[penguicon-general] How does the hotel feel about corn starch in the pool?

[Wolfger]

On 11/15/06, chuck child <chuck.child at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While I have not watched the video, I have played extensively with corn
> starch and water before, and I can add a couple things.
>
> First: If you put it inside a strong enough container, a inch thick puddle
> of it can stop a .38 bullet.
>

Cool. Maybe we need to test this in Geeks with Guns?

Second: It can be made in small batches, and is almost as much fun that way.
>

Depends on your definition of almost, I suppose. In the video, they are
walking (well, running, actually) on "water". I can't see a small batch
being anywhere near that much fun.

Oh, yeah, and the recipe can accept a lot of variation, from a almost-solid,
> that will take minutes for your hand to sink through, to an almost liquid,
> that is hard to get to crumble, in your hand, because it runs so quickly.
>

In the video, it's pretty darned liquidy. When they run, waves ripple. When
they stop, they sink to the bottom in a couple of seconds.


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