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I eat Fruit & Fibre breakfast cereal regularly. It contains cereal flakes, bits of banana, bits of coconut, nuts and, of course, raisins.
I have the problem that, when I eat, the raisins sink, and I have a raisin-free cereal followed by about 20 raisins by themselves.
First I thought you could
counter this using a lava-lampesque system - heat the bottom of the bowl so that things go up and down in it due to heat rising and cold falling. But I would not like warm cereal. A design of more complexity is needed.
So, I thought, what about the technique they use to find dead bodies in water? They make a loud noise, and the bodies float up (as in Tom Sawyer). Why not do this with my cereal (although without the dead bodies)? Have the base of the bowl play a specific frequency note (preferably very quietly) so that the raisins float up to the top.
Hey presto, I have mixed-up cereal!
Fruit Chute
Fruit_20Chute
by me. Deals with in-box, rather than in-bowl, settling. [calum, Dec 07 2005]
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Um, have you tried stirring...? |
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You could inject each raisin with a tiny air bubble prior to eating. |
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I like [2 fries] bubble idea, heh. But raisins could be injected during processing at the cereal factory. ...On the fence with the frequency thing. |
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Wow...that's the first time I've seen literary reference to the practice of firing a cannon over a body of water to make dead bodies float...against my will I must (+) this. |
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Did you know that the cannon thing is only an old wive's tale? |
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How in the world they came up with it, I dont know.... |
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You can stun or even kill fish with loud noises (hence dynamite fishing). Perhaps someone misunderstood an instance of that. |
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It's not so much loud noises as intense shock waves. A 7700 m/s detonation velocity overloads lateral lines and ruptures swim bladders. |
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I don't want any HE that close to my breakfast - 7km/sec is going to spray milk everywhere.
Bun for the Twain reference - there are lots of odd superstitions in the books, but also some neat observations - like when Huck in drag is "outed" as a male because of his throwing action. |
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