The 11 Year Soap Bubble

-Overdrive- writes "Popular Science has an interesting article about an inventor and his 11 year quest for Colored Bubbles" From the article: " It turns out that coloring a bubble is an exceptionally difficult bit of chemistry. A bubble wall is mostly water held in place by two layers of surfactant molecules, spaced just millionths of an inch apart. If you add, say, food coloring to the bubble solution, the heavy dye molecules float freely in the water, bonding to neither the water nor the surfactants, and cascade almost immediately down the sides. You'll have a clear bubble with a dot of color at the bottom. What you need is a dye that attaches to the surfactant molecules and disperses evenly in that water layer. Pack in more dye molecules, get a deeper, richer hue. Simple. Well, on paper anyway."

Re:Yet another dup...

[halcyon1234]

Just goes to show that it is easier to make duplicate stories than coloured soap bubbles.

Its sad that an anonymous coward has to tell you

[Anonymous Coward]

... that whenever there is a dupe, there are people like the above posters telling everyone that it is a dupe. In reality, their comments are merely duplicates of previous posts. If duplication is really an issue for you at slashdot, either:

a. attempt to become a staff member
b. submit some non duplicated content.

halfway down this preachy tirade, I realize that someone already has probably told the dupe police here that what they are doing, is in fact, duplicating duplicates. So I find myself dubiously duplicating the disasterous duties of other dupe police dislikers.

FFS, talk about the article, say something funny/insightful/etc, or troll around to waste time at work. I'snt that why we come to /. anyways?

OT: Hope that didn't burst anyone's bubble :)

-AC

Man, I should subscribe soon

[JohnnyDoesLinux]

So I can have that feeling of Deja Vu... all over again, Slashdot style.

First post...

[afaik_ianal]

... that doesn't talk about this article being a dupe!

Oh - I did it too, didn't I?

Re:Heaven's sake

[Hieronymus Howard]

The rate of at which Slashdot runs stories that appeared on Slashdot first is getting embarrassing too.

Re:Simpler Solution

[Use Psychology]

Sigh. To easy. Give me a hard problem.

how about spelling?

Good thing I read the comments,

[iamjambon]

because, this early in the morning, I was thinking it was Thursday again.

Obligatory Spongebob reference...

[Anita Coney]

"First go like this, spin around. Stop! Double take three times. One, two three. Theeeen PELVIC THRUST. Whoooo, Whooooooo. Stop on your right foot, DON'T FORGET IT! Now it's time to bring it around town. Bring-it-around-town. Then you do this, then this, and this, then this, then that, then this and that..."

Re:Yet another dupe... so what?

[phlegmofdiscontent]

Because they're obviously testing us, man. You see, right now the dupes are pretty damn easy to see, but eventually the dupes will get harder to spot and the stakes will get higher. Those who don't point out the dupes will be eliminated and the ones who point them out get lower numbers. In the end, there will be one person and he will be crowned King of Slashdot, and he will get girls. And touch their boobies.

Re:Yet another dup...

[famebait]

The holy grail is of course achieveing differently colored dupes. Some combinations may be relatively easy, while others would be a very impressive feat indeed.

Re:Yet another dupe... so what?

[hobbit]

My kingdom for some mod points. For that comment, sir, you should be awarded a special sneak preview accidental-but-on-purpose brush with your arm against said boobies (through clothes) in advance of judgement day.

Re:Is it safe?

[freeweed]

Oh baloney.

It's obvious these bubbles are safe, as they were grown without using any pesticides or other chemicals whatsoever. Most probably these are also free-range bubbles.

Sheesh, people, get with the newspeak!