The most sophisticated toy out there.
Do they even make these any more? It sounds like the blue liquid is toxic compared to kids toy standards.

Raptor-riding Jesus is not amused by this devil-toy which clearly works on dark magicks.

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They do still make them...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/981b/

Of course they still make them! Who do you think runs the world's nuclear power?

How do you think Chernobyl/Three Mile Island happened?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloromethane

It doesnt sound too nice. I had a similar toy when I was young my parents had bought me that you held the base and the liquid would go through a spiral in the glass and bubble into the top. If you let it sit it would operate in reverse.

I'm pretty sure one of these little guys will be involved in the mechanics for traveling at the speed of light.

tell me again why its not producing energy? ie why it can't be hella big and made into a generator

im not arguing for the possibility - the concept just eludes my tiny brain

from thinkgeek
"Temperature differentials drive the motor. That energy comes from the environment - from the sun."

if we covered texas in these, could we solve the energy crisis?

I've always wanted one of these.

>> ^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.

i forgot about solar panels
i say we do it

Woo! For Irish physicists ;-)

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.

Dude, I SO dare you to drink the blue kool-aid in them!

*learn

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