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WTF is that stuff?? Does time lapse photography play a part?
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No camera trickery. It’s a non-newtonian fluid. At rest, it is liquid, but solidifies under any kind of force or impact.
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I’ve just never seen such a material return to liquid form so fast. it looks like Silly Putty on fast forward!
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It’s oftentimes known as oobleck, if that helps. As soon as you stop manipulating it, it goes liquid. The recipe I used when my kids were little was:
- one cup water;
- one and a half (or a little more if needed) cups corn starch.
You can add coloring to make it pretty.
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I’ve seen amazing videos of people running across water/cornstarch solutions. It’s amazing.
The fluid I’m most familiar with is blood, which is a Bingham fluid. The cells which make up ~50% of the volume stick together and behave like a solid until a finite shearing stress is applied. But it doesn’t take much shear stress. So running across a pool of blood will just get your feet wet.
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And likely some police detective following your bloody footprints.
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“You don’t understand, officer! Most of the donors gave their permission!”
It’s amazing how much I repeat myself.
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That is the funniest (and most unexpected thing) thing I’ve seen in a while!
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at first i thought, “oh that’s hilarious. i want one.” and then suddenly i thought “oh, no, no i don’t!”
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So you’re playing prey?
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What is that from?
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I’m assuming:
Never got around to playing that one.
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So not a movie or tv show.
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Too bad for Jon that his personal idol wasn’t around to give him a long career in revisionist propaganda. Oh wait…
Maybe this belongs in the dumbest things we’ll read today.
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