Though it obviously depends on factors like how dirty the floor you're dropping the food on is, what kind of bacteria, what kind of food is dropped and so forth. Not to mention that just "a floor" won't be a proper analogue for all floors out there, the only way to really simulate it is to create a floor with an even amount of bacteria spread over the surface.

Mythbusters did a test similar to the students but used an analogue and found out that it doesn't really matter if it sits one second, five seconds or longer (within reasonable time range) when it comes to bacteria pick-up.

quinnn, as far as I remember they got proof of concept with only one leafblower on a construction very similar to the one in the video. Then they did however make two hovercrafts, Adam made a big one powered by three leafblowers (which also had to lift his rather heavy construction) and Jamie a smaller surfboard one powered by two leafblowers (one for lift, one for travel).

They should update that, you could even have two versions these days to cater to both the liberals and the conservatives. "When you ride alone you ride with Bin Laden!" and "When you ride alone you ride with Dubya!". Contemporize to the max!

"How about using the needle to slice the banana with a rigth and left motion? I have to try this."

Yes, that's a much easier and more effective way to do this. Not to mention that you can pierce different places around the banana so it could look like normal spots instead of dotted rings all around the banana. Doing it with thread just takes longer and gives you a sh****er result.

That's actually the same trick, it just means you're touching the wall. Coincidentally the trick works on consistency, it doesn't matter if you take right or left as long as you're consistent. However, this doesn't ensure that you'll find the cheese.

For anyone interested, here's the satellite image of the maze: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=+33%C2%B034%2758.56%22N,++79%C2%B0+0%2755.45%22W&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=18&ll=33.583194,-79.015158&spn=0.002771,0.004844&t=k&om=1

A) it is potentially lethal, even though the risk is low. My grandfather went in for a marrow test quite some years ago, they accidentally left a small air bubble inside his spine. He was in excrutiating pain for about two weeks, constantly, 24/7 pain before they realized what was wrong. What they said was that if they hadn't realized what was wrong and had gotten the air out he'd probably have died not long thereafter. So I call bullshit on it being 100% safe.

B) What's up with everyone complaining about this not being "neat" and shouldn't be posted. It was the same thing about a body modification story a while back. I thought both that and this was neat (though this to a lesser degree), if anything I look upto the woman for not just allowing herself to be a pawn and do what was expected of her but instead take a stance and do what she wants.

What's even more neat is that this has become such a big topic of discussion when things such as this go on every day. So he dies, we're all going to die some day, it's only a tragedy if you make it a tragedy.

Indeed not freefall, and it's obvious from the video that he's slowed down sufficiently enough for other skydivers with fully open parachutes to actually catch up to him somewhat.

Saw a story about a guy a few years ago though who jumped and the parachute didn't open at all, nor did the reserve. He survivied by miraculously landing on a big metal grate that somewhat cushioned his fall (though he bounced a couple of times). He broke virtually every bone breakable and had massive internal damage, but survived.

You're saying that like they're ever been out of style. Pfft!

Or you can make one from a floppy disk: http://asciipr0n.com/archive/0013/bonnie/craft/

They found one of those in Sweden just last fall as well, though in that case it was probably someone who had discarded a dried, preserved, version of the same fish. Turns out they're fairly popular souvenires...for some odd macabre reason.

Here's the article about that find, though only avaliable in Swedish: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/stockholm/story/0,2789,999050,00.html

Thorbjørn, yes the earth is affected by the gravitational pull of the moon, but to say that it orbits around the moon is a fallacy. If anything the earth wobbles as the moon orbits around it.

Two stellar bodies that truly orbit eachother are for instance binary star systems where the stars are each caught in each others' gravitational pull. This only really happens though when the two bodies are of pretty much equal mass and exert pretty much equal gravitational pull.

Indeed, even Coca Cola used the swastika in their marketing prior to WW2, the Boy Scouts of America used it too back then.

The act of carrying up large constructions by skewers pointing into your body is called Kavadi (http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Kavadi)

This sort of body rituals are also often performed by members of the Savite Hindu group (http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Savite)

You can read more about the Thaipusam festival, the Chidi Mari festival (which is a similar festival held at a later date) as well as some other rituals held in other places (like the US) written by Fakir Musafar (US fakir) here: http://www.bmezine.com/news/fakir/20031115.html

Actually Erkan, it IS callet "hetvägg", it's dates back a few hundred years and the word comes from the German word (and dish) "heisse wecken". "Semla" is the modern wording of pretty much the same thing, and its etymology goes back to the latin word "simila".

However, the mention of marzipan being in the perticular hetvägg that Adolf Frederick ate before death is highly debatable. The first time that marzipan is mentioned as an ingredient is back in 1833, almost 60 years later.

Yay for useless knowledge.

Yes, that is a true klein bottle (you just cannot see where the "spout" goes through the bottle).

However (and yes, this can be argued ad nauseum), the M&Ms aren't inside the bottle, nor are they outside. They're contained by the bottle yes, but since there is no true inside or outside saying that they're "in" the bottle is a bit backwards.