[Two Vortex Rings Colliding in SLOW MOTION – Smarter Every Day 195] (Viewer #2,158,256)
You’d think this would be a simple process. You’d be thinking wrong.
[Two Vortex Rings Colliding in SLOW MOTION – Smarter Every Day 195] (Viewer #2,158,256)
You’d think this would be a simple process. You’d be thinking wrong.
The should use the effect for the next deathstar destruction.
Something is eluding my poor understanding, here.
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(1)
Is it a near-insurmountable engineering problem to shoot a blob of dye (using compressed air with a trigger) into a clear plastic pool of water?
(This seems like something Mythbusters could do in an episode.)
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(2)
It’s not? Then why would it be much harder to point two such devices at each other, so the blobs collide?
(You may not always get a head-on collision, but that could be overcome by incremental adjustments)
So why did this experiment take three years?
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(3)
He keeps dissing the original videotape technology this was once recorded on, yet he shows in the first few seconds of the video that he was able to watch that video over and over and over, in slow motion. So what exactly was the problem with it? And what was his groundbreaking three-year discovery?
(2) any kind of movement of the water within the tank that you could not notice could throw off the collision, so just adjusting for a near miss could turn into chasing a ghost.
Put me to sleep faster than golf on TV, but still interesting stuff.
A tv set is too small for golf, you end up not using your Driver much.