this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2024
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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Gyroscopes, gyroscopic procession, density separation, centripetal force, induction, magnetism, Coriolis effect....

Turns out spinning things really fast is amazing!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but that's not nearly as funny as oversimplifying it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Spin science!

We should take one of those ballistic jelly torsos, and put it into a massive gyroscope and spin it see what happens

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

My hypothesis is: SQUISH!!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Spin Doctors a Mythbusters-esque show about spinning things amazingly fast.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Built a large centrifuge, buy a high speed camera, lights and random junk and watch that Youtube money rain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

... yea that would probably work. Like that hydraulic press guy that just squishes stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Some of the worst lab accidents involve imbalanced centrifuges. The rotors essentially explode when they fail. Making a centrifuge that you could film the contents of sounds like it would lack the proper shielding to contain a failure.

I wouldn't trust the average youtuber to know just how dangerous such a setup could be.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

So what you're saying is that the show has a built-in potential for extra drama/explosions and amazing destruction footage that could be greatly monetized?

Sold.

"We're the Spin Doctor, we spin things real fast so you don't have time. Stuff may explode and our only garantee is that we'll capture the footage and show it to you."