Tuesday, November 16, 2010

WTC Conspiracy


I'm all for conspiracy theories which is why I don't think they are awfully funny.
But no one looks at the actual science behind them.
Let's take the infamous Word Trade Centre conspiracy theory where the confederalist government brought down the towers with an incendiary mixture of gasoline, paper, explosives, nano-thermite and molten aluminium.
Now I don't want to get into an arguement with anyone here, because I know someone who knows someone who was in New York a couple of months before the fateful day, and that would be disrespectful to them, but its quite obvious to me why the buildings fell down - the answer is in the fenestration of the windows.
If they had windows that opened like french windows or double hung sash windows, then the towers wouldn't have popped like they did. You see the pressure built up inside them from the heat and rising air and simply caused the towers to burst like balloons because the pressure couldn't get out through the double glazed fixed windows, which couldn't be opened to let the pressure out.
So forget about all these pancake demolition theories and think of the science!

Light Extinguishes Fire


Look, you see, if you're trying to light a fire in daylight you can't see the flames as well as you can when it's night.
This explains why it's harder to light a bonfire in the daytime. Also light makes the fire burn with a lot more smoke, so it's always better to turn off the lights and draw the curtains when lighting a fire, because you'll get a much warmer and cleaner burn.
How many times do you find a bonfire that was burning perfectly well the night before, just a pile of smouldering ashes the following day?
That proves that light not only makes fires burn colder and smokier, but also extinguishes them.
This also explains why the light of the flames from a bonfire can cause itself to be extinguished a lot faster...

Green Sky Thinking


Why is the sky blue?
We all know the sky is blue, but why is it blue? Why shouldn't it be green or purple?
After all grass is green and nobody has any problem with that, do they?
And crab's blood is purple... Bet you didn't know that!