sciam.com— Thanks to modern fluid-simulation technology, I discovered that a shower curtain moves toward the water because a vortex forms creating a pressure drop and sucking the curtain toward the water.
Jul 2, 2007View in Crawl 4
Oh noes!!!!!11111oneoneone repeating scientific information for a new generation of readers.... the horrors... f**k you Issac Newton... you are so "last" century that you're totally worth ignoring now...
By reading your description, I "discovered" that you are a moron. I suppose that I could have run a very sophisticated analysis, but it really wasn't necessary...
Good thing we have Digg to bring light to these hard hitting issues.Next we'll cover the color of the sky, whether or not women lie, and if Joe Hallenbeck really thinks Satan Clause is out there.
I see that some of the people reading this post agree with me... Warm or hot water in the shower will increase the temperature of the air causing it to raise. This decreases the air pressure inside the tub causing the curtain to move inwards allowing cooler air from outside the shower in. Go inside the shower and alternate between hot and cold water every minute or so. Why so long? It takes some time for the water to cool or warm the surrounding air. When the water is hot the shower curtain will move in when it's cold it will not. I don't know what kind of shower curtain David used to claim "that the curtain will suck inward toward a cold shower, too." In my primitive testing the curtain did not move when the shower was cold. But don't take my word for it try it yourself.
Closed AccountJul 3, 2007
Hall's Vapor Action.
billsilJul 3, 2007
its vorticies, not vortexes despite what firefox spellcheck says...wtf firefox spellcheck cant spell firefox.../aerospace engineer//didnt know dealio bout shower curtains///has glass
weezer1024Jul 3, 2007
Oh noes!!!!!11111oneoneone repeating scientific information for a new generation of readers.... the horrors... f**k you Issac Newton... you are so "last" century that you're totally worth ignoring now...
haggieJul 3, 2007
By reading your description, I "discovered" that you are a moron. I suppose that I could have run a very sophisticated analysis, but it really wasn't necessary...
hosalabadJul 3, 2007
Good thing we have Digg to bring light to these hard hitting issues.Next we'll cover the color of the sky, whether or not women lie, and if Joe Hallenbeck really thinks Satan Clause is out there.
krle007Jul 3, 2007
I see that some of the people reading this post agree with me... Warm or hot water in the shower will increase the temperature of the air causing it to raise. This decreases the air pressure inside the tub causing the curtain to move inwards allowing cooler air from outside the shower in. Go inside the shower and alternate between hot and cold water every minute or so. Why so long? It takes some time for the water to cool or warm the surrounding air. When the water is hot the shower curtain will move in when it's cold it will not. I don't know what kind of shower curtain David used to claim "that the curtain will suck inward toward a cold shower, too." In my primitive testing the curtain did not move when the shower was cold. But don't take my word for it try it yourself.
drrbradfordJul 3, 2007
You needed to run a C.F.D. package to work this out? f**king n00b.
spanishbrowneJul 9, 2007
You got me - it was pretty much all about the balloonist joke :) and I never realised, it might've subconsciously been because of Sim City!