Pythagoras Cup (Greedy Cup) filled with Mercury
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Why not fill it with Vegetable Oil so that they won't die?
it would be a pretty cool aesthetic to use bio-luminescent plankton
the "upside" of the filling the bottom with mercury is moot.
From what I can see from the cup, even if the mercury stays at the bottom, the actual amount of wine filled would still be the same as the amount without the mercury in the cup (before being siphoned from the bottom)
Student: drinks cup and then fills it again
Pythagoras: Impossible
Mauro Molinero
*hold cup with an uncomfortable grip*
Pythagoras: “why are you such a burden?”
Zipity
student: drinks straight from the bottle
Pythagoras: *_stOP_*
Student: _Drinks from the hole in the bottom_
Pythagoras: *Why are you like this?*
poor Pythagoras
Student: *put's a plug in the bottom hole*
Pythagoras: *IMPOSSIBLE*
"The downside is that they would have poisoned themselves"
A small price to pay to outsmart Pythagoras
Pythagoras: well you see, since there's Mercury in the cup, there's less water, so the amount is pretty much the same ye smartasses
Something for Socrates then.
Rei D T yeah but you don’t need nearly as much mercury as they showed
@@drawbras No, Socrates drank hemlock, not mercury, and he drank that hemlock because he didn't worship Mercury.
According to @@reidt182 pythagros wins, he also succeeded in making you poison yourself. Well done.
Professor: “The story is that this cup was invented to make sure all the students got equal amount of drinks” Pythagoras: “Bro hold my beer I got this crazy idea for a chugging game. So you fill the cup to the top and chug the liquid by holding it above your head.”
and thus the first shotgun was invented.
why does he have beer but not wine?
@@qo7052 cuz pythagoras is a homie
Man put the effort into making this cup when he coulda just gave his students smaller cups
But you want to embarrass the students
@@Sentient_Blob make them look like a dumbass for being greedy
They are hard to drink from and refills get past the problem
Just drink from the bottle
Giving the students smaller cups doesn't teach the students self control. They'd just learn to fill the cup to the top no matter the cup size. This teaches them their actions has consequences, but more directly.
Then again, we live in an era that instead of teaching kids not to stab each other with scissors they just give students plastic scissors to stab each other with.
"The downside, of course, was that they would have poisoned themselves."
Sounds pretty Greek mythology-like to me.
LOBLord of Bonkles : Not just mythology-Socrates was forced to drink poison.
ErykaSoleil
Oof
Why not use compacted clay?
As a greek, that sounds pretty accurate
@@armchairphilosopher6880 why not just plug the hole then?
Students: sticks thumb on the bottom hole.
Pythagoras: Impossible
@@TheQueerSpaghetti just chug chug chug
Sounds kind of kinky.
It would probably work best as a surprise.
As the cup bottom is not flat, that wouldn't work!
Drink from bottle.
Not only would they poison themselves, but it defeats the purpose of filling the cup. The amount of mercury is about the same amount of extra wine they would get
Said Chammas Not necessarily. If my understanding of physics is correct, you should be able to cheat in an amount of water/wine that is of equal mass to the amount of mercury that would “fill” the glass. To maximize wine, you only need enough mercury to fill to the top (without going over), plus enough mercury at the bottom to prevent water from entering the siphon. If the glass were engineered with a very thin siphon, you could use next to no mercury and fill the cup to over 13 times the allowed volume (given the geometry of the glass allowed that much wine; this is theoretical to show a point). Given you’re only trying to fill an extra fraction of the allowed volume, you essentially only need enough mercury to cover the aperture to the siphon. If you imagine a cylinder and use the first cup as a reference, the height above the top of the siphon is significantly greater than the diameter of the siphon. Given the siphon has a roughly circular cross-section and is doubled up on itself, it’s very hard to think the opening is taller than the amount of wine to gain. Even with the most conservative of rough estimates, that particular glass would fill to compensate for the mercury’s volume, then allow for an extra volume of wine equal to that of the mercury. Given an optimal functioning vessel utilizing the same principle, the theoretical limit to this ratio is ludicrous. Very little mercury (a negligible amount considering the total volume) to tredecuple your allowed wine and then some.
He used a lot more mercury than was necessary; once you block the hole you only need 1/13th the height of drink you want in additional mercury
if you used mercury you could just fill the tube and not the glass. i could be wrong but i don’t think you need that much mercury outside the tube like you see in the video
@@limepop340 What he's saying in a complicated way: Mercury is about 13 times denser than water. So to push mercury one inch up a tube, you need 13 inches of water. If you want the mercury not to be pushed over the u tube, you thus need enough mercury such that the difference of water vs mercury pished is a bit more than the distance between the u turn and the top of the glass. So you need about 1/13th of that distance in mercury. The diamateter of the tube is irrelevant as long as it's smaller than that distance.
except that it isnt
"The downside is that they would have poisoned themselves"
Pythagoras:"Who's laughing now?"
Students: "Yeah, but at least we were still able to scoff all your wine!" 😝
Pythagoras: *Invents Pythagoras cup*
Students: *Invents chugging*
*chug, chug, chug, chug, chug*
Oh hey, didnt expect to see you here xD
Let me guess chugoras made chugging
@@AbsoluteAbsurd Are you following me? Or are we both following the recommended tab XD
TokuTickler I swear im not xD
I just happen to see you everywhere too. Its not weird tho right?
"Inside here, there is a U-tube" - he says, inside a CZcams.
u-ception
448
Lul
95Titanium
It's actually symbolic of how CZcams siphons money out of its users.
@@e5a Youception*
4:00 "If Pythagoras students were clever... they would poison them selfs"
I mean pythagoras did have a cult.
@@kennarajora6532 and thats the loophole
Thank you, Neil for giving us this instead of going on holiday.
Can we just mention that this man looks like the embodiment of science ?
Modern Einstein?
@@jdgshsjchdjejkd545 id ot
there is at least one new person here who didn‘t see him before and says that, and that‘s a great thing, too
A borderline Mad Scientist, but a very likable gentleman. :)
@@chara5 imagine a collaboration between this guy and Bill Nye
"I have designed this cup so you can ONLY fill it with this much wine!"
"Professor, why not just give us a smaller cup?"
"A what now!?
Because you can't fill a cup to the top and safely drink it... it will spill. Since there is always room someone will always try to get a little bit more regardless of how small it is. It is the same idea with money. People will try to skirt around laws to get more even when having more has no benefit to them... any law we create they would find a new loop hole or if the law was too strict it hurts everyone hence they fight it in court to remove it.
A great and simple example is that we can't limit how much a person makes in a year to stop people from getting billions while their employees get nothing... because then the lottery and gambling can't happen. The people who use those things will be upset and fight said law, along with the people who run those things, and of course the people who get billions would fight it as well.
The exception to this would be create something which solely punishes people from the inside... of course this then leads to people using multiple cups and so forth. The only way to get around this is to ruin someone's reputation (Their cup spilling) and hence making everyone distrust them or dislike them and blaming them for the reason we can't sneak more... and people will be less likely to try to get around it as they risk basically losing everything.
Of course a new cup has to be endlessly designed... to compensate for the new cheaters.
An unfortunately endless battle.
Dragoonsoul7878 if I said “you must be great at parties” I’d probably get wooshed
Dragoonsoul7878 idc
Pretty sure it's more about restraint than the actual amount.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 I love your comment.
you are so wholesome and i love u
Verified moment
“the downside is that they would’ve poisoned themselves” what an inconvenience 😂😂
"the downside of course, is that they would have poisoned themselfs."
*Video ends*
lol I read this as that happened.
Themselves. Just saying.
It's okay, they just want to follow a similar path to Socrates, they just prefer a slower, far more destructive death of their psych firat.
I would have filled the hole inside the cup with candle wax, or simply over fill it and quickly drink it all. ;D
chili cheesemf not necessary
My teachers never gave me any wine when I was a student. No wonder modern education is failing.
Aye, It really brings out your inner creativity.
I have doubts.
@Bruzel Azcriarati German joke
I bet they didn't give you any mercury, either. Failing indeed!
@@Blade_Of_Heaven doubts are things that don't exist
This man in the calmest voice possible told us to poison ourselves
imagine being that person who goes just a tiny bit over the line by accident.
This guy obviously knows what he's talking about, just look at his hair.
....k
Normal people trade IQ for hair colour.
@@snowjix Do you think it like that because you think you're different from others
@@demiray1097 Do you see yourself as an exact copy of everybody else?
@@snowjix I think you dont understand what I'm talking about or you're just joking
If Pythagoras's student were really clever, they would have brought their own glass.
it was rude in these times :D
@@mariovalusiak2969 really?
@@Fred_the_1996 I heard the same thing, and it wasn't exclusive to ancient Greece. I can't name any sources (so its probably made up) but basically when you where invited to someone else's house (or were offered wine by someone else in general) and brought your own cup you were implying that you dont trust this person and thought he was going to poison you. In ancient times poison was not put into the drink (at least not commonly) but rather they would rub the poison on the inside of the cup the victim was supposed to drink from.
Or plug the hole
Or they could fill a little mercury
I love the excitement in his eyes when he said that they would have poisoned themselves😂😂😂
"The downside is that they would have poisoned themselves"
A small price to pay for salvation.
"If they were clever, they could have poured a bit of mercury. The downside is that they would have poisoned themselves."
I have a solution: use gallium instead. Non-toxic and still works the same. Also, oh heck.
Or you could just plug the exit whole with your finger
Or something that is heavier than water, like pretty much anything
Jacob R It has to be a liquid
@@yaykruser true
@@yaykruser
or you could just stuff the opening with cloth, or you could just not use the cup.
However if they were really really smart, they’d just drink from the bottle
Back in the day, they didn't have bottles.
If they were smart they would just plug the hole with their finger or something.
Words of Dionysus
Or drink from the bottom
i shotgun a lot of cans so this is acceptable too
If they were smart, they would just overfill and drink from the bottom.
Pythagoras: *Designs a cup to make sure his students don’t take too much wine*
The student who fills the cup twice: You may have outsmarted me, but I have outsmarted your outsmarting
He can just not allow refills
@@skelet8337 But how would he control that? They clearly pour their own wine.
The student who drinks faster than it could drain: i am speed
The student that drinks out of the drain:
I am inevitable.
The student who drinks out of the bottle: "Finally, a worthy opponent"
This man looks like science
"Thirsty hoe."
- Pythagoras
I want this on a T-shirt with the Pythagorean cup beneath it!
Anne Staff imAGINE AHAHAHHSHSAJJA that would be amazing
1k likes. 3 comments
nice
Hahahahahahha, that was legit funny. 😂
"now now children, don't be greedy with the mercury. everyone needs a drink"
gary spooner if they're being greedy, let them have it. They deserve it.
Oh yes, the mercury will cleanse your soul of all negative things in the world so just take some sips of the beautiful drink
thank you youtube for recommending me this 5 years later
I love that his thought when going home is 'what if I filled it with Mercury!?'.
Amazing
Moral of the story: be clever, poison yourself
I believe most mythologies would argue that if you try to outsmart the gods, you get punished for it. I'm sure the Greek gods would have loved Pythagoras' cup.
No, the moral is never drink from a cup. It's a classic blunder. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Technically alcohol is also a poison lol
Actually, there is another way to fill the cup completely. Stop up the hole in the bottom with bees wax. It is non-toxic, and it will prevent the air in the tube from being displaced, which in turn will prevent the water/wine traveling up the tube in the first place.
I couldn’t have said it better myself
I’m glad Neil took off his entire vacation time to record a few minutes of mercury and water
I love how your comment is just 2 days ago but got 116 likes, that means more and more people are aware of science 👍
Beth Johnathan No, it just means that CZcams’s algorithm doesn’t work
Beth Johnathan I didn’t even know it had likes until you replied 😂
@@tannercortez yo did u really leave that comment only 2 days ago?
@@rittenbrake1613 Unless youtube is lying. Up to 216 now :O
The hack, filling the bottom with mercury, reinforces the idea why the Cup is a brilliant idea
I for one am enthralled, the mercury idea was brilliant!
This cup is looks like first ever ancient prank to me
it is, its a joke device.
"Yo yo It's just a prank bro! "
---pythagoras
Wine filling prank (gone wrong) (gone sexual)
@@siddhanthravichandran3245 2 scholars 1 cup
Oh but it is
Student: Plugs the hole with their finger
Pythagoras: *NANI?!*
Wow you're so funny and original
@@pastelxenon wow, you're so funny and original
wow everyone is so funny and original
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Wow no one cares if you don't like it, that's the problem.
"The downside of course being that they would have poisoned themselves"
Ah only a small downside
It’s amazing how we can just get all those results even without those real experiments, simply with physics formulas! After watching this video, I thought why not work it out, so I derived the equation for the height up to which the water should be filled (given that there’s no limitation on the height of the wine glass, and there exists no surface tension, just to make it simpler) in terms of ‘g’, density of the denser liquid, height of the U tube from the initial level, density of water and the height of the column of that denser liquid. Apparently, if its mercury, we need to have water column’s height 13.6 times that of if the water column filled was replaced by mercury instead. Or simply put, 13.6 times the distance between the top of the mercury level and the top of the U tube.
Next step. So even if the Pythagorus’s students were greedy and they somehow manage to save themselves from mercury poisoning, they still can’t drink unlimited wine (given that the U tube has fixed height of ‘h’). It’s just 13.6 times ‘h’.
Next step. Let’s get practical. Now the glass itself doesn’t have unlimited height. And it has height of ‘n’ times ‘h’. With lil bit help from integration, you can get that height of drinkable wine too. I won’t spoil the activity for you, go find out if you managed to read up till here sincerely!
4:10 "A small price to pay for salvation".
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@@Milly7119 Hi pain, my close friend. :)
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i, of cause am no expert but i thought pure mercury wasn't that dangerous anyway because we can't digest it anyway so it just goes through and that mercury also doesn't dissolve in water/ wine so actually nothing would have happened. actually.
Imagine giving this to a friend and not telling him what this does
And then he gets Mercury poisoning and dies a vegetable
I'm not sure I understand this fully, if no one poured mercury in wouldn't it just limit how much could be put in?
yeah bruh dont give him any mercury :P
@jack daniels yeah, the thing that confused me was XyW saying someone drinking from the cup would give them mercury poisoning and I thought there was just inherent mercury always in the cup, sometimes I just overthink things I guess
Lol your pfp is a google image
"The students could of been clever and filled the cup right to the top"
"The only downside would be that they would *_poison_* themselfes"
Ah yes, I am going to drink a bit more wine in exchange for getting poisoned
This is very unique! I never would have thought that Pythagoras branched out and created such a simple(yet impressive) contraption.
The true test of greed was whether or not his students were willing to drink it as it spewed out the bottom or let it all fall on the floor and pour another glass of wine
Put those lips to the bottom of the glass and shotgun it
Why not just block the whole at the bottom with ur finger..
why not drink it out of the jug you're pouring the wine out of
Chug! Chug! Chug!
Man. College ruled back then, too.
You are coming up with remarkable ways to defeat this ancient high-tech device.
“They could’ve put mercury at the bottom “
Or, plug the hole on the bottom
That only demonstrates how greedy we are
no one goes looking for a hole in a cup
@@JaveLester No that just demonstrates how smart we are actually
Then make it a pinhole.
@@man.i.literally.failed6772 no one goes filling a cup with mercury either
I love this man with all my heart
Wow your technique is amazing well done
Student: just refills his glass
Pythagoras: inconceivable
You keep saying that word, I’m not sure if you know what it means
@@SirShanova Pretty sure it's just a fancy way of saying "unimaginable" or "unbelievable". It's really not that hard to understand.
@@SirShanova That is correct use though
y’all, steve s is making a movie reference. it’s from the princess’s bride
Blue Thunderbolt 😂 you missed the joke bud
Pytharogas Cup ❌
Self-Urinating Cup ✅
Pee pee cup
Pee pee cup
Oh dear why does it's draining sound like that
"if his students where smart they would of put a little but of mercury in there to fill it to the top but the down side is that they'd be poisoning themselves" XD
Scientist: Fill your cup with mercury to outsmart Pythagoras
Engineer: lol no, just plug the hole
This guy looks like a Half-Life scientist
STAHP
the einstein one?
Hmm…
Are you the microwave from black mesa?
You soaf f*cked up the Magnusson's magnificent microwave casserole
CZcams then: Drains Liquids
CZcams now: Drains Time
I liked what you did with you tube and U tube 😉😉😉
CZcams is the closest to a time machine
What a couple of studs. Love it!
Whoever came up with this was a genius. Oh, wait, it was Pythagoras - genius confirmed.
Pythagoras: Everyone can only have this much wine
Students: Gets refills
Pythagoras: Wait WHAT?
Thats what you get for getting smart students
imagine if the students were actually supposed to do that and the students have more iq than 25% of the ppl in the world currently
students: bring out their own wine and glass
Same student: gets to much again
Also student: chugs wine before it drains
Just get some clay and stick it on the bottom of the cup, problem solved.
“The downside of course was that they would’ve poisoned themselves”
Is it really a downside?
D.M. Koelen i dont think so
random happens here oh sorry that wasn’t me,i am not d.m. Koelen
i, of cause am no expert but i thought pure mercury wasn't that dangerous anyway because we can't digest it anyway so it just goes through and that mercury also doesn't dissolve in water/ wine so actually nothing would have happened. actually.
D.M. Koelen what do u mean?
Fantastic tie right there.
This was nice and interesting to watch! Thanks
When I first read the title I thought it meant that if someone was greedy the cup would fill with mercury and they would be drinking mercury
Me to
That's the impression I got from the thumbnail
That sounds more like something that Diogenes would do.
that would be the most deadliest troll
@@cheesemanofficial9986 epik gamer momemt
Or you could just plug the hole at the bottom of the cup.
A11ex I'd plug it with my lips. I want the wine to come out of the cup and into my mouth, how it gets there is just a technicality.
MrSubjugation You could also make that impossible by making the liquid distribute evenly on all sides through small pepperbox-like holes as it's leaving at the bottom, so at least you get much less of it but even that can be defeated if you just put the cup in a bucket.
A11ex Or do you mean bottom of the cuuuuuuuuhhhhp
etnies777
uuuuuuUUUUUHHHHHp
A11ex beat me to it
"it also works with mercury!"
Me: *yeah that makes sense*
Why wouldn't it?
its to prove the siphoning has not much to do with density, but rather cohesiveness/viscosity which he didnt mention about.
I already love this man.
*HAHAHAHAHA **1:51** "There is a CZcams!!!!!!"...*
sorry i found that amusing
+xxuncexx
CZcams, invented by Pythagoras.
Ikr
+xxuncexx Was youtube named after this?
+xxuncexx Got 'em
+xxuncexx That's because it IS amuzing. I missed it the first time!
drink from the bottom of the cup and have a buddy keep pouring it in, thats what pythagoras is all about babbyyyy
to the top! :D made me lough
this needs to be a rick and morty bit.
+Jonathan George omfg was just thinking that, read it in rick voice
WHY IS THIS SO RICK & MORTY-Y?
Complex because i was binging the second season that week
It is actually used in (almost) every washer if you take a look to pull fabric softener out simply by adding a bit of water into the bucket.
"The downside is that they would have poisoned themselves"
When the TidePod challenge was first invented.
":", not ".".
@@CreeperPookie Who cares? Its not an essay its a comment on a site to watch videos
@@ahmed4363 1: It's* x2
2: I do. Missing " ' "s can, in some cases, change the meaning of the word; also, words just look better when " ' "s are used.
@@CreeperPookie only you. I have adapted to seeing its
@@ahmed4363 I haven't.
The u tube drains you out if you're too greedy
Me at 4AM on CZcams
Clever comment 👏
A U-tube in a CZcams!
Lel
So true.
CZcams CZcams everywhere even inside this cup at 1:49 ;)
In order to circumvent this tricky cup, I would have filled the hole inside with candle wax, or simply over fill it and quickly drink it all (course not the mercury). ;D
Dude they had CZcams back then thats epic
He could have just said U shaped tube, but he's a boomer, he doesn't understand
@@indofan1708 Most anyone would say "U tube," because that's what it is: a tube that's curved like a U. Generation has nothing to do with it, so quit acting pretentious.
@@TrueFlameslinger Awokawokawok 😂😂😂
Very clever
Damn they had CZcams and armoured knights we have it really bad
There is an engineering aspect to this video. This pytagoras cup design is actually the best toilet flash container ever designed. No seals, no mechanism, no leaks. Perpetual toilet flash container.
This design is especially practical in public , where it self flash the water periodically.
It has so many practical uses.
Same pitagoras container in your garden. You tune the periodic flash by tuning the water entering the container with a simple robust valve. You got automatic irrigation system without electricity nor electronics. Perpetual.
You can quantize, premix fuel injection as well.
Brilliant ancient technology.
I learnt something new today. Thanks.
What if they put honey, then wine...?
I think it might drain slower, but the honey would still be forced out. It's the density of mercury, not viscosity that makes this work.
+Josh Wilson but isnt honey denser than water too...?
Ooh! Better yet: Syrup
You're right. I think it would take more honey than the mercury they used, though. Since mercury is much denser, a thin layer at the bottom is enough. With honey, you might need to fill half the cup or more.
Here's the plan. Mercury, honey, then water.
Isn't this just a cup sized toilet?
yes, yes it is
No. This is a cup that uses the syphon principle. A toilet is a sanitation fixture that uses the syphon principle.
They are both the same concept though.
***** Too bad irl I cant do that...
peter griffin thats exactly what a toilet is,
you pull the tab and water floods in creating weight to push the water down (like a syphon) and emptying the bowl hopefully getting rid of whatever is inside and then refills.
This is also called a bell siphon. It is used for transporting water automatically in hydroponics.
I just got recommended this out of nowhere and it is really interesting
Not only would they have poisoned themselves but also the volume they would have gained if they had filled the cup to its brim was taken up by the mercury.
nura loh
No. Since mercury is over 13 times denser than wine (water) you need 13x more water above the mercury to "push" it up the same height. That can be seen in the video by the way. While the cup is full with water the mercury in the inner tube is pushed up just a few millimeters.
superdau what I was trying to say is that the Mercury takes up volume which can no longer be taken up by the wine to maximise the amount of wine in the cup. There will at least be 1/13 of volume wasted to Mercury.
nura loh That depends on how big the hole at the bottom is and how high the u-tube goes. You can make a cup that spills at any arbitrary height.
Assuming volume increases proportionately with the height of the cup, and the height of the u-tube is equal to the height of the cup, at least 1/13 will be wasted. Any higher and you'll need less Mercury and any less, you'll need more. It's reasonable to say that the one in the video is lower than the height of the glass. The size of the hole shouldn't matter should it? I remember learning that when I was back in school a decade ago or sth. You place water into 3 connected cylinders of different circumference and the height of the water will be leveled.
nura loh Well, they'd probably just have to drink the mercury too.
Students: * drink out of the bottle *
Pythagoras: IMPOSSIBLE
They didn't use bottles back then, wine was stored and poured from big ceramic pots.
Now, I'll r/wooosh myself out.
@@cyberhaggis Student: * drinks out of the pot *
Pythagoras: Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?
@@cyberhaggis You could just get a clay bowl and drink it with that. Or alternatively just get a piece of clay and shove it into the hole, clogging it.
Fills cup to the max.
Drinks it from the hole in the bottom.
5 years too late, and somebody likely has pointed this out already, but this type of cup is actually used in a fairly common piece of lab equipment, the Soxhlet extractor, where solvent is continously filled/drained from a sample to extract!
"This is how the U tube demonetize you, by draining all the monetization away through the bottom"
Just for the name & profile pic alone you'd get my 'like'.
Here, have another engagement point.
Jokes on you pythagoras, I'll drink it right from the bottom of the cup. Endless flow of wine says I.
kind of defeats the point of a cup....
@@solomonjenkins9505
Precisely the point.
CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG!
@@warmnutjuice1682 he never met Brits or Americans!
Brits: This is what we do!
Americans: Hold my beer.
Smart Student would put some mercury on the bottom ...
But you ... You make the demon of greed bow to you ...
Wouldn't the liquid will flow out from the pipe even when we tilt the glass to drink the liquid inside ?
No, the liquid in the center of cup will remain at about the same level
@@pankrzysztof4949 thank you for telling .
Imagine beign nice enough to take the limited amount of wine but then you accidentaly pour a little too much
Have you ever gotten a video that's years old recommended? Heres the explenation: 1:58
Yes
I have reached salvation now
thank you comrade
1:52 The first u tube! We can thank the Greeks for cat videos.
You're welcome 😂
Imagine that, a CZcams so long ago!
you're welcome!
I wondered where Captain Obvious was, and now I know. 🤦♂️
If only Pythagoras was still around to see the awful, awful mess he's made.
Me: chugs from the barrel of wine. Keg stand, cups are for wimps
I didn't know I needed this in my life...
this man is literally what i would think of when someone said a scientist
I cannot believe I found you and your channel again. When I was younger, my dad and I watched literally every element video of yours available at that time. You folks are the reason I passed chemistry last semester. Keep going strong!
Wow, nice, thanks for informing!
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People: -Block the hole-
The cup: You weren't supposed to do that
Why drink from the cup?
Why not just get the entire jug of mercury?
hol up
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It siphons because at a certain liqiuid leve which is above the siphone's bend, the fluid (water or wine usually), the liquid would have more weight than the weight of of air in the siphon which is the same weight of air (atmospheric pressure) in the outside of the siphon (it's just an extension of the air weight or air pressure on the outside), so the weight which is gravity + mass of the fluid (wine or water usually) would be greater than just the weight of air (atmospheric air pressure).
If they were being smart they would've put their finger over the hole in the bottom. The air pressure would keep it from siphoning out
What if you don't have any fingers?
then you can't grab the cup ;) (i know you actually can, but cmon)
I heard the smart ones had someone fill it all the way while they let the wine pour into their greedy mouths through the hole in the bottom, funnel style.
400 BC: FUNNEL-BOOZE FRAT PARTY WAS INVENTED
Why didn't they just drink straight from the bottle?
The logical conclusion is to just turn it upside down when it starts falling out the bottom.
Ok boomer
Oh that makes much more sense
The logical greedy conclusion would be to hold it over your head and start chugging it down! Beat you Pythagoras!
It's an open cup it'll pour out.
Better idea is to hold it up and drink from the bottom.
What about the liquid in the big part of it ?
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