insane_alien

thanks guys i got it done now. i owe you all one.

what is an ITO? i looked it up on several websites but i can't seem to find anything that fits the context.

no one said the liquid had to be dead centre or that its made of a single type of glass. or that it even had to be glass in the first place.

just cos a part of the world isn't warming up doesn't mean that the world as a whole isn't. its a bit like looking at a rain drop suspended by an updraft and assuming that ALL raindrops are at that moment being suspended by updrafts.

well, if it ever got mass produced some would leak. i've seen leaky lava lamps.

probably didn't want all the illegal german porn that would have come with the computer.

i'm not too sure how this is supposed to work but i think a shot tower would work it better.

seems good but it is toxic so if it burst it wouldn't be very good.

way to burst the bubble swansont. are we not allowed to dream?

well, peanut oil could probably be made clear somehow(i'll have to look it up though). but people are probably going to want different coloured fluids and glasses anyway if this ever hits the market 'just cos it looks purty'

it would in theory. but you wouldn't get the best possible heat transfer.

i've just been reading up on this guy and if you follow his advice you will definitely become ill and possibly die. for instance 'raising the bodies pH to kill cancer' yeah if you raise it enough your organs won't function neither will you blood and any leftover bits that i don't know the name of.

there is a very simple mechanism for UV light from the sun to cause cancer. when a UV photon hits DNA it breaks a bond or two which alters the structure and information in the DNA sometimes this leads to cancer sometimes it just leads to cell death. happens the same way with chemicals except its a chemical reaction that causes alteration of the DNA

you would be better pumping the oil round a circuit than relying on convection you could achieve a better heat transfer rate with thinner glass and less oil

i can't see any mechanism for this working but you can try it anyway, it should be perfectly harmless and any skin irritation will only be temporary and can be sloved by rinsing with water for a few minutes. speculation alert!: perhaps it dehydrates he immediate area making it look smaller because the only times you are going to check is when you take it off? seems unlikely though.

ok, i'll hear him out. but it better be good.

yes, because UV light doesn't mess up DNA which can lead to cancerous growth if it hits the right bit. and hundreds of labs all over the world haven't confirmed this time and time again

its really + and its nice to see that i'm not struggling with an easy problem but a hard one.

awesome YT. i was looking around for fluids like that earlier i even considerded liquid metal alloys on the premise that they'd look damn awesome. the thermal expansivity might start being a problem but an 'air' gap would probably sort it out. air is in brackets because its more likely to be either a vacuum or an inert gas rather than air.

i've managed to get the second one (it was an integrating factor) but i can't seem to get the first one in the right form

god i feel dirty for doing this but i have a total mental block on two problems so i just need a point in the right direction. number 1 is: Find a solution of the differential equation Dy/Dx=(2x^2+y^2)/(2xy) (x>0 , y>0) which satisfies y=1 and x=1 and number 2 is: (1+x)Dy/Dx + 4y = 1/(x+1) (x (cannot equal sign) -1)

i'm not too sure what pressure it would have to be under but i still prefer a circulating fluid since you can then use a fluid that won't boil within the temperature range. thermal expansion is easier to counter than a phase change. it also eliminates some problems that a conducting salt solution would throw up. incidentally does anyone know what temperature bread toasts at? EDIT: ok so i've been looking around and i've found some values. i appears that the reaction starts around 155*C so we'll probably be looking at a fluid temp of around 200 *C this means water is a no-no sin it would require it to be at a pressure of 16 bar which would be dangerous if the toaster fell since it would shatter and explode from the fact that the water suddenly expands to 2000 times its origional volume. some sort of oil is probably in order here.

depends on the rate of conduction through the glass and its melting point. also on the boiling point of the solution although that can be controlled with pressure but then it starts getting chunky and ridiculously heavy.

sounds good but you would have to top up the salt every now and then as it is electrolysed out from the current. in addition, you have to account for pressure build ups (either to gases or solid build up fom the salt) and the fact that it will have a limited lifetime(maybe around 10000-100000 uses) also because of waste buildup and the electrodes dissolving/reacting which they would eventually do.

someone is definitely working on it. but it won't be aluminium when its done. even look at the startrek movie. its clearly a molecule. anyway, we're making plastics that have better strength to weight ratios.