Comments on: Floating Water Bridge

By: bigM

bigM — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:21:47 +0000

P.S.- Hey Video Game Dork, though it might interest you to know, as I discovered by accident in the lab today, solid phase cyclohexane is also less dense than liquid phase cyclohexane. Its crystals floated as I thawed a large sample. I would guess that other similar cyclic compounds might behave similarly (e.g.- cylcopentane, cycloheptane…).

gtron- still lol.

By: bigM

bigM — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:14:20 +0000

applications– maybe a new method of water purification? At least in terms of heavy impurities. It could reduce filter reliance, and maybe simplify chemical separation techniques generally.

gtron- it appears you are hydrophobic. nyuk nyuk

By: gtron

gtron — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:07:32 +0000

not angry at me, per se, and not angry, as such.
you have to sort of loosen your rational thinking

By: GQ

GQ — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:36:47 +0000

Any practical applications for this?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:09:35 +0000

Phenomenon. I knew that. Fixed now, thanks!

By: N. Tesla

N. Tesla — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:27:53 +0000

… Why is this nfkecu surprising?

Are we that technically and scientifically challenged.

This is pure base, as in basic and fundamental.

Duh!

P.s. – We are pushing (U.S.A.) the’illiterate’.

By: Video Game Dork

Video Game Dork — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:09:31 +0000

Water is an amazing substance. Its one of the few things that is less dense as a solid than as a liquid (which, in the physics world, is pretty cool). and it bonds with almost anything (which is why it’s so good at cleaning things).

However, if you think water may be angry at you… well… I just don’t know what to say about that.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:03:44 +0000

A phenomena?

By: gtron

gtron — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:47:07 +0000

“Why water would act this way was a surprise”
I live in the North Atlantic sea, in Newfoundland, and I have had the opportunity over the past few years to work on a film/art/new media project (in development) which demands that the characters, especially mine, spend a lot of time on the very edge of the sea – often on rocky over hangs and rough ledges during moderately high seas (just so you know, I wouldn’t go out if it weren’t safe-ish, but it’s not really nasty – you gotta have some crashing waves to get a good shot). anyway, there have been numerous times wherein I ‘felt’ the presence of the sea having more than a passive inorganic existence. I ‘felt’ like it was interested in getting me, I anticipated it’s ‘motives’ to change its swelling and lashing out, and as I avoided getting pulled in while getting close to the edge, I felt it swelling up on the other side of me – it wasn’t random waves, I was ‘being pursued’ – and around here, several people a year go a little too close, and wash up about 3 weeks later… and I am neither a kook nor do I believe that I’ve been abducted by aliens. Water is alive, just on a different conceptual level than we grasp. I believe its pissed at us humans – as we are constantly attacking it. What about that Texas-sized island of plastic in the middle of the Pacific?!
oh, and for the record, we’re missing a huge opportunity in not harvesting the glacier ice floating by here as the pole melts. Free 10000 year old pristine water, melting into the Gulf stream. Mmm – I’m goig to go get some and toss it in my drink.