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- squeevey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Well, I can make water go uphill by carrying it. I still am adding energy to the system.
To quote Homer J Simpson, "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" - thepotoo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+31I am so sick of people reporting dupes...
Unlike slashdot, there is a "report as dupe" button. Use it, and save us the time of reading your comment. Clearly, this story got to the front page because it had a better written summary, a more eye-catching title, or the submitter had more friends on his blog. - RyanDaRin, on 10/12/2007, -12/+28Canada (lets see how many negative diggs i can get~!)
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -26/+41http://digg.com/science/Scientists_make_water_run_uphill_2
http://digg.com/hardware/Scientists_make_water_run_uphill
http://digg.com/science/Video:_Scientists_Make_Water_Run_Uphill
http://digg.com/technology/Uphill_water_could_be_cool_for_chips
http://digg.com/technology/Future_Microprocessor_Coolant_-Water_That_Can_Walk_Up-Hill_
http://digg.com/technology/Water_will_walk_uphill_under_its_own_steam
http://digg.com/science/Make_Water_Run_Uphill - drigz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16In his defence, he needed a comment like that to show the sheer number of dupes of this story...
- goat77, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16No, those places are simply optical illusions.
- vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10tilt your monitor at an angle
- sunnyd, on 10/12/2007, -11/+18US (I bet my negative diggs will beat yours)
- PantherX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9MC Escher was right!
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Chile! (ahhh.... what the heck :) )
- Dakoman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9yeah, science labs
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Wow. lordthor beat you all, and he wasn't even trying.
- CanuckPlumber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Great now I have to change my joke about plumbers
All we need to know is water flows UPHILL
paydays every Friday
and never lick your fingers. - teh_techie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3watching the video, it reminds me slightly of a good ole' SLINKY!
- birdadderley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm glad some researchers are running water "uphill" to show that steam power works (using their grant money). I thought this was proven in the 1600's... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Aeolipile_illustration.JPG
- GreenfireStorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Is it just me or does the motion look a lot like a slinky in reverse?
No... wait
It's the blob! - Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, that was uphill allright. That hill's right by my house.
- ajashton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think the most interesting point is the last paragraph:
"It would be very neat if we could use the heat from the chip to be the pump, because you would not need any additional power, but also because the pumping only happens when the thing is warm; it would also be a thermostat at the same time. So it would all be in one package." - hiro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You're an idiot, VAPOUR is English, VAPOR is bastardised (note the correct "s" and not "z") American spelling
Get an education - trialofmiles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"or the submitter had more friends on his blog."
I think that's what happens in most situations, and why dupes aggravate so many people. - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You absolutely no sense of humor if you thought I was serious. I feel sorry for you.
- pozzoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This sounds similar to the ratchet effect.
- stinkipete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I swear a sculptor has already done this as like a garden water-feature. Dugg nonethless.
Yes, here you go folks:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3046791.stm
Actually upon reading the article he did not have actually acheive this, but merely created an optical illusion with bubbles.
So sorry for the waste of time. - idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It *is* the ratchet effect.
- amhed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And this is useful to the average person in what way??
- astroblastro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Elinke/dropletmovies/
here are some neat videos of the water moving. - enzedi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's quite literally OVER its own steam.
- MacGyver2210, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0amen, ditto, and anything else that means 'likewise'....I wonder if there is a liquid that can do this on a home staircase scale
- sladek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Crappy video, it's not even going up hill
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Scientists soon going to make the world spin the other way around and make time go backwards!
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1What's water "vapoUr"? Those Brits have no idea how to spell in English!
- flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1thats not really uphill. it looked like there was air blowing it to. this is so retarded.
- Pyfco, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Didn't I read Dyson doing something similar recenlty?
- artanis, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1How the heck do these keep making the front page?
- CharlesDarwin, on 10/12/2007, -20/+3RTF dupes!
- lordthor, on 10/12/2007, -25/+3***** canada, Yay america. Reported as inaccurate, the water isn't actualy flowing uphill, and these have also all been on digg before, so it's also old news.
- Chort, on 10/12/2007, -29/+2I thought that there were places on earth where this happens :S
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