Vortex Cannon : SLYT "Jem Stansfield builds a vortex cannon to pick up where the big bad wolf failed to blow over a house of brick."
More details at the
BBC.
posted by bwg
on Aug 2, 2009 -
43 comments
Early in the morning on November 21, 1980, twelve men abandonded their oil rig on Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, suspecting that something was wrong. Little did they know they created a
SWIRLING VORTEX OF DOOM!
posted by punkfloyd
on Mar 28, 2006 -
59 comments
Mention
Whirlpools, and people tend to assume you're talking about a Jacuzzi.
But not all
whirlpools man-made. When powerful tidal currents are forced between a narrow fjord, and then come up against another current traveling in a different direction, the result is a large water vortex.
Being tidal means they are predicable. Some of the more famous
whirlpools are the
Corryvreckian(Scotland), "
Old Sow" (Canada), Moskstraumen and
Saltstraumen (Norway), and the
Naruto (Japan). Notice how they each claim to be the largest of them all.
...Just one more thing to ponder the next time you
pull the chain
posted by BentPenguin
on Aug 11, 2002 -
14 comments
The Oregon Vortex is a nice place to visit if you enjoy places where things roll uphill and things change size base on their position.
Many have tried to figure it out. Physicist John Lister spent forty years there only to burn all his notes.
When is someone going to let the vortex genie out?
posted by john
on Feb 20, 2001 -
40 comments
