Sunday, November 2, 2008

My roommate is Bill Nye?

If you take the ice tray/bin/thingummy out of the freezer and put it on the kitchen table while you have friends over for dinner, you too can observe science at work! See, at room temperature, ice melts. And when you put it back into the freezer, all that water will re-freeze, fusing the disparate ice cubes into one ginormous lump! If you're lucky, you can stealthily observe while an innocent victim demonstrates more science by trying to get pieces of ice out of this frozen mass. As clearly shown, forces wrought by human hands, no matter the angle, are not strong enough to break the pieces loose from the whole. Chunks of skin are actually likely to break loose first. Finally, should the innocent victim be unwilling to retrieve and use a hammer on the ice mass, the entire thing will have to be dumped out. Needless to say, our victim does not get any ice. Cut, scraped, and bruised fingers, yes. But no ice.

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