Canaries

[Canaries]

Hello, I am Canaries and I am new here. I like Snooker as it takes a lot of skill and the atmosphere is always good. I like the look of this forum and hope to enjoy posting here many times. Thanks.

[Phired]

Hi Canaries and welcome to the forum.

[ferret]

Greetings Canaries http://www.computermodding.co.uk/images/canaries.jpg I said we'd get some birds in here soon

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if only there was a jpg of some birds custard - we could keep this goin a tad longer.

[ferret]

Custard is a non-newtonian liquid - So what does this mean???

Well here we go - Custard is cornstarch with some flavouring added. Cornstarch is a non-newtonian fluid. It acts just like a liquid if you treat it gently. If you hit it with a spoon (e.g. drive the spoon into the liquid) it turns solid!!!

So filling a speedbump with this liquid would allow cars to pass over it as long as they travel slowly. If the car's going too fast, the bump becomes solid under the wheel and the speeding driver gets a bump.

Now go mixup about 2 tablespoons of custard powder and 2 tablespoons of milk in a cup and hit it with a spoon to experience a Non-Newtonian liquid.

John Tickle from Branick science abuse on SKY tv demonstrated the effects off custard being a non neutronian liquid by filling up a swimming pool and literaly walking on custard :-) at the end of the demonstration he stopped on the custard to prove it wasn't a trick and got his leg stuck.........just to prove the harder he pulled the stiffer the custard got :-)

Anyway I did find this pic of a wonam making custard for you :-)

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got the T-Shirt ferret, I used cornflour in Uni and had mucho fun filling balloons with it and making the very first of the stress-relievers that started selling very well soon after. Note to self: Patent(ly obvious £££)

Maybe we could have a Video Vault started here, allege it was for 'amazing shots' the members have played, camera phone footage of meeting Pro players on Tour or in a Brewers Fayre etc ect *.... then whack them with some freaky footage of cornflour conundrums (try riteshirt for a whiteley end of programme teaser)

I saw Tickle on Braniac, Mr Hammond's really good too, if he didn't have the production crew around him, I think he'd be worrying he'd be sucked down and disappear to the bottom of the swimming pool - RIP style.

The guy I demonstrated the Cornflour mysteries on (Gold Label through a straw night!) at Sheff Uni, made him think this 'ballon de liquide' was nice, fluffy and soft - blah blah schmooze a la daniels, then smacked him over the head to the sever merryment of those in the room. The anaesthetic he'd already supped quelled the pain soon after! (Corn Starch molecules = V.Large compared to water makes then slide past smoothly at low speeds, rupture and crack if it moves too fast - try letting it pour out then cut it with scissors! stick your fist in and pull the bowl up using just the viscosity too)

About the Speed Bump, neat idea, I thought of the same thing too; probably too fiddly to work out the physics to cope with the huge variety of vehicle weights from hairdryer scooters to artics. I'd guess industrial strength inflatable versions that would only rely on the speed of air moving within it - it would certainly be popular with commercial drivers, every service of a London Cab entails a suspension refit, those cars cost a rediculous amount as it is - £69k I think. Multiple installations would would work better than the horizontal lines that attempt to fool us into thinking we're going faster than we are; or make divvies who speed realisehow fast they ARE going.

* http://www.brewersfayre.co.uk/vouche...05_voucher.pdf
£5 voucher valid till next month, then they'll just issue another

bring on the next JPEG ferret; or...... make an animated gif of Kerrr-razy Cornflour! (or delegate the job to someone with the time to spare!)