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Homemade Centrifuge Solves Pressing Questions of Our Time

Posted April 13, 2010 8:02 AM

From Boing Boing:

Would a lava lamp work properly on Jupiter? Google software engineer Neil Fraser built his own centrifuge in order to find out, using an Android phone app to measure the G forces. The centrifuge is a genuinely terrifying device. The lights dim when it is switched on. A strong wind is produced as the centrifuge induces a cyclone in the room.

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04/13/2010 9:55 AM

More importantly, would it work on Ur...

Oh, never mind.

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04/14/2010 1:49 PM

And the point of this exercise is.....?

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