Re: Inertial-dampening systems

From: Timo Nieminen (timo_at_physics.uq.edu.au)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:56:04 +1000

On Fri, 10 Feb 2005 msadkins04@yahoo.com wrote:

> Timo Nieminen wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Gregory L. Hansen wrote:
> >
> > > <msadkins04@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Then, you dispensed with the epoxy, saying that your
> > > >fluid (which doesn't exist, and is both biologically and
> mechanically
> > > >untenable) works because you can shake an egg in your hand as hard
> as
> > > >you like without breaking the yolk.
> > >
> > > I'll bet if you made an effort, you could find literature through
> > > scholar.google.com on my oxygenated fluid that doesn't exist and is
> both
> > > biologically and mechanically untenable. Try searching e.g. on
> "liquid
> > > ventilation".
> >
> > I was most impressed when I saw video of such fluid in action (on
> some
> > popular science show maybe 20 years ago). Big 2 litre beaker of clear
>
> > fluid. Add 1 mouse. Mouse runs around in fluid. Pull mouse out, hang
> to
> > drain, mouse runs around.
>
> Sigh...I don't suppose it matters that the biological/mechanical
> untenability I've been referring to dealt mainly with its proposed
> application in the context of the current thread?

If all you meant to say was that such an oxygenated fluid was inadequate
for the inertial-dampening system that you had in mind, perhaps you should
have simply said so (and, IIRC, you did say so earlier in the thread), but
you were also appearing to explicitly claim that such fluids don't exist.

Just commenting that not only do such fluids exist, the idea and
realisation are also quite old. And, of course, it makes for a very
videogenic demo.

Impractical for your idea, yes, non-existent, no. 

-- 
Timo

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