Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1075 Joined: 4 Sep 2008     | |
BANNED  Posts: 2505 Joined: 19 Aug 2008    | Well it could be because the oil in the squash is less dense than the water so it floats, it could also have some sort of attraction to your face, its possible that the particles in the drink are charged so they want to balance out their charge by giving it to your face because you can act like a ground so the charge is gone. I'm not sure if that is even close to the reason but its all that I can think of right now. User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1151 Joined: 7 Dec 2008     | You are cursed, beware the ides of March. Just kidding, honestly I don't know, unless the water is bonding with the squash quickly enough to make some of the electrons over-charged by some miracle of science and physics. But don't listen to me, I don't know what I just said. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1134 Joined: 26 Jan 2008    | Water could indeed be attracted to the static charge on your face but most likely ir=ts due to how fast you filled the glass and the drops "jumping" out are in fact being pushed out with some force by the last of the air rushing out of the glass |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1713 Joined: 13 Jul 2008   | Perhaps air contained in the powder is escaping. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1075 Joined: 4 Sep 2008 |
So far I like this solution the best; it's not powdered squash I'm using, it's liquid based. I guess it probably is the last of the air from the fast mixing escaping my sippy cup. But we'll never know. Anyone has any exciting ideas, keep posting. Next time I go downstairs, I'll repeat, but then set the cup on the side, and see if I can see leaping drops of squash, to eliminate the static theory. I actually have an essay to write still, and it's 4:24am local time. Fuck a duck! |
Muckraker  Posts: 270 Joined: 24 Jul 2008    | A witch is being evil to you. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 946 Joined: 6 Dec 2008    |
a cup of... squash? pray tell, what is this concoction? you mean like the vegetable? i sure hope not, that doesn't sound appetizing at all.... not sure what's going on here, but it reminds me of another science question some had asked... seems this guy had been storing a bottle of schnapps of some flavor in his freezer.. the contents didn't ever freeze solid, but as soon as he opened the bottle and began to pour some into a glass, the liquid rapidly froze up... the purported reason was that while in the bottle, the liquid was pure, and there was nothing for the ice crystals to attach to and begin freezing... once the liquid was poured into a glass, however, some small impurity (a speck of dust perhaps) entered the equation, and gave the ice something to bond to... that explanation sounds dubious to me... anyone here have another? and OP, sorry i can't answer you question.... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3782 Joined: 29 Dec 2007   | Bubbles in the water coming out? Where I live squash is a stronger (and better) version of lemmonade, solo for example. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 73 Joined: 18 Oct 2008    | I'm not sure of the details of the situation, but what you're describing does sound very much like it has something to do with charge. Static, magnetism, something of that nature...although I have no idea why the liquid would be magnetized. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 879 Joined: 23 Nov 2008   | God did it :P |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1075 Joined: 4 Sep 2008 |
Squash is vegetable in England too, but squash is generally used to refer to a very strong fruit flavoured drink that needs to be diluted with water before being drunk. I accidentally left a beer in the freezer at a party the other night. The next morning I remembered, and hoping it hadn't expanded too much, retrieved it. The whole inside of the bottle was full of was looked like solid ice. I opened it, but rather than it being solid ice, it was a load of almost beer slush, which shot out to a height of roughly 1.5 metres. IT WAS AWESOME. |
BANNED  Posts: 366 Joined: 18 Sep 2008  | Could be a few things: These are the only possible explanations. User was banned for: Probation posts. (Permanent) |
On the Record  Posts: 5014 Joined: 28 Feb 2008   |
I was about to ask how you'd drink a squash. Hrm... You'd prolly enjoy the mintos+diet coke, if you haven't done it already. |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 199 Joined: 19 Oct 2008  | I think the spirit of Holly-Mas is punishing you due to the lack of Holly in your Avatar. |
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So I just went and poured myself a big ole cup of squash. I put the squash in (Robinson's Summer Fruits flavour), and then added the water, filling it to the top very quickly. Then, I immediately went in for a sip, and I felt little bits of water leaping from the cup onto my face. This isn't the first time this has happened. So why does it do this? It isn't a fizzy drink...