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moocow
09-29-2006, 11:35 PM
Coolest thing EVER. (http://www.badscience.net/?p=298)

Maybe not ever. But you know.


Discuss.

goKi
09-30-2006, 12:05 AM
That is pretty damn awesome.

Modus Ponens
09-30-2006, 01:47 PM
A few of my friends and my physics teacher and I set up a similar experiment using a burette (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burette) and a stroboscope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroboscope). The strobe had a frequency dial on it, and so, by manipulating the rate at which water came out of the burette and by manipulating the frequency of the strobe, we could easily produce a similar effect. It was inbelieveably rad to be able to manually splash a drop that was frozen in mid-air, and then un-splash it. We could effectively "control the flow of time" by turning the dial on the stroboscope or the tap on the burette. It was splendid.

Breaker
09-30-2006, 02:01 PM
I was expecting lesbians, but this is cool too.

Beldaran
09-30-2006, 02:20 PM
I was expecting lesbians, but this is cool too.

Never one to disappoint:

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erm2003
09-30-2006, 02:22 PM
Haha. I am sure that's exactly what Breaker had in mind.

Modus Ponens
10-01-2006, 06:31 AM
Beldaran, you rapidly alternate between being my hero and being my arch-nemesis. Right now you're my hero.

mikeron
10-01-2006, 10:14 PM
Calibrating the drops must have been a bitch and a half.

Kind of reminds me of this (http://www.99express.com/posts/ferrofluid_sculptures.htm) (scroll down).

*b*
10-01-2006, 10:36 PM
That's definitly cool, though the occasional mis-time of the drops/flash breaks the illusion. Still, the fact that somone actually came up with this is pretty neat

Modus Ponens
10-02-2006, 04:15 AM
Calibrating the drops must have been a bitch and a half.

It's not that bad, really. You just set the burette's tap and then tune the frequency of the stroboscope until it syncs up. It's not very hard.

Jigsaw
10-02-2006, 10:30 AM
Ausome

goKi
10-02-2006, 12:20 PM
Ausome

What he said.

Glitch
10-02-2006, 01:11 PM
What he said.

oh man. good times.

ZTC
10-02-2006, 01:16 PM
shit...
that's quite impressive
lol goKi

goKi
10-02-2006, 01:34 PM
oh man. good times.

Indeed good times.