gravity acts more effectively on cold things....

drop a fridge from the empire state building at precisely the same moment as a hot air balloon and the fridge will land fractionally before the hot air balloon. you can apply this to almost everything. except frogs. and umbrellas. and other things.

Posted By: Tombs on June 7th 2011 at 14:15:54

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Why does my lunchtime sausage roll (Greggs, Central Leeds Branch) seem to weigh more (General Chat) - tudders, Jun 7, 14:11:49
- gravity acts more effectively on cold things.... (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 7, 14:15:54
  - If you threw a cat off the 20th floor, it would suffer less harm than if you threw it from (General Chat) - tudders, Jun 7, 14:20:54
    - not if you threw it like a baseball pitcher (General Chat) - Tombs, Jun 7, 14:26:03
      - or in a fridge. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Jun 7, 14:26:36
- Heat rises (General Chat) - Clean Shirt, Jun 7, 14:13:45
  - Clearly, but it's not losing something when it's hot, which it later regains (General Chat) - tudders, Jun 7, 14:18:35
    - It's just denser, not heavier (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jun 7, 14:24:54
      - I'm going to weigh the fucker tomorrow. (General Chat) - tudders, Jun 7, 14:32:51
    - It's all in your head (General Chat) - Old Git, Jun 7, 14:20:42
  - No, heated air rises (n/m) (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Jun 7, 14:15:32
    - Exactly the hot air within the sausage roll is almost certainly causing this (General Chat) - Clean Shirt, Jun 7, 14:25:13
  - fact (n/m) (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Jun 7, 14:14:00

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