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Ha, I love this. Brilliant. I would do Honey/Syrup absolutely.
I'd also lick my fingers when done. |
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Bonus: you'd be able to tell when and where people peed in the pool. |
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Vodka has roughly the same viscosity as water, at
reasonable temperatures. |
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However, between 10 and 40°C, the viscosity of
water varies about 2-fold. |
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I wonder if swimming records take into account the
water temperature? Even a 1°C difference changes
the viscosity by a percent or two. |
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//a 1°C difference changes the viscosity by a percent or
two// |
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There was a Mythbusters episode where they tested the
effect of swimming through different viscosities. They
discovered that they were both such inconsistent swimmers
that they were going to make an incredibly noisy data set.
So they got in an athlete-level swimmer. Turns out you can
keep increasing the viscosity (with guar I think) and the
speeds remain similar. Relevant <link> |
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That sort of makes sense - higher viscosity gives more
resistance, but also more result from your power
strokes. |
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now, a carefully tuned non-Newtonian fluid however, should
solidify around the fast-moving arm, and allow the body to
slide through |
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Or layers; reach down and grab the viscous layer to pull yourself along. |
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Jesus walked on water, but Chuck Norris can swim through land. |
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I keep clicking on this thinking it's going to be a morphing billiards table. |
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[2 fries] Mine was a dynamic walled swimming pool. |
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aside: Isn't there a problem that ball bearings won't float you? Even if you are a lighter density, there are no inter-ball forces, only gravity. Maybe magnetic ball bearings could be used. |
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Wouldn't swimming in vodka kill you, assuming you
were not Russian? |
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//Wouldn't swimming in vodka kill you |
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perhaps, but it would tend to make the olympics a bit more fraternal, as all the swimmers get out at the other end saying "yourr my bestesh ever pal, you are <hic>" in their native language. |
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// Isn't there a problem that ball bearings won't float
you? // |
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Buoyancy still exists in solids. It's one of the forces
that causes granular convection. |
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'Buoyancy' is just a fancy name for 'gravity attracts
denser things more strongly per unit volume.' |
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Buoyancy in solids does depend on another source of
motion to allow it to occur, though. |
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