EPTI'm no biggie on science but showing my sibling about this (hes basically a friggin scientist) and after reading how it works; he definatly agreed - then on with about a paragraph worth of explanation I half-understood
Party Trick: Floating Apple - Page 3
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XDawn
Canada4040 Posts
I'm no biggie on science but showing my sibling about this (hes basically a friggin scientist) and after reading how it works; he definatly agreed - then on with about a paragraph worth of explanation I half-understood | ||
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DarK]N[exuS
China1441 Posts
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dronebabo
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Yogurt
United States4258 Posts
are you joking about him joking? cus i'm pretty sure this is a joke | ||
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mel_ee
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CoralReefer
Canada2069 Posts
too bad it only lasted for a minute cause i was just about to get my video camera for incontrovertible proof! | ||
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Coagulation
United States9633 Posts
What the hell.. so did it float like a rubber duck in the water or above?? and proof of what?!! We must know. | ||
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CoralReefer
Canada2069 Posts
it was floating like an alien rubber duck | ||
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lil.sis
China4650 Posts
On November 11 2006 12:11 Klogon wrote: Haha what I want to see is a video of a guy who boils that "mass liquid" in front of his friends, and after getting all excited, puts an apple in the pot and goes "watch this!" and nothing happens. "I swear it'll float and spin! It was on teh internet!" i think if anyone were to try this they would test it beforehand to avoid exactly such a scenario  | ||
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A3iL3r0n
United States2196 Posts
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Dendra
Croatia801 Posts
chuck was behind me gettin ready to roundhouse kick me and then apple killed him. | ||
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skyglow1
New Zealand3962 Posts
On November 11 2006 12:32 XDawn wrote: You guys know it's NOT fake and it actually works? I'm no biggie on science but showing my sibling about this (hes basically a friggin scientist) and after reading how it works; he definatly agreed - then on with about a paragraph worth of explanation I half-understood Have you actually tried it? Seems like rubbish to me. A gas thats heavier than the apple, that evaporates easily into the surronding air, and the level of the liquid doesn't drop over time or there was very little that evaporated. And the gas stays in the vicinity of the apple even though its denser than the apple? | ||
Klogon
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IIICodeIIIIIII
China1101 Posts
On November 11 2006 12:11 Klogon wrote: Haha what I want to see is a video of a guy who boils that "mass liquid" in front of his friends, and after getting all excited, puts an apple in the pot and goes "watch this!" and nothing happens. "I swear it'll float and spin! It was on teh internet!" haha. damnit, it's a joke site. though i wont comment on some of the other dumb things said in this thread. | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On November 11 2006 12:53 Yogurt wrote: are you joking about him joking? cus i'm pretty sure this is a joke Am I joking? Are you guys joking? Oh, it's like 5.40 in the morning here I should go to bed... No joking there! And for the record: yes I was joking!! Apart from the "or, hrm, I mean:" left out of the quote, some signs might be: 1) My later post clarifying that yes, indeed that was a joke. 2) My nice list of argument why that heavy gas couldn't lift the apple. 3) The "haha funny!!  " also left out from the quote.me --> bed. cheers!  (I guess this is a perfect example of shitty post that ETT warned us to do... Will I earn myself my first ban?) | ||
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Sfydjklm
United States9218 Posts
i guess i should stop. | ||
micronesia
United States24747 Posts
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
Good thing is unlike the concept of god which can nvr be tested, this site shows you exactly what needs to be done to reproduce the result, so if it cannot be done it'll be disproved easily. About the vapor that lifts the apple. It is possible that it's heavier than air yet still going upward. Have you seen a fountain before? Water is heavier than air yet if you apply some force to it (in this case you boil it upward) it will tend to rise a little before finally falling. So it's basically a fountain of air lifting the apple. However it's still likely to be a fake, have you any idea how freakin heavy an apple is? | ||
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micronesia
United States24747 Posts
On November 11 2006 21:15 evanthebouncy~ wrote: I think unless someone tries it you can't really disprove it. No matter how much we doubt it it's still believable untill we try it out. hmm~ Good thing is unlike the concept of god which can nvr be tested, this site shows you exactly what needs to be done to reproduce the result, so if it cannot be done it'll be disproved easily. If you are knowledgable on these areas of science, you can rule it out. Whether or not the other people in the community believe you is a different issue. As for disproving it, if someone comes on and says they tried it and it didn't work, that doesn't really disprove it. It just starts to discredit it. About the vapor that lifts the apple. It is possible that it's heavier than air yet still going upward. Have you seen a fountain before? Water is heavier than air yet if you apply some force to it (in this case you boil it upward) it will tend to rise a little before finally falling. So it's basically a fountain of air lifting the apple. However it's still likely to be a fake, have you any idea how freakin heavy an apple is? The explanation says that the fluid has to be heavier than the apple in order for it to work which doesn't really make sense... Also, boiling doesn't create an upward force (aside from bouyancy acting on the new gas) so if you turned the liquid into a gas that was SOMEHOW heavier than air, it wouldn't go up once it got past the top of the liquid. It would also not have enough momentum when it first reached the surface of the liquid to go up significantly past it, as is seen in the video. | ||
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Klogon
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