• @[email protected]
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        12 days ago

        Bees flying and tides are both well understood now. Tides have been for hundreds of years.

        I don’t know enough aerodynamics to describe how bumblebees fly

        Tides are caused by the sun’s and moon’s gravity attracting the Earth’s land and water.

        If you had just said tides, I would have presumed you were being sarcastic, but bumblebee flight wasn’t explained until fairly recently (within the last 25 years or so)

    • @[email protected]
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      63 days ago

      Liquids tend towards the deepest elevation on the fork, and if that’s a slot, it falls through.

      • @AnUnusualRelic
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        83 days ago

        Ah, it’s because you’re in a gravity field.

    • @espentan
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      33 days ago

      Correct, those slots act as viscosity dividers. Each slot decreases viscosity by a factor of 8.

      By contrast, the parabolic shape of the other instrument will result in an increase in viscosity.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 day ago

        Wait… That would turn soup into jello. Viscosity is flow/thickness correct? So a spoon would effect volume, not viscosity.