This thing aint on autopilot, son!
On Jun 22, 2013 12:18 AM, "Inkwell" <inkwell_01_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Are we chatting about the option where the water/ice is
> on top of a vacuum in a glass?
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> I thought if the glass was (hypothetically) strong enough to
> hold the impact of the accelerating water mass from the
> air pressure being exerted down on top of it the two
> objects would behave like two billiard balls colliding
> off one another. The glass is pushed up by air pressure,
> the water/ice pushed down by air pressure - the two masses
> meet and then recoil - if the glass doesn't break and the
> ice doesn't shatter.
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> Even if the ice broke apart it would shoot out of the glass
> like a cannon blast after collision.
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> As for water vaporizing into the vacuum, I don't think the
> water molecules would have enough time to leave the surface
> of the water mass with the rest of the water mass pushing
> down at a super high rate of acceleration.
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> I guess someone needs to calculate which would be faster.
> The speed of vaporized molecules leaving the water surface
> or over all speed of the main water mass.
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> Who's good at calculus?
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> Let's see. 1 + 1 = 11. I got this. Hang on a second.
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Received on Sat Jun 22 2013 - 15:17:31 CDT