Monday, March 24, 2008

I smell something burning

Battle of the Brains




I just watched, am watching on the Science channel as we speak, "Battle of the Brains."  Since we're in a golden age of the internet, where the free exchange of everything has not yet been estopped  ( get it?  e-stopped. Isn't that clever?) by politicians and lawyers, I was confident of finding it.  Yup.  Here it is.  I'm in the cork-in-a-bottle category, if indeed I'm in one at all.  *burp*
3/24/2008 10:07:00 AM 5 Comments

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Anonymous said...

Of course this is anecdotal but I have 2 friends with very high IQs. How high, I think around 200? Watching them figure out something is amazing. I built a very large, glass dome with one, and she was a hoot to work with. She would anticipate potential bumps in the road on the project far sooner than me.

But I swear both of these people haven't got the common sense the good lord gave an apple. Throughout their lives they have done some real bone headed things, become engaged in bad relationships. Lots of over analysis, wheel spinning. I guess I'm happy with my ordinary brain.

Well into our 50s, I'm the wealthy one and these two aren't. It sure as hell seems pretty easy to me, in this day, in this country, to at least be fairly comfortable.

So you say, maybe they really aren't so intelligent? Beats me
MM

3/24/08, 11:26 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...

So, it seems, you too can get corks out of bottles.

3/24/08, 11:29 AM
Anonymous said...

I guess you can't just break the bottle.

3/24/08, 4:35 PM
Billll said...

I have several friends in MENSA, whose motto is "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"

None of them are exactly starving, I might note.

3/24/08, 10:19 PM
Anonymous said...

SO is the trick to get a cork out of the bottle without breaking it? increase the barometric pressure. The cork will compress, but the glasss won't. Or can you break the cork into pieces?

(okay... just watched the video) You have to form the wire as a hook that will surround the cork linerally. A cage, in effect. It will compress as it's drawn out the opening. Form the wire into a "V", bend both ends back on themselves. force both ends into the bottle. Invert bottle to make the cork fall toward opening. pull on wire. done.

Now, try that with the inversion glasses. :)

3/25/08, 3:02 AM

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