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Empty bottles quickly with a whirlpool trick (2012) [video]

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Re: Empty bottles quickly with a whirlpool trick (2012) [video]

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post #16

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I was doing this in the mid eighties... think a teacher showed me it but can't remember... didn't have tv.

I'm pretty sure I saw it featured in an article in Highlights for Children during the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlights_for_Children

I learned it in australia many years ago from these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBw7k_8EbE

Re: Empty bottles quickly with a whirlpool trick (2012) [video]

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I feel like this is more than just air flow. You're adding energy into the bottle by causing the water to spin in a whirlpool. It seems like that energy would also help push the water out of the bottle through path of least resistance dynamics (the open end of the bottle).

The counter-argument there is that after you've swirled it, each water particle has to travel a longer path to get out of the neck, because it's corkscrewing rather than going in a straight line.

Except for the fact that those particles are moving faster (velocity)...

Re: Empty bottles quickly with a whirlpool trick (2012) [video]

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure I saw it featured in an article in Highlights for Children during the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlights_for_Children

I learned it in australia many years ago from these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBw7k_8EbE

Do Australians commonly say "elephant" to count seconds as the presenters do? In the U.S. it's usually "one-thousand" or "Mississippi". (I guess I can imagine that Australians wouldn't say "Mississippi"!)

Re: Empty bottles quickly with a whirlpool trick (2012) [video]

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I learned it in australia many years ago from these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBw7k_8EbE

Do Australians commonly say "elephant" to count seconds as the presenters do? In the U.S. it's usually "one-thousand" or "Mississippi". (I guess I can imagine that Australians wouldn't say "Mississippi"!)

or 'chimpanzee'!

Re: Empty bottles quickly with a whirlpool trick (2012) [video]

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There is a much faster way, using cavitation.. from Bill Beaty of the awesome http://amasci.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77gWkl0ZUC8

"Ooh, cool fancy ice cubes! They look like shards of broken glass!"

"That's 'cause they are shards of broken glass."

"...on second thought, I'm not really that thirsty."

Re: Empty bottles quickly with a whirlpool trick (2012) [video]

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I learned it in australia many years ago from these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBw7k_8EbE

Do Australians commonly say "elephant" to count seconds as the presenters do? In the U.S. it's usually "one-thousand" or "Mississippi". (I guess I can imagine that Australians wouldn't say "Mississippi"!)

I've never heard of "elephant", no. (Sydney here)

Re: Empty bottles quickly with a whirlpool trick (2012) [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The counter-argument there is that after you've swirled it, each water particle has to travel a longer path to get out of the neck, because it's corkscrewing rather than going in a straight line.

Except for the fact that those particles are moving faster (velocity)...

Yeah, they're going faster on a longer path. It's not immediately obvious which factor would win.
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