/sci/ - Science & Math

because >Giant Thumb

inb4 god

shit that's right. god doesn't exist in the realm of /sci/
guess we'll never have this

Fluid dynamics doesn't always scale up.

try this:

take a can. Remove both ends with a can opener. Now fill your sink with water and do the experiment. It won't work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh-Taylor_instability

>>4310552
>guess we'll never have this
You misunderstand.

/sci/ doesn't believe in God because we haven't invented him yet. So you'd better begin praying, because there will be no one left to save you once we do.

>>4310579
>Create God...

Hmm. That's not a bad idea...

>>4310579
>>4310586
So Miriam was right all along

>Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud we have become, and how blind.

>>4310579
Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe -- ninety-six billion planets -- into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.
Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment's silence he said, "Now, Dwar Ev."
Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.
Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. "The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn."
"Thank you," said Dwar Reyn. "It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer."
He turned to face the machine. "Is there a God?"
The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay.
"Yes, now there is a God."
Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.
A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.

>>4310535
this sounds like a job for the Mythbusters

Unfortunately it only works if he tube is very thin.

Unfortunately it only works if the tube is very thin.

so what is the theoretical maximum size that can be done?

>>4310686
Slightly smaller than the size of a UK 5 pence coin.

>>4310596
Fuck you mirriam.

This is Deidre.

I put my environmental policies on hold just so I could planetbust each of your cities.

>>4310702
That's some skinny dipping.

>only works if the tube is very thin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_diver

didn't you do this in kindergarden? we used heads of matches as divers.

>>4311568
That is different.