Glad we don't have to try and swim the AUV through an ocean of mercury!
December 15, 2011 9:00 AM
by Sean Michael Ragan
Dropping a Cannonball into a Tub Full of Mercury
Continuing our "what happens when you drop stuff into stuff?" series is this short video segment from the BBC. As with dropping a magnet through a copper pipe, many of you probably know what to expect, here. But it's nonetheless cool to see. Mercury is so beautiful; such a shame it's also so toxic.
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"We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
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