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October 24, 2013 5:13 AM Subscribe
2 parts self-indulgent chatty nerds to one part fascinating slow-mo water droplet bouncing. The water droplet part was very cool anyhow.
posted by aught at 5:38 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by aught at 5:38 AM on October 24, 2013
Agreed aught... the URL I posted had "#t=66" (skip 66 seconds into the video) at the end which is supposed to jump to the good part, but it's probably getting in the way of Google Ads so is broken as a feature.
posted by panaceanot at 5:47 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by panaceanot at 5:47 AM on October 24, 2013
This makes me want to teach high-school physics. How much easier would it be to talk about this stuff if you could make some wild-sounding claim and then click your clicker and pull it up on YouTube? I mean, not to make teachers do even more homework than they already do, but.
posted by radicalawyer at 6:11 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by radicalawyer at 6:11 AM on October 24, 2013
I approve of this.
posted by rainy at 6:50 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by rainy at 6:50 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
I had no idea I was going to see something like that this morning. Thanks, panaceanot!
posted by ChrisR at 6:53 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by ChrisR at 6:53 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
I like the contrast between the ordinary chattiness of the framing and the silent, mysterious majesty of the initial drop, and how the increasing tininess of the drop becomes almost funny.
Walter Wick's A Drop of Water is a children's book with many photos similar to this, of water drops and water in other forms.
posted by Francolin at 7:09 AM on October 24, 2013
Walter Wick's A Drop of Water is a children's book with many photos similar to this, of water drops and water in other forms.
posted by Francolin at 7:09 AM on October 24, 2013
Must... reach... most... energetically... favorable... configuration...
posted by Rhomboid at 7:18 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Rhomboid at 7:18 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
YEAH!
And for a second I thought the brown-haired fellow was Jake Gyllenhall!
posted by droplet at 7:20 AM on October 24, 2013
And for a second I thought the brown-haired fellow was Jake Gyllenhall!
posted by droplet at 7:20 AM on October 24, 2013
I was really hoping that would be feet per second rather than frames per second.
posted by Aizkolari at 7:44 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Aizkolari at 7:44 AM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
This could be an entire chapter from Walden or the plot of Shane Carruth's next film. Lovely.
posted by jwhite1979 at 8:07 AM on October 24, 2013
posted by jwhite1979 at 8:07 AM on October 24, 2013
the URL I posted had "#t=66" (skip 66 seconds into the video)...
In my experience I've always included an "m" and an "s", for minutes and seconds. I don't know it'll work here. Let's try.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ynk4vJa-VaQ#t=1m6s
posted by benito.strauss at 8:51 AM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
In my experience I've always included an "m" and an "s", for minutes and seconds. I don't know it'll work here. Let's try.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ynk4vJa-VaQ#t=1m6s
posted by benito.strauss at 8:51 AM on October 24, 2013 [2 favorites]
The URL as posted is http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ynk4vJa-VaQ#t=66 . Changing the quadrapenultimate character to an ampersand instead of a hash mark pound sign tic-tac-toe grid works. Perhaps a mod could update the FPP?
EDIT - hmm, the displayed text is different from what pops up in the new tab address bar. Change the hash mark to an ampersand and it works fine. Don't know why it's printing '&' when I'm typing '#'.
posted by disconnect at 8:58 AM on October 24, 2013
EDIT - hmm, the displayed text is different from what pops up in the new tab address bar. Change the hash mark to an ampersand and it works fine. Don't know why it's printing '&' when I'm typing '#'.
posted by disconnect at 8:58 AM on October 24, 2013
What's more, you totally don't need that "feature=player_detailpage&" in there. AFAIK it doesn't do anything.
In summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynk4vJa-VaQ&t=1m6s
(That said, the link as posted worked just fine for me.)
posted by Sys Rq at 10:27 AM on October 24, 2013
In summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynk4vJa-VaQ&t=1m6s
(That said, the link as posted worked just fine for me.)
posted by Sys Rq at 10:27 AM on October 24, 2013
THAT WAS TOTALLY AMAZING!
I wish it were still Caps Lock day ...
posted by Jonathan Livengood at 1:34 PM on October 24, 2013
I wish it were still Caps Lock day ...
posted by Jonathan Livengood at 1:34 PM on October 24, 2013
When the drop is in that unstable equilibrium state of just balancing on the surface, what's happening at the touching surfaces? Are there two parallel arrangements of water molecules with nothing in between them? Would it be possible to arrange more than two layers like that, a la graphite?
posted by Devonian at 1:50 PM on October 24, 2013
posted by Devonian at 1:50 PM on October 24, 2013
Shamelessly stealing from the post title:
BOUNCE
bounce
bounce
bounce
...
I started laughing out of sheer joy around the third droplet. Thanks for posting this.
posted by seyirci at 4:05 PM on October 24, 2013
BOUNCE
bounce
bounce
bounce
...
I started laughing out of sheer joy around the third droplet. Thanks for posting this.
posted by seyirci at 4:05 PM on October 24, 2013
Yes, I skipped past the incredibly annoying commentators. Whenever I link to youtube, I try to skip the incredibly annoying introductions and get right to the important content.
These idiots don't even know what they are looking at. It is called an antibubble.
Screw these guys. Want some real antibubble action? Underwater antibubbles at 720p HD, 120FPS captured on a Red One camera. Then antibubbles in zero G on the International Space station. Do it yourself: make your own antibubbles on the surface of a liquid or underwater.
Note for the DIY people: coffee is the perfect density for making antibubbles. They are easy to observe when you make coffee with a filter cone, the "drip" process sends a stream of warm water with solids in it, at the proper speed to impact the surface and send antibubbles skittering across the surface. They are especially observable as the coffee cup fills and the stream slows down.
posted by charlie don't surf at 4:47 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
These idiots don't even know what they are looking at. It is called an antibubble.
Screw these guys. Want some real antibubble action? Underwater antibubbles at 720p HD, 120FPS captured on a Red One camera. Then antibubbles in zero G on the International Space station. Do it yourself: make your own antibubbles on the surface of a liquid or underwater.
Note for the DIY people: coffee is the perfect density for making antibubbles. They are easy to observe when you make coffee with a filter cone, the "drip" process sends a stream of warm water with solids in it, at the proper speed to impact the surface and send antibubbles skittering across the surface. They are especially observable as the coffee cup fills and the stream slows down.
posted by charlie don't surf at 4:47 PM on October 24, 2013 [1 favorite]
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