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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. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment Webcam: http://www.theninthwatch.com/feed/ RadioLab Podcast about the Pitch Drop http://www.radiolab.org/story/267176-never-quite-now/ |
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Exciting
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Damn Buck...you need to join a pron site or something.
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I bet the 1954 drop was incredibly exciting, since it was so far ahead of schedule.
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Oh, I didn't mention that it's due to drop any moment now.
My favorite part about this is that there is already some pitch in the beaker below and it hasn't dropped since the year 2000. Pretty cool how that has just been sitting there, uninterrupted since then. |
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Glass is a liquid as well.
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Buck, I could be wrong, but looking at this thing makes me think it's still a few weeks from falling. It looks like it's still super thick at the bottom where the drop should separate from the rest of the asphalt.
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Last time it took 12.83 years for it to drop. That was in the year 2000. So add another 12.83 years and it's about due. |
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"Some time after the seventh drop fell in 1988, air conditioning was added to the location where the experiment takes place. The temperature stability has lengthened each drop's stretch before it separates from the rest of the pitch in the funnel." |
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You're right, I was purely speculating. I don't know how to read the thickness or when it's going to break either. I've been working at the computer this morning and have kept it open. I'm the #346th top watcher now. I'm about to lose steam though, because I'm outta here.
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lol this is cool.
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