Comments on: Anybody wanna peanut?

By: random6655321

random6655321 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:43:57 +0000

The best part about the Princess Bride quote is that in the movie, it’s a giant asking a dwarf, for which he blows up saying, “Gahh!!!!” lol

This is a wonderful posting BA.

By: darius

darius — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:23:35 +0000

Michael:

You’re making assumptions about the conditions of the bucket. The BA didn’t say you would be holding the bucket straight out, he didn’t say how full it would be, and he didn’t say how fast you would be spinning. You could be holding the bucket upright, it could be filled all the way to the top, and you could be spinning slowly. Almost certainly, some would spill out. There are also various other combinations that would result in a spill.

Or you could just do what Stark says and add in the dwarf nova effect.

Are there rocks ahead?

By: Stark

Stark — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:55:16 +0000

Michael, you are coreect – assuming the velocity is high enough to keep all the liquid in place and there are no peturbations introduced. The BA’s analogy was right but you need to add a water-proof firecracker into the bucket to get the full effect. When the firecracker goes off you will most certainly get some spillage out of the bucket. Unless you used a very large firecracker that spillage will travel away from you (though at a slower rate than if you had simply dumped to bucket) after it splashes out.

It’s hard to do but you can demontrate this for yourself with a rock on a string and that bucket of water on a rope – swing them both at the same time and, if you are exceptionally coordinated, you should be able to drop the rock into the bucket. I said it was hard… but I’ve seen similar done (beer bottle on rope and bucket on a rope – it was drunken geek bet).

By: Irishman

Irishman — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:33:28 +0000

PK, look at the linked article, you will see those modelling pics are from there.

By: HawaiiArmo

HawaiiArmo — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:27:36 +0000

Princess Bride? It’s a SUpernova 1A, that’s the title pun. Or put it this way, anybody 1A Peanut (the shape of the structure I guess)

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:21:03 +0000

BA, a problem with the spinning bucket analogy. If you take a bucket, and spin it around you, no water should fall out (until you try to stop it, if you are not careful). This basic theory has been used by Swaggies (swagmen, as in the song), in Australia for a 100 years now (a long time in Australian modern history) to brew their billy (tea). To get the tea leaves to settle in the tin can they brewed it in, they would swing the can around in the circle (usually vertically), not spilling any.

By: TravisM

TravisM — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:22:16 +0000

Dang. Great movie, but makes for a more interesting article!