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Can someone in here explain to me what is happening here?

Pic highly related.

>> No.3058824

I forget the website, but the guy was experimenting with some kind of expanding band for insulation. It's a heat reaction.

>> No.3058827

It appears water is leaving the cup and being siphoned upwards into a container with a lid.

Well, this is what you would think, if you have never experienced gravity.

>> No.3058829

>>3058821
Dunno. The plastic could be melting, but that doesn't really explain the change in volume. It could be denaturing polymers... at any rate, it looks like a thermally activated reaction.

You'd have to find out what the blue stuff is.

>> No.3058831

Probably a chemical reaction similar to Pharoah's Serpent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN9pioJWTk0

>> No.3058836

>>3058831
Possible, though I wonder why any cup would contain something that reacts with water.

Oh damn, wait a minute - why was I assuming that the liquid being poured is water?

>> No.3058838

it's probably some kind of plastic strongly bonded to the cup and in direct contact with the hot water. You can notice it doesn't "melt" on top (where's attached" and theres a stripe that acts the same (bonded to the cup's "pillar")

>> No.3058841

there is space between the cup and the band, only the band is moving away from the (I presume hot) water, the cup seems intact.

>> No.3058844

did you guys also notice there was something in the cup already? looks like coffee :P

>> No.3058849

>>3058836
prank cup

>> No.3058857

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F9O8YV_36Q

its technology developed for starbucks

>> No.3058899

>>3058857
Oh nice digging that up.

Pretty cool stuff