HawgWild: Gummy bears are gross and SHOULD be crushed at the bottom of the ocean.



Hit it with the pressure of a thousand atmospheres.

Saltwater gummys?

FTA: This might be the first time gummy bears have been destroyed in the name of science.

Nonsense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txVAsGQXmgs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAP2OnGTi9s

etc/

HawgWild: Gummy bears are gross and SHOULD be crushed at the bottom of the ocean.

obvious troll is obvious. The only people who dislike Gummy Bears have no soul.

Oo, missed a good one (even if it is tagged by that douche "eBaum").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUensqImzXM

Ocean pressure has energy that could be harvested with the right technology. A seemingly limitless energy source.

this is what happens to the Styrofoam cups, can't find a photo of what the gummi gears look like,

As a kid I experimented with microwaving tons of different candies. Melted gummy bears were great, but my favorite was zapping skittles until the insides were liquid while the shell remained intact, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Gummy bears are several magnitudes of coolness below the deep submersible guys who decorate styrofoam mannequin heads and send them down where they get squashed to about 20% of their original size.

Couldn't this be done on the surface? Can we not create 500 atmospheres of pressure?

jingks: Couldn't this be done on the surface? Can we not create 500 atmospheres of pressure?

Looks like these guys can simulate ocean depths up to 67,000 feet which is 30,000 PSI (2041 atm).

Though I guess this study is more about the underwater waves and the gummy bears are just a fun side project.

In my left hand, I hold an ordinary gummy bear.
In my right, the same gummy bear exposed to the pressures at the bottom of the South Pacific.

jingks: jingks: Couldn't this be done on the surface? Can we not create 500 atmospheres of pressure?

apparently not. really, think about it. what's the gauge on your tire inflator go up to? 150 psi? 300 psi? and who ever uses it to go even that far.

anotar: Gummy bears are several magnitudes of coolness below the deep submersible guys who decorate styrofoam mannequin heads and send them down where they get squashed to about 20% of their original size.

You know what's funny? they're gonna get all suited up with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of scientific equipment, they're gonna sail out until they're above the mariana trench and
dump 10 tons of gummy bears into the water...



And find out they float because they're made of oils.

/glass is a supercooled liquid not a solid

Precious Venus.....

jingks: jingks: Couldn't this be done on the surface? Can we not create 500 atmospheres of pressure?

Looks like these guys can simulate ocean depths up to 67,000 feet which is 30,000 PSI (2041 atm).

Though I guess this study is more about the underwater waves and the gummy bears are just a fun side project.

Well yeah...gotta get kids interested in science one way or another. But then at some point they need to graduate to something a little more risque....

Suicide bunny wasn't available ?

Nothing new here. I knew a Lt Cdr. that was in the DSV program back in the late 70's (including soem time on NR-1) and he told me about the Styrofoam cup thing. The reason it shrinks is because they are mostly air and the pressure simply squeezes out the bubbles in the foam. Gummy bears are a solid with no entrained air to speak of (that I can tell anyway) so they shouldn't lose any shape or size.

Boats losing depth control and broaching due to heavy seas is nothing new. We got sucked up once from 400' to the surface in less than 30 seconds once. Never had a chance to keep it down but we were under a hurricane (or the remnants of one anyway) and we knew that it was a risk that we might face and so we made sure that we were well outside of shipping lanes at the time just in case.

/not quite sure what they might expect to learn about subjecting the cell phones to those conditions though.

Why not release something long and stretchy to observe how it moves..Like a long strip of taffy..
Of course i'd love to see what a Stretch Armstrong would do! would he squish flat or turn into a ball?

urban.derelict: jingks: /glass is a supercooled liquid not a solid


OK - so glass is a liquid. Now you now have a geology challenge.


There are natural sources of glass. Pure glass. Top quality, highly refined, no crystalline structure what-so-ever volcanic glass.

They have centuries, even thousands of years, to 'flow'.

There are naturally occurring basins that would easily contain any liquid, in fact, they do. Every known liquid.

So, where are your glass lakes? Glass puddles? Glass mud? Can this liquid call glass form in pools at the bottom of the ocean? Why not? It's not water soluble. What geologic process prevents you from providing evidence of bodies of glass having collected in a lake or forming cascades and streams?

Now I'm becoming curious - at whan depth will bubble wrap rupture?

boomm: urban.derelict: jingks: /glass is a supercooled liquid not a solid


OK - so glass is a liquid. Now you now have a geology challenge.


There are natural sources of glass. Pure glass. Top quality, highly refined, no crystalline structure what-so-ever volcanic glass.

They have centuries, even thousands of years, to 'flow'.

There are naturally occurring basins that would easily contain any liquid, in fact, they do. Every known liquid.

So, where are your glass lakes? Glass puddles? Glass mud? Can this liquid call glass form in pools at the bottom of the ocean? Why not? It's not water soluble. What geologic process prevents you from providing evidence of bodies of glass having collected in a lake or forming cascades and streams?

The fact that - along the way - it would mix with other debris which also behaves like glass under similar circumstances ?

boomm: urban.derelict: jingks: /glass is a supercooled liquid not a solid


OK - so glass is a liquid. Now you now have a geology challenge.


There are natural sources of glass. Pure glass. Top quality, highly refined, no crystalline structure what-so-ever volcanic glass.

They have centuries, even thousands of years, to 'flow'.

There are naturally occurring basins that would easily contain any liquid, in fact, they do. Every known liquid.

So, where are your glass lakes? Glass puddles? Glass mud? Can this liquid call glass form in pools at the bottom of the ocean? Why not? It's not water soluble. What geologic process prevents you from providing evidence of bodies of glass having collected in a lake or forming cascades and streams?

Duh, they are glass which means they are clear and you can't see them.

Public Savant: Now I'm becoming curious - at whan depth will bubble wrap rupture?

The big quarter sized ones or the ones about the size of an M&M?

Mr. Shabooboo: Why not release something long and stretchy to observe how it moves..Like a long strip of taffy..
Of course i'd love to see what a Stretch Armstrong would do! would he squish flat or turn into a ball?

Neither. Anything solid will not be affected. There might be some leakage of water into the goop inside it but when you bring it back up it will look pretty much the same.

Coming on a Bicycle: boomm: urban.derelict: jingks: /glass is a supercooled liquid not a solid


OK - so glass is a liquid. Now you now have a geology challenge.


There are natural sources of glass. Pure glass. Top quality, highly refined, no crystalline structure what-so-ever volcanic glass.

They have centuries, even thousands of years, to 'flow'.

There are naturally occurring basins that would easily contain any liquid, in fact, they do. Every known liquid.

So, where are your glass lakes? Glass puddles? Glass mud? Can this liquid call glass form in pools at the bottom of the ocean? Why not? It's not water soluble. What geologic process prevents you from providing evidence of bodies of glass having collected in a lake or forming cascades and streams?

The fact that - along the way - it would mix with other debris which also behaves like glass under similar circumstances ?

That reminds me of a first grade science question. Where does all the white go when snow melts?

Shoulda used gummy worms. At least then you could catchy gummy fish...

PETA is gonna be so pissed when they hear about this.

/Won't someone think of the Gummys?

Came in here to correct the dude who failed basic chemistry, but I see other people have already jumped in on the glass = liquid idiocy.

boomm: Coming on a Bicycle: boomm: urban.derelict: jingks: /glass is a supercooled liquid not a solid


OK - so glass is a liquid. Now you now have a geology challenge.


There are natural sources of glass. Pure glass. Top quality, highly refined, no crystalline structure what-so-ever volcanic glass.

They have centuries, even thousands of years, to 'flow'.

There are naturally occurring basins that would easily contain any liquid, in fact, they do. Every known liquid.

So, where are your glass lakes? Glass puddles? Glass mud? Can this liquid call glass form in pools at the bottom of the ocean? Why not? It's not water soluble. What geologic process prevents you from providing evidence of bodies of glass having collected in a lake or forming cascades and streams?

The fact that - along the way - it would mix with other debris which also behaves like glass under similar circumstances ?

That reminds me of a first grade science question. Where does all the white go when snow melts?

Global Warming.

What a fine use of our tax dollars.

Heh, I'm sure they'll be in a container or net or something, but I get a funny mental image of them being eaten by fish on the way down.

Rattrap007: Shoulda used gummy worms. At least then you could catchy gummy fish...

boomm: Coming on a Bicycle: boomm: urban.derelict: jingks: /glass is a supercooled liquid not a solid


OK - so glass is a liquid. Now you now have a geology challenge.


There are natural sources of glass. Pure glass. Top quality, highly refined, no crystalline structure what-so-ever volcanic glass.

They have centuries, even thousands of years, to 'flow'.

There are naturally occurring basins that would easily contain any liquid, in fact, they do. Every known liquid.

So, where are your glass lakes? Glass puddles? Glass mud? Can this liquid call glass form in pools at the bottom of the ocean? Why not? It's not water soluble. What geologic process prevents you from providing evidence of bodies of glass having collected in a lake or forming cascades and streams?

The fact that - along the way - it would mix with other debris which also behaves like glass under similar circumstances ?

That reminds me of a first grade science question. Where does all the white go when snow melts?

The suburbs.

Link to Glass Wikipedia Article (new window)

/moving on

fanbladesaresharp: jingks: jingks: Couldn't this be done on the surface? Can we not create 500 atmospheres of pressure?

Looks like these guys can simulate ocean depths up to 67,000 feet which is 30,000 PSI (2041 atm).

Though I guess this study is more about the underwater waves and the gummy bears are just a fun side project.

Well yeah...gotta get kids interested in science one way or another. But then at some point they need to graduate to something a little more risque....

This is a *BAD* idea.

Think about it: If these things accidentally get left down there, they are likely to get eaten, and the last thing we need is some hyperactive megalodons hopped up on sugar and red dye #40, looking for their next High Fructose Corn Syrup fix.

I'm guessing it will end up like this...

boomm: urban.derelict: jingks: /glass is a supercooled liquid not a solid


OK - so glass is a liquid. Now you now have a geology challenge.


There are natural sources of glass. Pure glass. Top quality, highly refined, no crystalline structure what-so-ever volcanic glass.

They have centuries, even thousands of years, to 'flow'.

There are naturally occurring basins that would easily contain any liquid, in fact, they do. Every known liquid.

So, where are your glass lakes? Glass puddles? Glass mud? Can this liquid call glass form in pools at the bottom of the ocean? Why not? It's not water soluble. What geologic process prevents you from providing evidence of bodies of glass having collected in a lake or forming cascades and streams?

I'm just gonna play devil's advocate here. Weathering. It all gets ground down by time. Now, what do you find near and in and under lakes and oceans and stuff usually? That's right: sand. It's all turned into sand.

You can't spell glass without gas. Therefore, it is a gas. You want scientific proof? Fark you, nerd.