APPLIED PHYSICS WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT.
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So I was sucking all the air out of a beer bottle - don't tell me you haven't done this, everyone's done this. If not with a beer bottle, than with a glass Coke bottle or something similar - I was sucking and sucking all of that air out, trapping the vacuum with my lips and tongue while simultaneously fighting to keep my lips and tongue from being pulled into the bottle - EVERYONE has done this! You all know what I'm talking about. It's a universal rite of passage, an irresistable experiment, everyone has tried and everyone has gotten their tongue caught a few times too. Tibetan monks have done this.
So anyway, I think I achieved a state of total vacuum - or very close to it - in that bottle, without getting my tongue sucked in in the process. The whole bottle vibrated with the *POP* when I broke the seal.
And I thought back to the other thing I do, and that I suspect everyone else has also done, with an empty beer bottle: SQUEEZE IT. Real hard. Hard as I can, grip it one hand and put on the squeeze as hard as possible, trying to break it. But it doesn't break. They engineer them to withstand that.
But here's my thought: I bet they don't engineer them to withstand the combination of both forces combined!!
Think about it. What if I could bring the interior to a state of near total vacuum with my tongue and lips, and THEN apply my hardest grip to break that bottle! I bet under the might of those two combined forces, that bottle's gotta pop, right? Right?
I'm trying to think of a safe way to test this.
OK!
So I was sucking all the air out of a beer bottle - don't tell me you haven't done this, everyone's done this. If not with a beer bottle, than with a glass Coke bottle or something similar - I was sucking and sucking all of that air out, trapping the vacuum with my lips and tongue while simultaneously fighting to keep my lips and tongue from being pulled into the bottle - EVERYONE has done this! You all know what I'm talking about. It's a universal rite of passage, an irresistable experiment, everyone has tried and everyone has gotten their tongue caught a few times too. Tibetan monks have done this.
So anyway, I think I achieved a state of total vacuum - or very close to it - in that bottle, without getting my tongue sucked in in the process. The whole bottle vibrated with the *POP* when I broke the seal.
And I thought back to the other thing I do, and that I suspect everyone else has also done, with an empty beer bottle: SQUEEZE IT. Real hard. Hard as I can, grip it one hand and put on the squeeze as hard as possible, trying to break it. But it doesn't break. They engineer them to withstand that.
But here's my thought: I bet they don't engineer them to withstand the combination of both forces combined!!
Think about it. What if I could bring the interior to a state of near total vacuum with my tongue and lips, and THEN apply my hardest grip to break that bottle! I bet under the might of those two combined forces, that bottle's gotta pop, right? Right?
I'm trying to think of a safe way to test this.
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