I think Stephen Hawking said he was inspired to study theoretical physics after hearing Shatner's version of Rocket Man.

why can't we be friends?

I would have gone with a train analogy

In the vacuum, what would happen if it had empty space in the upper part of the tube? Would the liquid would just fall out of the lower end with no bubble going up the lower opening to fill the space? It would be interesting to see if that's the case.

Wouldn't that be wrong if a siphon works in a vacuum? http://science.slashdot.org/co...

It could be, according to this guy

Illum

It's been suggested that it's just alcohol mixed with a highly absorbent tapioca starch sold as "N-Zorbit M", so at best, it would down into starch and alcohol.

I think that's mostly because of the fuser warming up. It has a hollow teflon coated roller with a 9" long lightbulb inside it to heat it. I don't remember them being more than 250-500W though. I used to repair copiers and printers.

Those old rotary and touch-tone phones from the telephone company in the 70s/80s. I think we had the same one from 1976 to the early 90's, and that thing took a lot of abuse from three kids. It was constantly being yanked off the counter but the handset cord, and the plastic cover would come off, but the thing was a tank. It never stopped working

Ocean Ranger?

There's no reason kids can't do both. There's something to be said for learning to understand and follow instructions. I really liked doing it as a kid. After that, I'd take it apart and make my own things. And now I don't have to call someone to put Ikea furniture together for me.

You'd be better off doing this -
http://gizmodo.com/how-to-use-...

just taping the lens from a $1 laser pointer onto your phone camera lens works well enough to play around with

I really think it's some kind of disorder/obsession - People that are obsessed with politics and can't help themselves from steering every discussion into "it's the other [evil] party's fault and I'm going to tell you why right now" This one guy I worked with didn't even care if his little jokes made sense. We were walking through a parking garage once, and we were startled by an SUV driving too fast around a corner. He said "Probably a liberal, Massachusetts plates! *chuckle*". Even the more obvious joke about the political bent of an SUV owner wouldn't be remotely funny. At least not to me, it's just unoriginal. He did have a good sense of humor at times, but a dig on democrats seemed to be his default.
He never said anything hateful, he was just very smug. He rarely went into angry rants about politics, but I would avoid conversation with him, because it would inevitably turn into a political discussion. He wasn't a troll, I think he was just preoccupied with politics, it was always at the forefront of his mind, and everything negative in the world could be attributed to liberal democrats.
(He was a libertarian in 2004, probably still is)

But if it's destroyed, somebody now has the problem of a 950,000 jar surplus of jelly. The whole PB/J balance is in jeopardy!