The difference is fucking obvious!

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Do you think a drinking bird toy is enjoying the water because it keeps "going back for more"?

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When I was in high school, my 11th grade science teacher challenged us for extra credit to explain how the drinking bird worked. My stepmother was a teacher at another school so she hooked me up with their science teachers. Three of them could not explain this toy. The closest they came was Boyle's law. I never got that extra credit, and no one else did either. Damn bird.

When I was in the 10th grade (1989), I was in a high school science class, and the professor had a drinking bird. He offered some form of extra credit if we could explain how it worked. I quickly went out and bought my own drinking bird, studied it, and had no freaking clue. So I pulled out some encyclopedias (remember those? yes kids, we used to have books of information), did some reading at the library, and 3 months later figured it had to have something to do with Boyle's Law.

I proposed my weakly formed solution completely missing out on the thermodynamics part, and never did get that extra credit.

If only I had google: Heat will not naturally flow from a body of lower temperature to one of higher. It will however, flow in the other direction. So what does all this have to do with our classic drinking bird? The answer: plenty. Couple this law of thermodynamics with Boyle’s law stating the inversely proportional relationship of temperature and pressure relating to volume and you can begin to understand how this magical little bird can seemingly bob up and down forever.

>> ^CaptainPlanet:
if we covered texas in these, could we solve the energy crisis?


I'm reasonably certain that solar panels would be massively more efficient, albeit not nearly as fun to watch.

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