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A monkey sits in the conductor seat of a train, trying to figure out how to make it stop.In flailing, gives engine so much fuel that oxygen can't keep up; flooding engine. Train slowly stops.Eureka! Cries monkey. How to stop the train.🙈🙉🙊https://t.co/dBrtgKfnJU
I don't have a license. But even I know you can shift the gears to a different state to create internal friction to slow down the car while in a situation where you don't have breaks.The train is on an incline and the monkey doesn't understand friction. https://t.co/MThPs9xXUH https://t.co/UsfpcKaIze
The monkey doesn't even know to ask what kind of train it is.https://t.co/oBtdEOEviw
Do you understand how train work?https://t.co/XzQbZYzvXf
I'm over here laughing that people assume tesla valves work outside of a pulse based high turbulence situations.https://t.co/3SESBYdnxR
If you want a diodic valve to act under laminar flow conditions, you'll want something entirely different looking.https://t.co/faQRAmpNzs
That thing was built for a very unique use case: inside of a high pressure piston based apparatus https://t.co/J3Hob3obPiEveryone takes the thing out of context and tests it without understanding why it works.https://t.co/i9IHkrRQhoIt is maddening.
Anyway, if you wanna do anything interesting with microfluics, I recommend watching Integza and MrTeslonian to understand how it works at a macroscale.Me? I just imagine what ant/termite gasses/pheromones would do under hot+cold variation thru the day. https://t.co/ynf6wI9wsq
Apparently I have to know how to do math to figure that out."second formula gives an expression of the ratio of the drag force actually sensed by the ball falling in an infinite medium to that in the Stokes limit as a function of Reynolds number alone."https://t.co/do5e3mbClv
Did you know that there is something analogous to the "Ground Effect" that occurs more violently at a layer very close to the ground? It's basically caused by the ground heating up, creating a boundary layer effect akin to this sand valve phenomena. https://t.co/SpX8WjDyC3
I really like paper air planes and oscillatory motions caused by interactions at fluid boundaries as they hit different turbulent flow sweet spots.https://t.co/RcLacnl1H0
I was painting paper airplanes black and accounting for the humidity and cloud cover.As I child I was predicting the weather just to better fly paper airplanes.https://t.co/W9kM1jgzSR
I was coating paper in fine soot from a fireplace because it was the lightest black material I could get access to. Quickly realized I could mix it with tree oils to impregnant the paper *AND* get water proofing for damp grass landings.https://t.co/8UCN6iUOZw
Doesn't everyone live in the woods and learn how to make firecrackers out of birch bark to scare away animals and hide mosquitoes? SMHhttps://t.co/dHnku7kLAQ
Everyone wants to make stuff out of motors and gears.https://t.co/H2AAPObFGQ
I wanna move water with farts.https://t.co/oBbEDQYor8
There was a tube full of fart bubbles at the The Montshire Museum of Science. They let you play with a dial. I wanted to make my own.https://t.co/4oF7wctDjAI grew up blowing bubbles in chocolate milk.
Bubble go up.How do we increase the ability of boundary layers to form in water? We can decrease it be degassing. So how can we get more air trapped in the water?https://t.co/fksyEDvuc4
Trying to sleep, when I see a video about mixing water and oil together without an emulsifier.It turns out dissolved gas molecules have an impact on oil mixing.So if taking air out (degassing) causes more mixing, what happens if you aerate?https://t.co/1HFNeUpSoj
Is there something like Alka-Seltzer's bubbling that is reversible somehow?Storing energy as bubbles trapped in calcium, maybe?https://t.co/Ps1B7b4QAo
Do you ever investigate formic acid and vinegar production and its interaction with rocks?Rocks are everywhere, and not a drop to drink.https://t.co/GbDaASDBM4
If you want to test the impact of using high-heat + acid to degrade silicates and calcium's from rock samples, please be sure that you know the expansion co-efficient of the acids you boil in an instant pot. Also note that you'll likely destroy the liner.https://t.co/G2J7SZhm87
Tired: fizzy lifting drinksWired: Pop rock powered energy harvestingInpsired: Mentos and Coke, but using 3d printing to generate nucleation sites.Oh hey, someone did that already.https://t.co/4kRIs67CZg
"Results indicate that use of a solar thermal system with long-duration storage of either thermomechanical or direct thermal energy (molten draw salt) is probably not justified when compared to the use of coal-fired boilers for steam generation. However"https://t.co/xTaksib2rb
I dream of machines.https://t.co/q7pZaPuArP
Autonomous Ekranoplans. Uses ground effect. https://t.co/m8DSObwtRu
That Ekranoplane was made in collaboration with the guy behind the drone bote https://t.co/UOkGqakHjP
Cool idea. We already use various distance sensors in consumer drones to help keep it at a known height above the ground. Putting it in a ground effect plane is a great transposition.https://t.co/82ZzI3F2oG
Boat + hydrofoil = poor hovercraftBoat + ground effect wing = better hovercraftHovercraft + wing = funny looking plane that can hover on water.https://t.co/QLzmES2y0e
If water make boat slow, avoid the water.https://t.co/1kgDctQ7vF