- Look at this crankshaft from this engine for a tanker from Slashdot.
- Need to train in a super deep pool (from Gizmodo
- Checkout the big detector from Backreaction
- Finally, deviating a bit from the theme, check out some of these fluid movies (via Slashdot)
Presenting the "other" side of academic physics, where people backstab and give lousy talks. Where people are sometimes lazy or incompetent, and the best don't get the credit or the job. From the perspective of someone lucky enough to have landed a tenure-track professorship.
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Cool engine. I am reminded of an experiment that needed a huge capacitor to supply the current. The capacitor was a building size collection of plates. It was filled with oil.
When there was a problem, someone was sent down in diving apparatus to fix it as the volume of oil was so large. Turns out that a problem one day was an "open" circuit that left a charge on some of the plates.
The way I remember it, when they hauled the diver back out of the thing he refused to go into it anymore.
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