My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury
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that's so unfair. you could have a lovely home decoration that also tells you the temperature...
@paul_ipv6 Calder would be proud
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@saraislet our partner won't let us get a hydrogen maser
@atax1a yeah what's up with that?
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My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury
I was starting to come up with a great plan! Estimating about 30 liters, which is about 400kg, which our floors could handle, and the price would be comparable to a bathroom remodel
@saraislet Perhaps you just need to present your project in more plausible terms.
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My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury
I was starting to come up with a great plan! Estimating about 30 liters, which is about 400kg, which our floors could handle, and the price would be comparable to a bathroom remodel
@saraislet
Wait I want to hear more about this planWhat kind of pump do you need? How tall and how wide is a 30L mercury fountain? Were you thinking one spout or many? How will you keep out contaminants? Are there reactions you need to worry about?
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@atax1a yeah what's up with that?
@saraislet aPPARENTLY we don't need time to 10-16 precision
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My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury
I was starting to come up with a great plan! Estimating about 30 liters, which is about 400kg, which our floors could handle, and the price would be comparable to a bathroom remodel
@saraislet I said you can have Galinstan, but you didn't like a liquid that wets surfaces.
You know, like water? The stuff regular fountains are made of?
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My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury
I was starting to come up with a great plan! Estimating about 30 liters, which is about 400kg, which our floors could handle, and the price would be comparable to a bathroom remodel
Calder's mercury fountain in Barcelona:
https://youtu.be/Q35_zuffGqk -
Calder's mercury fountain in Barcelona:
https://youtu.be/Q35_zuffGqkwhile i'm playing devil's advocate, perhaps it would be cheaper just to fly to barcelona to see it? check out some gaudi, enjoy the amazing food.
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@saraislet aPPARENTLY we don't need time to 10-16 precision
@atax1a "need" I meanβ¦
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@saraislet I said you can have Galinstan, but you didn't like a liquid that wets surfaces.
You know, like water? The stuff regular fountains are made of?
anyone could have a fountain with water. maybe a chocolate fountain?
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@saraislet
Wait I want to hear more about this planWhat kind of pump do you need? How tall and how wide is a 30L mercury fountain? Were you thinking one spout or many? How will you keep out contaminants? Are there reactions you need to worry about?
@spacehobo@saraislet @spacehobo @smolwaffle you better not have any metal parts anywhere near mercury. Otherwise you have no more mercury and no more metal.
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@saraislet@infosec.exchange I think you shouldn't mess around with mercury, as fun as that sounds.
@KitsuneVixi I was going to be very careful!
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anyone could have a fountain with water. maybe a chocolate fountain?
@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 chocolate mercury??
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@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 chocolate mercury??
chocolate mercury. is that a chocolate statue of freddy mercury?
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@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 chocolate mercury??
@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 Paul, help me out here, a girl has needs
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Calder's mercury fountain in Barcelona:
https://youtu.be/Q35_zuffGqk@saraislet Stuff like that always freaks me out because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui68zl1BYeg
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@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 Paul, help me out here, a girl has needs
would be pretty cool to have chocolate that tells you how hot it is.
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would be pretty cool to have chocolate that tells you how hot it is.
@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 and if you hold it against your skin, it will tell you how hot you are
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@sophieschmieg @paul_ipv6 and if you hold it against your skin, it will tell you how hot you are
i'm easy. anyone holding chocolate to themselves looks hot.
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My wife doesn't want me to make a fountain out of mercury
I was starting to come up with a great plan! Estimating about 30 liters, which is about 400kg, which our floors could handle, and the price would be comparable to a bathroom remodel
@saraislet As a, admittedly reluctant, user of a mammalian nervous system I'm not sure that load bearing capacity is the primary constraint when it comes to plans involving domesticating 400kg of mercury.
There's just something about methylation being the only thing between you and horrible death that inspires a certain amount of caution.
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