POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Dimensions : Re: Dimensions Server Time
4 Sep 2024 21:21:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Dimensions  
From: Invisible
Date: 15 Jan 2010 04:59:27
Message: <4b503c7f$1@news.povray.org>
>> Yeah, because a high vacuum is easy to come by. Oh, wait...
> 
> Well, yeah, it is.  It's called a bell jar.

You'd need a pretty damned big bell jar to drop an object any 
significant distance.

> You can go to edmond's scientific and buy bottles of vacuum for like a 
> quarter each, too.

Really?


The London Science Museum has a bell inside a jar with a vacuum pump. 
But last I checked, a pump powerful enough to create anything you could 
describe as "a vacuum" is an extremely expensive piece of scientific 
equipment.


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