CopperBrompton
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Watch out for those vacuum pockets!
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2Loose
Guru
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- Loughborough, Leicestershire.
Thats is great...I would say 'only in America' but I would be so far wrong
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
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- Back up north
That gave me a laugh - thanks!
Twenty Inch
Guru
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- Behind a desk
I love it.
Those pesky vacuum pockets....
Those pesky vacuum pockets....
Cubist
Still wavin'
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- Ovver 'thill
Gives me all the ammo I need to make sure that the Bissell is only used by the suitably qualified in the household. I'm NOT on the list
Mr Pig
New Member
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- North Lanarkshire
2Loose said:
Yes. Reads like a story line from the new Dr Who and they made that here.
"If I can just get my sonic screwdriver to hold a vacuum pocket around that triple-furry widget for ten seconds the universe will be saved...again."
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
We've all been talking at work recently, about the posibility of the LHC creating a black hole and everything being sucked into it, it's become a bit of an in-joke. Today we were commenting at tea time, about the high wind, and then someone said, "Suppose it's not a high wind, but all the clouds are being sucked towards the LHC? Which direction is Switzerland from here?"
Spookily, it turned out to be exactly the direction the clouds were in.
I assume fromt eh fact that I'm still here, it was just windy. Unless we've all just passed into an alternative universe.
Spookily, it turned out to be exactly the direction the clouds were in.
I assume fromt eh fact that I'm still here, it was just windy. Unless we've all just passed into an alternative universe.
Forget all that localized nonsense: here's a really scary scenario!
Forget the Complete Works of Shakespeare. If a million monkeys - nay, a dozen monkeys - nay, one monkey will do - were sat in front of a computer, it might type out the exact codes and passwords that unleash World War III. It could happen. And someone's bound to have sat a monkey in front of a computer, somewhere in the world, even as I type this. At the very least we need a risk analysis...
Forget the Complete Works of Shakespeare. If a million monkeys - nay, a dozen monkeys - nay, one monkey will do - were sat in front of a computer, it might type out the exact codes and passwords that unleash World War III. It could happen. And someone's bound to have sat a monkey in front of a computer, somewhere in the world, even as I type this. At the very least we need a risk analysis...
In fact, I've come across some far more plausible, popular misconceptions, about vacuum.
As a student I was doing some experiments on a system kept in a vacuum, under a stout glass bell-jar. The technician was a bit worried about the risk of the jar breaking, but of course H&S wasn't then like it is now! Anyway, with the pump we used first, we were able to get down to about 10^(-5) Torr (about 1/100millionth of an atmosphere). Later we got a better diffusion pump, and were now able to go down to 10^(-6) Torr. The technician's worry was: "won't that make it a ten times bigger bang, if the jar does break?"
I remember trying to explain. Perhaps someone here has a clearer answer than mine?
As a student I was doing some experiments on a system kept in a vacuum, under a stout glass bell-jar. The technician was a bit worried about the risk of the jar breaking, but of course H&S wasn't then like it is now!
Anyway, with the pump we used first, we were able to get down to about 10^(-5) Torr (about 1/100millionth of an atmosphere). Later we got a better diffusion pump, and were now able to go down to 10^(-6) Torr. The technician's worry was: "won't that make it a ten times bigger bang, if the jar does break?"I remember trying to explain. Perhaps someone here has a clearer answer than mine?
