Date: 8/5/06 01:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrmmarc.livejournal.com
Dude!
That's SO cool!

Date: 11/5/06 11:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tobykenobi.livejournal.com
mrmmarc, your "poke the bunny" icon has brightened up my day, I can't help but laugh everytime I look at it :)

(which is a little awkward in the middle of a deadly quiet office ;)

Date: 11/5/06 03:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrmmarc.livejournal.com
I try my best!:)

Date: 8/5/06 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com
It appears to have the same material properties as my tummy.

Date: 8/5/06 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nina321.livejournal.com
cornstarch is awesome!
We played with it a little at uni. If you have some in a beaker, and you stir it, it supposedly gets harder to stir the quicker you go.
Also, apparently, if you try to *very quickly* remove whatever you are stirring it with, you can actually pick up the beaker!

Date: 8/5/06 02:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
*nods*
If you make the mix a bit dryer, you can make a ball that will bounce when dropped on the floor but just flow into a puddle when you leave it on a flat surface.
The scientific term is thixotropic.

Date: 8/5/06 06:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mattp.livejournal.com
And it's good for practical jokes. Make a ball and start playing with it. Then throw it to someone who will instinctively catch it...

Date: 8/5/06 02:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puddingcat.livejournal.com
And that's why you can run on custard :)

Date: 8/5/06 02:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
*grins*
Or make a ball that will bounce but melt into a puddle when left alone.

Date: 8/5/06 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com
I shall have nightmares now after that last bit with the rather Cthulhoid 'fingers'... thank you...

Date: 8/5/06 02:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
I'm glad I'm not the only one who made the Cthulhoid connection. ;o)

Date: 8/5/06 02:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rirekon.livejournal.com
That was awesome!
*plans to take over the world using cornstarch*

Date: 8/5/06 03:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
weird you should post this today - we've just had a class of 30 doing thixotropic experiments with cornstarch, and making bouncing custard balls (basically cornstarch with PVA and other additives). They finished at 3.30, I've only just finished cleaning up the mess...

Date: 8/5/06 03:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] echo-echo.livejournal.com
Fantastic. Corn starch is really interesting. Isn't there a similar material you can buy that has similar properties, sold as a toy?

Date: 8/5/06 04:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
It's called Bird's Custard Powder. ;o) (see [livejournal.com profile] ffuture's comment above)

BTW, what's the ETA on Endzeit Bunkertracks?

Date: 8/5/06 04:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rirekon.livejournal.com
Silly Putty?
It does the whole bouncing and spreading over time, but it's not a liquid...

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