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RE: BBC NEWS | UK | How does Dyson make water go uphill?
Topic: Miscellaneous 12:40 pm EDT, May 22, 2003

Decius wrote:
] ] A set of four glass ramps positioned in a square clearly
] ] show water travelling up each of them before it pours off
] ] the top, only to start again at the bottom of the next
] ] ramp.
] ]
] ] It is a sight which defies logic, and has become probably
] ] the most memorable image of this year's show.
] ]
] ] Mr Dyson says his inspiration was a drawing by the Dutch
] ] artist MC Escher (he of Gothic palaces where soldiers are
] ] eternally walking upstairs, and of patterns where birds
] ] turn into fish).

Neat! I wonder if there's a movie of it on the web somewhere. I'd like to see it in motion.

RE: BBC NEWS | UK | How does Dyson make water go uphill?



 
 
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