As Smart As You Are, I Bet You Didn't Know...

[Petros]

Glass is a liquid with a high viscosity--it sticks to itself really, REALLY well. It's like oil, only much thicker.

Try leaving glass on a sawhorse for a few years; it starts sagging.

 

[Mainframeguy]

actually I did know this - we're all going to rush out and replace our windows now before they start dripping (I think it takes in excess of 20,000 years or something though so don't sweat it!)

 

[Graebob]

replace our windows now before they start dripping

so how i feel when i'm drunk is true!

 

[Alex_is_Axel]

what about "I"? .. what scotish and northerners say .. surely thats she shortest sentance .. lol

Alex

 

[Ded Morozh]

Glass is a liquid, it just moves very slowly. This was used as a plot device in a book I once read, but the title for which have since forgotten...

Also, the sentence "Go". "go" is the verb, it has an implied subject of "you"

 

[SPeedY_B]

what about "I"? .. what scotish and northerners say .. surely thats she shortest sentance .. lol

Alex

That's "aye"

 

[MdSalih]

...
There is only one place you can put your right hand so your left hand can't touch it...

Wonder where that is...

MdSalih

 

[Henyman]

hold you right arm out sideways very straight + then try to touch your hand

 

[GoNz0]

right hand on left elbow, just make sure no 1 is watching, looks like a royal wave

glass = liquid, i never knew that yes im wet after taking speedys advice and walking through the glass door, but the glass turned to red water


/que tunnel vision

 

[Funkyb]

The crossbow/welshman thingy in York is if they are walking on the wall and only if you are born in the walls of York. Hence the hospital is outside the walls!

 

[Lee]

I forget off-the-top of my head the thing about glass running, it don't take 20,000 years though.

A lot of stain glass windows do this too. I remember reading about this from a book written by Magnus Pike , the guy who used to move his arms around a lot. I must hunt that book down for the correct word. I havent read it since 1988, so going to be a long hunt.

 

[ShepsCrook]

2 spots the left hand can't touch the right one, I'm sure you could truly say an infinite amount of spots, but put your right arm out straight, and try to touch with your left hand. Can't do it can you! And if you can, you're a freak of nature. The other spot is the left elbow, along with some parts of our forearm.

But I already knew about the glass thing.

 

[ThePatriot]

We were actually discussing the glass/liquid thing at work the other day. it's totally true, if you check out a very old houses windows(100yrs+, if you can find one) you'll see the distortion looking thru, and if you actually took a micrometer to it, it would be thicker at the bottom vs. the top. Just watch those digital micrometers, don't wanna see anyone get electrocuted sticking it in that liquid.

 

[ElementalDragon]

uuh....... ThePatriot. that could also be the way they used to make the glass. One way they used to do it almost never got a perfectly flat, even piece of glass. The way i think they do it now, since i don't remember the other way they used to make glass, is floating the glass. Which means they let the melted sand and stuff float on top of, if i remember correctly, molten metal.

 

[ThePatriot]

Yes, it could be the way they made it, you're correct. Chances are if it's very old and coming loose from its frame on top, then it's due to gravity, not manufacture. You should have your share of old buildings to test the theory on in Lehighton, tho! I know we do up here in Scranton!

 

[the_music_man]

we learned about this in class buts its debatable. we thought its a supercooled liquid ]while our book said its an amorphous solid.

 

[Bucky Badger]

We were actually discussing the glass/liquid thing at work the other day. it's totally true, if you check out a very old houses windows(100yrs+, if you can find one) you'll see the distortion looking thru, and if you actually took a micrometer to it, it would be thicker at the bottom vs. the top. Just watch those digital micrometers, don't wanna see anyone get electrocuted sticking it in that liquid.

Look at anything in a house thats 100yrs old everything will be thicker at the bottom.

 

[ThePatriot]

Look at anything in a house thats 100yrs old everything will be thicker at the bottom.

How true!

 

[Bucky Badger]

Well, i'm pretty tired, i'm gonna splash some glass on my face to wake up. lol that whole thing is interesting tho.

 

[gonaads]

We were actually discussing the glass/liquid thing at work the other day. it's totally true, if you check out a very old houses windows(100yrs+, if you can find one) you'll see the distortion looking thru, and if you actually took a micrometer to it, it would be thicker at the bottom vs. the top. Just watch those digital micrometers, don't wanna see anyone get electrocuted sticking it in that liquid.

Just remove the pane of glass from it's frame and turn it upside down then in another hundred years it will be as it was.