Ooh, ocean waves are particularly cool, though, in that the particle motion does involve lateral oscillation: sciencedemo.org/2014/05/waves/

(That website is slightly broken on mobile, but the video should play. I really should write the follow-up, ten years later. 😂)

Fruit pastilles is more authentic, though! The first prototype used them, before we switched to jelly babies for filming because… well, stabbing jelly babies is funnier, right?

But still: fruit pastilles are the OG wave machine sweet.

The @iop.org have posted a higher-quality version, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMT..., and you’ll find loads of others. I’ve even seen it demonstrated by Microsoft’s education team.

That was itself more than ten years ago. The original was at the National STEM Centre eLibrary in inexplicably poor quality. They reposted it to YouTube some time ago, sadly still at low resolution and with adverts enabled. Still, closing in on a million views! youtu.be/VE520z_ugcU

The backstory here is that @rigb.org had an epic wave machine along these lines, which I used back in 1990. Ten years later, on #citv show The Big Bang, we worked out how to build it with gaffer tape as a torsion spring. Ten more years; I made a teacher training film with @alomshaha.bsky.social.

It’s inversely proportional to the number of men using the technology. The proportion of women _might_ affect the timing, but it seems highly unlikely the men would allow that to be the case. 🙄

Quite. Interesting restratification of Golgafrinchan society, really. Another few iterations and we should have credible upper and lower bounds for ambition and social awareness.

We are, after all, Golgafrinchans.

Agreed. Always aim to have as many takeoffs as landings. Parachutes are cheating.

No, that’s perfectly reasonable. We’ve all seen enough Twilight Zone to know there’s a non-zero chance that any flight departing shortly before midnight on 31st December could arrive anywhen, at the very least.

Remember that time you took off in an A320 and landed in a Vickers Vimy, for example?

Yeah, they were a thing. Not in our household, but I remember them at friends’ places. Wikipedia references Mary Berry so it must be true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunis_c...

I think Kagi has optional AI. kagi.com

Aha, context! Yikes. Been there several years running, absolutely sucks rocks. Hope you all get better soon, and manage a happy Zoom-based Christmas like the good old days.

Hate to break it to you, but you’re a day early. It’ll be cold by tomorrow.

iPhones are relatively chilled about processing, or at least predictable. But yeah, all of this is one reason I still have a ‘proper’ camera. It’s not fake bokeh when it comes out of the lens.

Of course, this means all of my group shots have somebody gurning in them. Some phones ‘fix’ that.

Bear in mind that some phones special-case the moon specifically: www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23... (bah! Broken image links all over that article!)