Prince Rupert's Drops

Also know as Rupert's Balls or Dutch Tears.

Prince Rupert's Drops (PRDs) are pieces of molten glass that have been quickly dropped into cold water. The resulting piece of hard glass has many unusual properties. These unusual properties are the result of the PRD cooling so quickly. First a hard outside shell forms (in black). Inside of this shell the glass is still molten. As this molten glass cools down, it contracts, therefore putting more and more strain on the outside shell. As a result, the PRD becomes a giant bomb waiting to shatter. Fortunately, the big glass bulb is almost impossible to break. But wait... There is a catch... Since the entire PRD is linked together AND it is under a ton of stress, if you break off just one piece of it, the entire thing will go booooom. Since the tail is extremely fragile, when you break it, the entire thing fractures into minuscule pieces. Traveling from the break point, the fracture travels at about 3708.84 miles per hour. That means that it would take 1.829143344011 hours for the fracture to travel all the way around the moon, 6.71395908155 hours to travel around the earth, and 30.8822 days to travel around the sun.WOW! That's far! Now I am going to test that PRDs are real by melting sugar into a form of glass. Unfortunately, candy is not glass and it is not hard enough to resist the extreme pressure of itself cooling and did not make proper PRDs.

The mixture at the beginning

Using Grams, the proper scientific unit.

It's viciously viscous.

And HOT!

 VVV and HOTTER! WOW!

The bubbles are filled with water vapor, which is, contrary to the popular belief, 100%  transparent.

 Crackle pop as it hardens.

Tendrils of... BURNED CANDY!!!

The Pure Unburned Candy! A medium quantity. Temp. about 130°C.

A lot less than unburned, medium quantity and speed.

Purely Burned Candy, large quantity, medium speed. Temp. about 150°C.

Large quantity,  Quickly

This one is my favorite. Small quantity, slowly

 In water.

Very small quantity, quickly.

All of them together.

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Suspensionationizing

Today I built a model of a suspension bridge

Its suggested placement

All details are respected

Down to the wire

These are the parts of a suspension bridge.

Suspension bridges.

Suspension bridges are bridges that are distribute their weight evenly through smaller wires to the big wires to the edges and tower of the bridge.  

When building bridges like these, the architect must be careful with its aerodynamics. The most famously badly designed bridge in the history of the world was the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. My bridge reduces these risks  by having an extremely thin, but ultra strong road (namly balsa wood)

6 Most Famous Suspension Bridges of the World

• Golden Gate Bridge

Connects San Francisco to California's northern counties. It is 2,737 meters long and 227 meters high.

• Pearl Bridge

 Links the city of Kobe on the mainland of Honshu to Iwaya on Awaji Island, in Japan. It is 3,911 meters long.

• Brooklyn Bridge

Connects Manhattan and Brooklyn. It is 1,825 meters long and 83 high.

• Clifton Suspension Bridge

Crosses the Avon Gorge. It is 412 meters long and 75 meter above the gorge.

• Capliano Suspension Bridge

Crosses the Capilano River in North Vancouver, British Columbia. It is 140 metres long and 70 metres above the river.

• Great Belt Bridge

Runs between Danish islands of Zealand and Funen. It is 18 kilometers long.

The Hound of the Basketballs

A.K.A The Hound of the Baskervilles.

This story was written by the Scottish physician (no, not basketball player ) and writer Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle. He was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1902 he wrote a pamphlet called The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct, to support the British cause in the Boer War. Because of this work, he was knighted  by King Edward VII. The Boer War was a war between South Africa and Great Britain for the liberation of South Africa. It was fought from the October 11, 1899 until May 31, 1902. After the war Doyle wrote a book called The Great Boer War. However, today Doyle is most noted for his authorship of the Stories of Sherlock Holmes (56 Short Stories and 4 Novels.) Outside of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle wrote many other short stories.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is set in 1889 in London and on the Grimpen Mire. Sherlock Holmes is confronted by a murder almost more puzzling that he can solve: a gigantic ghostly hound has been rumored to have killed Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles' only known heir, Sir Henry, inherits the Baskerville Estate, but legend puts it that the Hound will try to kill off all of the Baskerville line! Unfortunately, Holmes is occupied with another crime in London so he sends his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson to keep Sir Henry safe...

I enjoyed this story because it was filled with so many red herrings that I didn't know which person was the real evil person. In fact, even Watson didn't even suspect the wrongdoer until the very end of the story, he kept persisting after an innocent. Even once Holmes came into play, the dynamic duo was finding a lot of trouble in apprehending the suspected miscreant.
So, of course it was very exciting tale to read. 

Technology?

The first question we must ask ourselves when discussing technology is: What is technology? Or, more importantly, what is "Modern Technology"? Anybody can go ahead and say "Grunt make fiwah. Grunt make technawlogy", but in our modern eyes, technology is stuff such as, say, the Iphone 5. Now, we can make a scale from 1-20 for technology(1 being the worst and 20 being the best.) Modern technology can be used in a positive fashion (such as a calculator which rates as a 20), but it can also be used in an extremely negative fashion such as drones. Drones were once called radio controlled model airplanes and were a lot of fun to use. Now drones are, in theory, just a tool used by the government to eliminate danger. In the world that calls itself REALITY they are ruthless tools used to annihilate the population of the world. They are the very limits of our scale. What I mean by that is that they are the (most assuredly) worst part of technology. For example we have our president and his trigger happiness on the drones joystick. "Die person Dieeeee!" There are so many people that have died due to drones, the Government won't even say how many!

But...There is always a good side. Technology can do all sorts of things. Technology can make Pie! We can calculate all sorts of mathish things! YOU CAN SEE THIS!!!!!!!!

But in my opinion, the bad outweighs the good. Although it is possible for you to read this, most people are stuck on their computers, or their tablets, or their phones, or their somethings, and they probably can't remember the last time they went outside just to have fun. They should go outside, ride their bike, even walk down the street, just to enjoy the world.

We could get rid of all technology....

But if we got rid of all technology, we would be stuck somewhere in a cave, going "Grunt. Me cold." So as you can plainly see, that is not a solution. But what is? Trying to enjoy the world, not on a screen, but in REALITY.

My Thanks to +Eric Schultz for the idea of this post. Be sure to check out his blog The Occasional CEO

EVILE

So...

Pie-man owns a Minecraft server. Minecraft is a sandbox indie originally created by the Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published by Mojang. There are many  people on this server. All of these people spend a large chunk of time building amazing structures, such at pyramids with flickering lights or wooden houses built on top of gigantic trees (as you can see here)

A few weeks ago, one of the players (let's call him pie-player) logged on to this said server and destroyed most of these amazing said structures. That time it was an accident, Pie-player was trying to destroy something he built and he accidentally blew up everyone else's. Then, five days after that, an unknown player (lets call him Evil-pie) logged on the server and blew EVERYTHING up, even my wonderful house.  I really liked my house. It had a Lollipop on top of it.

This time the destruction was not an accident.the entire world was completely obliterated. Fortunately both times Pie man had made a backup a few days before. Pie-man was able to clean up Evil-pie's damage.

If you want to join the server, go to www.blockcrafters.cbyte.co and reference this blog


Now...

What is "Evil"?... Is "Evil" just doing something "baaaaaaaaad"? Or is "Evil" hurting someone (mentally or physically) intentionally? Or is it a mix of the two?


As Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore once said "Evil is a strong word" and so it is. You can't really say that to just anybody,very few people are really evil. An evil person who has done a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad thing intentionally. For example, Hitler was an evil person. As well as the b(insert 1000 a's here)d people, there are the people that don't do bad things intentionally, as Albert Einstein once said:
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. The Government of France, for example was almost as evil as Hitler during World War II. They didn't personally kill anyone, but they did ship off many people and allow  to die.

Victorian Crime and Punishment

The Victorian Edwardian times              22 January 1901

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Victoria's Final End

We have just learned that Queen Victoria a.k.a."The Empress of India" has died, after a long reign that began the 20th of June 1837, when the Queen turned eighteen years old.


The life of Victoria:
Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and  Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on the 24 May 1819. During her reign she enforced the idea of "punishing to stop crime", the notion that if you punished ALL crime, ALL crime would stop (plus which in the Victorian's perfect world most crimes should be punished by hanging). Unfortunately for her, the judges did not like this cruel concept of  punishment . They frequently prescribed hanging and then let the "criminal" go. The Victorians  really did punish everything, as we can see in this real document from our records:

WANTED

WILLIAM WILSON

The Crime: Stealing TURNIPS on the 29th of September

The Punishment: 1 month of solitary confinement.

Easter Egg:)

PREVIEW OF THE YEAR AHEAD

IN THE YEAR OF 1901

January 1 –The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia will federate as the Commonwealth of Australia. Edmund Barton will become the first Prime Minister.

February 14 – Edward VII will open his first parliament.

August 30 – Hubert Cecil Booth will patent an electric vacuum cleaner.

October 2 – The British Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, will be launched at Barrow-in-Furness.

November 9 – The Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (to be called George V) will become Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.

Rewind:Inventions

In The 19th Century

1800-01 High pressure steam engine: Richard Trevithick and Oliver Evans.

1801: Jacquard loom (loom controlled by a punched card): Joseph Marie Jacquard

1802: Arc lamp: Humphry Davy

1804: Morphine in Paderborn, Germany: Friedrich Sertürner.

1804: Railway steam locomotive: Richard Trevithick

1822 The pattern-tracing lathe completed by Thomas Blanchard.


1826: Friction Match: John Walker

1860: Light bulb (lasted 3 hours): Joseph Swan

1876: Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell.

1877: The first working phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison.

1878: Rebreather: Henry Fleuss

1879: Thomas Edison produced the first practical light bulb and was granted a U.S. patent.

1888: Wind turbines for grid electricity : Charles F. Brush

EYE

The eye!!!!