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...why?

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:00 pm
by Grabmygoblin
scientists make water run uphill

they claim they did it as an experimental new cooling procedure, but I'm pretty sure this was just a drunk bet.

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:03 pm
by Rkolter
A lot of good science has come from drunk scientists making and taking bets. I have an entire book of scientific advances like that.

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:10 pm
by Garneta
Ooh, post some fun stories, then!

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:20 pm
by PF27
Wow, that's the second really weird random science related thing I've seen today.

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:00 pm
by Nyke
You might be laughing now, but when they develop the uphill water death cannon, who's going to be laughing then?

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:13 pm
by Sortelli
Actually, I'll still be laughing then too.

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:54 pm
by Dutch!
Wanna see liquid travel up instead of down? Easy.

Make a bowl of cereal. Dig your spoon in nice and deep. Pull it out again. Notice that most of the milk that falls from the spoon lands safely in the bowl. But little drips will actually rise to attach themselves to the bottom of the spoon.

Trust me. It probably has something to do with static and gravity.

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:05 am
by Killbert-Robby
Now we can ride canoes to the top of Mt. Everest!

...with singers and champagne!

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:19 am
by Cope
I was hoping more for a luxury ferry...

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:27 am
by Jackhass
[Shakes head].

God isn't going to like this. It was actually going to be the 11th commandment. "Thou shalt not make water run uphill".

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:25 am
by Humbug
I imagined a river or a stream going uphill, boy was I disappointed. :P My mind is so weird.

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:31 am
by Joel Fagin
Jackhass wrote:God isn't going to like this. It was actually going to be the 11th commandment. "Thou shalt not make water run uphill".
Actually, the eleventh commandment is inscribed on a large rock half way down Greenmount Hill on the Great Eastern Highway, Perth. The faithful flock to it every year.

It says, and I quote "Thou shalt not speed."

- Joel Fagin

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 6:40 am
by Rkolter
Jackhass wrote:[Shakes head].

God isn't going to like this. It was actually going to be the 11th commandment. "Thou shalt not make water run uphill".
I'd heard there were 15 commandments until someone fumbled and dropped five.

Explains a lot really. Think about it - don't you save your best material for last?

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 6:51 am
by Dr Legostar
DarkMagician wrote:You might be laughing now, but when they develop the uphill water death cannon, who's going to be laughing then?
seeing as I'll be the one running the death cannon, there shall be much laughter, maniacal laughter, but still.

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 8:52 am
by Grabmygoblin
rkolter wrote:
Jackhass wrote:[Shakes head].

God isn't going to like this. It was actually going to be the 11th commandment. "Thou shalt not make water run uphill".
I'd heard there were 15 commandments until someone fumbled and dropped five.

Explains a lot really. Think about it - don't you save your best material for last?
actually, the first time Moses walked down to the bottom of the mountian he shattered the commandments because he saw his followers worshiping a golden calf. God was kinda pissed when he came back up and asked for another copy. but I don't remember my Catholic school lessons enough to tell you if there were 15 originally


(yes, I know that was a reference to History of the World part one)

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 9:59 am
by Ti-Phil
grabmygoblin wrote:
rkolter wrote:
Jackhass wrote:[Shakes head].

God isn't going to like this. It was actually going to be the 11th commandment. "Thou shalt not make water run uphill".
I'd heard there were 15 commandments until someone fumbled and dropped five.

Explains a lot really. Think about it - don't you save your best material for last?
actually, the first time Moses walked down to the bottom of the mountian he shattered the commandments because he saw his followers worshiping a golden calf. God was kinda pissed when he came back up and asked for another copy. but I don't remember my Catholic school lessons enough to tell you if there were 15 originally


(yes, I know that was a reference to History of the World part one)
...isn't that a movie?

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:01 am
by The Mortician
Actually there was around 15 commandments in the bible... but you see some of them were edited out by the church in the 1500's I believe? I read it somewhere...

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:22 am
by Nyke
15? Heh. Try 613.

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 11:55 am
by Vorticus
Uphill water :o . Though the suggestion he makes about using it to cool computers in great, more power for the gaming!

Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:18 pm
by Dr Legostar
Vorticus wrote:Uphill water :o . Though the suggestion he makes about using it to cool computers in great, more power for the gaming!
eventually we will replace the word "overclocking" with "hydrating"