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Old 10-21-2013, 10:16 AM  
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Watch the Pitch Drop™

This is the longest known, uninterrupted experiment in the world.

In 1927, an Australian professor put an extremely viscous liquid (asphalt, a.k.a. The Pitch, which is commonly mistaken for a solid) into a funnel and it has been slowly dripping ever since.

It has dripped a drop only 8 times since 1938, and has never been seen by a human before. Now there is a web cam, and you can watch it slowly drip.

Very exciting.

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Old 04-18-2014, 07:34 PM   #76
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Old 04-18-2014, 07:41 PM   #77
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I don't think this counts. Look at the live feed.

If you took a dump and it looked like that, would you consider it to have "dropped?"
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Old 04-18-2014, 08:42 PM   #78
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I don't think this counts. Look at the live feed.

If you took a dump and it looked like that, would you consider it to have "dropped?"
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Old 04-18-2014, 08:45 PM   #79
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Wait a sec--hold everything. The thing is still connected by a thick band. They are calling it a "drop" because it got low enough that it touched the prior drop, which is sticking way up from the bottom of the receptacle.

I say no drop until it separates. And, they ought to clean out the prior drop remnants to keep it from impeding the coming drop. This whole thing is bullshit now.
Yeah, but it's no longer supported from the top. It's supported by the bottom as well. Is the definition of a "drop" that it gets no support from the top, or is it that it gets support from the bottom? This is quite perplexing.

I think it drops as soon as it gets support from the bottom. This is a test of viscosity or whatever. As soon as it gets support from something other than the top, you can no longer test viscosity.

At first glance, I agree that they should clear out the bottom. But then I started wondering how far it would stretch before it broke and literally fell. I'm not sure that six inches is enough. They may have to start this whole thing over and set the hole up above a fifty-foot drop to eliminate ambiguity.
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Old 04-18-2014, 09:09 PM   #80
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Yeah, but it's no longer supported from the top. It's supported by the bottom as well. Is the definition of a "drop" that it gets no support from the top, or is it that it gets support from the bottom? This is quite perplexing.

I think it drops as soon as it gets support from the bottom. This is a test of viscosity or whatever. As soon as it gets support from something other than the top, you can no longer test viscosity.

At first glance, I agree that they should clear out the bottom. But then I started wondering how far it would stretch before it broke and literally fell. I'm not sure that six inches is enough. They may have to start this whole thing over and set the hole up above a fifty-foot drop to eliminate ambiguity.
So, you basically agree that the experiment is ruined.
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Old 04-18-2014, 09:10 PM   #81
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So, you basically agree that the experiment is ruined.
It does seem that way.
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Old 04-18-2014, 09:17 PM   #83
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Old 04-18-2014, 09:45 PM   #84
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I don't think this counts. Look at the live feed.

If you took a dump and it looked like that, would you consider it to have "dropped?"
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Yeah, but it's no longer supported from the top. It's supported by the bottom as well. Is the definition of a "drop" that it gets no support from the top, or is it that it gets support from the bottom? This is quite perplexing.

I think it drops as soon as it gets support from the bottom. This is a test of viscosity or whatever. As soon as it gets support from something other than the top, you can no longer test viscosity.

At first glance, I agree that they should clear out the bottom. But then I started wondering how far it would stretch before it broke and literally fell. I'm not sure that six inches is enough. They may have to start this whole thing over and set the hole up above a fifty-foot drop to eliminate ambiguity.
Think about a raindrop--if it was still connected to the cloud from which it descended, I bet we wouldn't call it a "drop."

They really should have worked all this out beforehand.
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