Pointless ExperimentsPavlov's Frog writes: I once spent 20 minutes with my eyes closed to see what it was like being blind. I smashed my knee on the kitchen cupboard, and decided I'd be better off deaf as you can still watch television.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:00)
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Scalectrics into the mains.Not me but a friend. But at the age of 13, he decided he might get his scalectric cars running faster if he just wired the track up straight into a plug socket.
The result? Apparantly the car shot off the track and smashed against the wall, and then the track started levitating off the floor.
I dont believe him. For a start he's still alive :)
(, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 19:30, 3 replies)
Directly to the plug is AC anyway surely?So I can't see how that would work
(, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 19:42, closed)
Right...It wouldn't work. Even if he did run the house voltage through a rectifier to get the required DC, the fine little wires in the motor armature would have almost immediately popped. I will not even go into the requirements to levitate the track...
*Needs to go to work for Snopes...*
*Pedantic Shit, I Am!*
(, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 21:26, closed)
The Coandas effectA coil of copper wire can be made to levitate if a current is run through it. Are Scalextric tracks copper?
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Bob Todd whee, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 13:07,
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