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Yes! With “Also sprach Zarathustra” (familiar song from 2001: A Space Odyssey) on the hydrophone. |
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Make a geocentric version! |
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Very very cool.
Is there a way to burn underwater without making a ton of bubbles? |
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Oh, and singing dolphins. “If I had just one last wish, I would like a tasty fish!” |
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//Is there a way to burn underwater without making a ton of bubbles// |
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Bubbles don't weigh much:) Try electric arc welding. |
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With a whirlpool black-hole that takes you into another part of the galaxy [+]. |
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nice one, [coprocephalous] |
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[tc] this is wonderful! (+) If built to scale, a tennis ball earth would be pretty hard to find in a Pacific size pool. Think of all the school tour groups we could get rid of! |
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schools of fish in a giant plastic torus to simulate the asteroid belt. |
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[phundug] - 'twould be better if every so often we could get the fish to collide and fracture. |
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Tennis ball? Try dust mote. |
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It wouldn't be *quite* that small. To get the solar system comfortably inside the pacific ocean (make the diameter of pluto about 5000 miles) you need to scale it down by a factor of around 1,500,000. This would make the sun about half a mile across and the earth about nine metres across. I still wouldn't go looking for it with a bunch of schoolkids in scuba gear though. |
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//make the diameter of pluto about 5000 miles/ He did, of course, mean "make the diameter of the orbit of Pluto about 5000 miles". |
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//I still wouldn't go looking for it with a bunch of schoolkids in scuba gear though// Particularly because the Earth would be moving about a mile a day. |
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//an underwater burning Sun// |
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...am i the only one who sees a distinct problem with this concept??... |
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Tricky but not impossible [daaisy] - half a mile across really would be a feat of engineering though. |
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daaisy, have you not seen underwater flares? |
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If Earth were reduced to the size of a pea, Jupiter would be over a thousand feet distant and Pluto, at a mile and a half distant would be the size of a single bacterium. (I read that somewhere.) |
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The distances in the Solar System are truly awesome. |
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scale it on kind of a log scale, where 1000x = 3x, 100x=2x, etc. |
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<finds large metal ball, tethered> That's no moon... |
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Finds floating turd... Mmmm, space junk. |
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<aside> clever clogs... </a> |
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great and even better if we could work the song from the recent "hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy" film in, "So Long And Thanks For All the Fish"
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Dave arrives at the Planequarium, in autumn:
"Oh, my god, it's full of leaves!" |
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starfish for stars, perhaps? |
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For stars? Luminescent single-celled critters, surely? |
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School tour group: "Hey, Joey, guess what you can do in your suit!" |
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