomes thinner and thinner with increasing altitude, with no definite boundary between the atmosphere and outer space. An altitude of 120 km (75 mi) is where atmospheric effects become noticeable during atmospheric reentry of spacecraft. -wiki "

the only fake thing about this is that they did multiple takes yet the film implies through editing that its all done in one go obvously artistic lisense as it wouldnt realy flow if he cept going up and down.

as for water pressure and people going deep and coming up fast , its only a big issue when you are using compressed air or are going really realy deep.



>> ^Chinspinigcra:

Surely you have heard the phrase "fake hollywood action crap" that is often applied to things like never reloading a gun or jumping a car off of a fruit stand. You know the part of this video where the guy dives all the way down a 202m deep hole without stopping and comes back without oxygen? It was faked, staged, fictional, false etc.

Saying that some people can't swim is amazingly cruel. The only people who are ever incapable of swimming are the paralyzed or immobilized, and most partially paralyzed folk can still swim. I hope you find a better way to use the word "can't". I am not going to say that you can't!

Well, that makes more since then. Those scores were to terrible to believe. Thanks for digging that up Brian. The article was well written as well, not trying to oversell the schools are well and dandy, schooling is still a problem, just not the moronic hopeless kind of problem that would be sold by those stat. As one who works in the polling business, never believe polls...ever...ever, make sure you have enough ever's memorized. Stats gained through studies or such are okish, but when someone calls someone else and polls them, there is so much room for abuse and question wording, not to mention call attendant disposition; the numbers only speak for themselves, not the questions they would pretend to represent.

Ironically, polls usually swing a bit more left from the phone attendant perspective. Most polling is conducted by the poorest and most hopeless of people. When there is a poll that has a more rightish slant to it, the phone attendants work a bear minimum to accomplish a complete call. It is an understood problem and usually weighted against when people want to make since of their data. Polling shouldn't be used as a definitive alarm for anything, it is more like looking down into murky water and guessing how deep it is, useful for establishing certain pretenses but not good enough for other wide sweeping things.

Excerpt of Bryan's never-delivered closing argument...

Outmaneuvered by Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan never got to deliver his closing argument in the Scopes trial. But soon after the trial -- and Bryan's subsequent death -- the entire text of Bryan's 15,000-word argument was published as Bryan's last speech. Here are a few excerpts:

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo. In war, science has proven itself an evil genius; it has made war more terrible than it ever was before. Man used to be content to slaughter his fellowmen on a single plane -- the earth's surface. Science has taught him to go down into the water and shoot up from below and to go up into the clouds and shoot down from above, thus making the battlefield three times a bloody as it was before; but science does not teach brotherly love. Science has made war so hellish that civilization was about to commit suicide; and now we are told that newly discovered instruments of destruction will make the cruelties of the late war seem trivial in comparison with the cruelties of wars that may come in the future. If civilization is to be saved from the wreckage threatened by intelligence not consecrated by love, it must be saved by the moral code of the meek and lowly Nazarene....

It is for the jury to determine whether this attack upon the Christian religion shall be permitted in the public schools of Tennessee by teachers employed by the state and paid out of the public treasury. This case is no longer local, the defendant ceases to play an important part. The case has assumed the proportions of a battle-royal between unbelief that attempts to speak through so-called science and the defenders of the Christian faith, speaking through the legislators of Tennessee. It is again a choice between God and Baal; it is also a renewal of the issue in Pilate's court....

...Your answer will be heard throughout the world; it is eagerly awaited by a praying multitude. If the law is nullified, there will be rejoicing wherever God is repudiated, the savior scoffed at and the Bible ridiculed. Every unbeliever of every kind and degree will be happy. If, on the other hand, the law is upheld and the religion of the school children protected, millions of Christians will call you blessed and, with hearts full of gratitude to God, will sing again that grand old song of triumph: "Faith of our fathers, living still, In spite of dungeon, fire and sword; O how our hearts beat high with joy, Whene'er we hear that glorious word -- Faith of our fathers -- Holy faith; We will be true to thee till death!

Excerpts from Bryan, William Jennings. Bryan's Last Speech: Undelivered Speech to the Jury in the Scopes Trial. Oklahoma City: Sunlight Publishing Society, 1925.

I'm sure it bends like that on design, like sky scrapers in a strong wind. But quite amazing to see in action. The last bit where the ship went up onto the wake and then crashed down and the water nearly rose as high as the deck, amazing.