Fringe Science
This listing is for the entire series of Fringe science experiment inspired iconography art prints. “Warning: An Experiment of Great Importance in Progress.” Collect all your favorite Fringe science posters and show your friends and family that you believe in the future.
I may just need to build another wall in my house or lab or mad scientist den so I can hang all these up.
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So, now that I’ve seen the promo for Elementary I feel free to list every reason for wich I dislike it.
Most of them are related to my absolute love for Sherlock and European locations (London is one of the main characters in the BBC production) but probably I’d appreciate the american series too if they had genderbended Sherlock (or even both). As such, it seems only an easy fake feminism. Moreover, I find it hard to reconcile Lucy Liu with the “standard” mental picture of even-tempered Watson…
And Jonny Lee Miller is just the wrong kind of maniac.
PS: I’m really biased, so I’ll watch it in any case: maybe forgetting it’s a Sherlock Holmes adaptation, it will prove to be a decent show.
PPS: And US has alredy had a good Sherlock Holmes series…
The Physics (and Economics) of the Scrooge McDuck ‘Gold Coin Swim’
At The Billfold, Matt Powers used some simple calculus to calculate exactly how much money you’ll need to aquire in life to replicate Scrooge McDuck’s gold coin vault swim:
“In most money circles (insider tip: “money circles” is a term used by only the most elite investors), wealth is measured exclusively by how closely one can recreate this famed animation. It has come to represent success in America and anything less than doing the backstroke amongst a sea of Earth’s rarest metal should be considered an abject failure. A main problem of this measure, however, is that there is no agreed-upon Scrooge McDuck quantity of gold. In order to give the young investor a goal to shoot for, and to clear up this age-old question once and for all, the following is a precise judgment of exactly how money you need to be successful. “
Hint: It’s a crapton (about $31 billion with inflation). But of course, this exercise in futility wasn’t enough for me. I’ve always wondered something else: Even if he could dive into it (which Peter Griffin painfully reminded us is impossible, as it’s a pile of solid metal), how is he not crushed under the weight of gold?
For the sake of me only having to do easy math, I’ll take Matt Powers’ money calculations as accurate. If, as in the video above, Scrooge dives from one pile to another, he will be under the weight of at least 5 vertical feet (~152 cm) of gold. If Scrooge’s body is 36 cm tall and maybe 15 cm wide, a realistic size for a duck, the column of gold pressing down on his body will be the volume of an elliptical cylinder. My back-of-the-envelope calculation puts that at around 65,000 cm3 of gold.
But it’s randomly stacked gold coins, not a solid mass, so let’s assume that 10% of the volume is air. That brings the volume of gold to 58,500 cm3. Pure gold is very heavy, with a density of 19.32 g/cm3, which means the column of gold that Scrooge dives under would weigh 2,492 pounds.
It’s essentially the same as getting run over by a car. He’d be flat. Flat broke(n).
Previously: The cartoon laws of physics!
No love for Ant man
HAAAAAAAAAAANK LET ME HUG YOU
Also, this needs to have a million reblogs.
There there Hank, you’ll get in next time…
OH GOD!!!! Who made this? They knew how to give me feels damnit!! (Awesome Hank cosplay is awesome btw)
Ant man is going to start his OWN team. They will be called the Antvengers. All of the other members will be ants that he dresses up like the Avengers. Captain Antmerica, Iron Ant, Hawkant, Thor-ax, Black Ant, the Antcredible Ant.
