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  • Homer Simpson, Y, y, y , y ...

  • why dont they make a super-huge drinkingbird conected to dynamo??? would it not produce free electrisity??

  • @HowardTheServant it would have to be very big to output reasonable electricity,plus remember its not free energy,sometime this cycle stops because the liquids evaporate

  • @frizstyler yes, but i was thinking: A super size drinking bird by a lake with a dynamo...That should solve the refilling-problem

  • @HowardTheServant the stream that's supplying the lake with freshwater could be used for hydroelectric facilities to output more power. sorry but searching for free energy won't get us anywhere i believe!instead, we should speed up learning about antimatter quickly!

  • It's kind of adorable how he says "sorry, didn't mean to hit it" at 4:07.

  • This demonstrates how the human race havent yet completely understand how Harmony and balance in the universe works ... its obvious in its technology too ! We spare energy to break the balance with out actually taking any advantage from it . Truthfully speaking i know , this isnt any proοf but its a sign from a very simple mechanism :)

  • Good to see the guitars in the background. I'm playing guitar whilst watching the video! Nice to see another science/music lover.

  • you gotta love professor moriarty jaja you just got to.

  • So even physicists use google..........so everything i learned in highschool was a lie XD

  • clear as mud :)

  • could a larger "bird" be used in a sexual manner?

  • @mzyzer19 Intriguing. The question is whether a larger bird would work at all. I'm guessing no, it wouldn't, because the relative magnitudes of the forces involved probably don't scale very well.

  • I still think it's wizardry. 

  • i want a drinking bird powered car, now

  • could someone explain to me why this is NOT a perpetual motion machine?

  • @Blue9Flame because you need to bring water to it... the water that evaporate. so you have lost of energy in the system, evaporation. when all water is gone, the toy doesn't work anymore.

  • @docsharp00 oh okay i see now thanks!

  • Awesome

  • Such a simple look toy, yet it contains so much creativity.

  • he lied on the pressumtions as he said the water is room temerature.

    Water must be colder assumed that the duck actually IS room temperature which is much more likely.

  • @KrutoyPostowoy No, I didn't lie. The water was in the glass in my office overnight - it was most certainly at room temperature. Please don't throw around accusations which you can't support. Thank you.

    The temperature difference required for operation of the drinking bird originates in evaporative cooling of the water adsorbed by the felt on the bird's "head".

    Philip Moriarty (speaking in video)

  • @Moriarty2112 didnt mean no disrespect,

    but if "evaporating cooling" occured, this must mean that the water was cooler than the air. Or are you saying the water evaporating cooled the birds head below room temperature?

  • @KrutoyPostowoy Look up "evaporative cooling" on Wikipedia. And in future at the very least do your homework before you accuse someone of lying. Just because you can post comments anonymously (or pseudo-anonymously) on YouTube (and other online forums/fora) doesn't mean that you should forego manners, politeness, and common decency.

    Philip Moriarty

  • @Moriarty2112 u mad bro?

    yes ur right bout that, but the video sucks for not explaining the essence of that toy, namely that same evaporating cooling. Its like making a vid about the atom bomb and explaining how you make alloys for the coating -_- u know what I mean

  • @KrutoyPostowoy The SIxty Symbols videos were never meant to be tutorials nor to give you a complete overview of a subject (rather difficult in five or ten minutes!). In this case, I've summarised the key physical principles underpinning the operation of the bird. This can act as a "springboard" for you to do some research and, dare I say it, reading of your own (if you're interested in finding out more). There is a great deal of information about evaporative cooling on the web.

    Philip

  • thumbs up if you figured it out at the start of the vid :)

  • "Homer used it to control a nuclear power plant... but seriously"

  • @luca5900 "Homer used it to control a nuclear plant, disturbingly."

  • @luca5900 yeah and homer has a huge right arm too wich he beats old texas folks with in armwrestling

  • fanf...ingfstic !

  • What kind of accent is that? It seems like diluted Irish.

  • Like this is your here for the U of A Bio class...

    

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  • It's drinking the water!

  • what does this differ from a "perpetual motion" device?

  • @Kaeralho i might have misunderstood you but i think what you're asking is why is this not classified as a "perpetual motion device" and for that i think it's because the head of the bird needs to continually soak up water to keep up the pressure differential in the bird. eventually however the water in the glass will evaporate and the bird will stop moving, it's a motion device that's very long lasting, but not perpetual.

  • @stfunoob707 well, I got it alright, I began to think in a ot of different tricks to put into the device to make it perpetual, but, indeed, there's no way to do it.

  • @stfunoob707 and, actually, didn't think of the cup getting dry from it... completely forgot u_u... thanks for the help, sir

  • @stfunoob707 Right. Perpetual motion implies that the 'engine' will continue to work forever, exhausting no amount of fuel. This does require a 'fuel' in a sense...being, of course, that water. That's, at least, how I understand perpetual motion...is that about right?

  • Einstein died in '55... at age 76. This was invented in the '40s, apparently, so he would have been in his 60's. I say that's a good enough excuse, even for Einstein. XD

  • @ispravljat I bet you're the sort of insolent cunt who tries to argue with lecturers because he doesn't understand what is being said.

  • @cuntylishus Hi there. Don't waste your time with @ispravljat. I agree with your appraisal of him but he's posted utterly nonsensical gibberish under very many Sixty Symbols videos. He's a troll who just wants to get a reaction.

    I've told him before that he needs to take off the tinfoil helmet and seek professional help but he's unfortunately not open to advice.

    Let's see what pseudo-intellectual garbage he posts in response to this...

    All the very best,

    Philip (Moriarty)

  • It's obvious why you try to play the nice guy for the masses - you hope that they'll remember this when it comes out what other things you do so that they say "well:

    he has bad sides and he has good sides, so it's neutral." it's not since this here's

    done deliberately, done in a calculating way - and not out of naivety. think of your daughter.

  • ..."valuable" and that others "need you". For this vanity and for money you'd do everything and would look away when others terrorize and kill people way easier with the results that you come up with.

  • ...since the only vanity that's clever is the vanity to know something and to be able to pretend of others not to know it at all - while people like you fall under an inferior vanity of trying to show others what you know (even if you've read, seen and heard about it from others and didn't work it out by yourself) because you care that they think of you as being ...

  • It doesn't follow. The phenomenon you show and then point at lower scales of the phenomenon without showing any proof doesn't mean that the same phenomenon couldn't be produced by a different setting on the lower scale. Also you don't prove that Einstein couldn't work it out - you point at the text of someone who claims that Einstein couldn't work it out. Even better: in front of people like you it's best to pretend not to be able to work something out.

  • pure magic

  • @ispravljat Really? I didn't know that trolls were a religious ethnic group. Or persecuted. Or responsible for our economic crisis.

  • When he said "very high vapor pressure" It all clicked. BAM, right in the kisser

  • love that simpsons ep

  • @randomvideoguy3340 which one is it tho?

  • @Tolstoievsky the one when homer gets really fat and has to work from home its quite old

  • So it works..? Build one that is two kilometers long and conquer the universe!

  • It's drinking the water!

  • HITS HARDER THAN CHRIS BROWN

  • @ispravljat <-troll

  • Atlast the bird i wondered about a kid , is explained!

    thank you!

    Dumb Computerscience i must have choosen physics/astronomy...

  • How long will the drinking bird continue to do its thing?

  • If you biuld a really really big one couldnt you use it to run something or does it not work at large scale?

  • That's pretty amazing so the energy comes from moving water onto the felt head? Must be very efficient to transfer that motion into the the rocking motion for such along time.

  • Gotta love trolls; still, if you don't feed them, eventually they'll lose interest and go away.

  • @tehPete sure, but sometimes I find hard to differ the trolls from the real ignorant sometimes. I mean differ stupidity from ignorance. some trolls are just geniouses, though

  • @tehPete Nah, they'll just find new, more creative ways to troll.

  • 3:04 - 3:06 THATS WHAT SHE SAID!

  • Why couldn't it be used as a perpetual motion machine? There is no fuel source, nothing is running out. Yes the water vaporises but a simple distillation kit could quickly re-cycle it. Why can't this be used as an energy source? The power plant would be kind of creepy but nowhere near as dangerous as a nuclear one. Somebody please explain.

  • @HeatherMeadow LoL. It could be used to make energy..But even if this was made 1,000,000 larger it wouldn't be very good at it.

  • @HeatherMeadow I think it's something to do with the fact that when you use something to generate electricity, you always have resistance, and if there's resistance, there's loss of energy. I don't think this thing could keep on going if there were to be some resistance.

  • Fake!... u cant have perpetual motion. not in our lifetime anyway!

  • @CT2507

    Did you actually see the video?

    It's not a perpertual motion engine.

  • @Surtak i think it is a perpetual motion engine... or at least it has the potential!

    cheers.

  • @CT2507

    It doesn't matter what you think (or how irrational that statement was). IT is not a perpetual motion engine. LISTEN to the explanation, it is a perfectly (themodnamics)Law-abiding engine.

  • @Surtak Look. science is all about testing. i know science. if a test is not reproducible its not science!

    anyone can make claims. did u test this for yourself? i bet u it cant be done.

    before one has made thorough testtings, its better to do like the monkey and be quiet!

  • @CT2507

    Jezus farking Christ......

    LOOK AT THE FARKING VIDEO YOU IMBICILE! Is video evidence not good enough for you? Along with the explanation coming from a physics professor? You "know science" (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean) better than not only me, but also him is what you're telling me?

    Seriously, you're not even making any sense.

  • @Surtak hahaha... take it easy mate. don't burst a scientists blood-vessel now! :)

    was just teasing.

    had u there for a bit though, didn't i! :)

    cheers mate.. :))

  • @CT2507

    I'l just assume you're actually kidding then.

  • @Surtak yea... :)

    im practising to be a troll... don't take it personal! ;)

  • i HAVE THAT only he has legs i love him his my friend : - )

  • We have CH2Cl2 in the lab at work and it is some nasty stuff. When you open a bottle there actually is so much vapour that the bottle fizzes like when opening a bottle of cola. And when you pour it in a beaker for example, you can really see the vapour being poured out with it.

  • Says a lot about a person that's against religious people who use fiction when this person mentions fictions like cartoons and other movies. cope with it infallible one who always talks about being a part of a network when he profits from it while he pretends that he's not a part of a network when he profits for it: your relatives will be held responsible for cooperating or only accepting war warmongering and scheming of your system.

  • @screezwiitz I think i speak for everyone when i say, WTF are you talking about?

  • @limitlessreborn lol a year ago, i was in the same boat with you. But after taking thermodynamics, it all makes sense. I'm so suprised that Einstein couldn't figure it out

  • @jermspfan what? i dont give a shit about thermodynamics and i understand the video, read the guys comment that i replied to, it makes no sense. thats why i said what i said.

  • He was oddly excited to see the bird in the beginning of the video

  • 2:54 to 3:05 Thats what she said.

  • @Skittleushi rofl xD

  • LOL

    

  • "variously called the drinking doke the donking doke."

  • @henryguitarhero he was saying "drinking doug, the dunking doug"

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  • JUST NOW I was trying to remember how it worked and then this video showed up in my suggestions...perfect timing

  • @kristijanadrian well, among many problems, one problem that humans also have is the lack of knowledge about the universe and how it works, and additionally there is the problem of this almost irresistible quest for understanding. At least this solves some of those problems. Of course it can be used for solving other problems. But it's not just survival problems that make us human.. there is a lot more to being a human - and much of the art and sciences in human endeavor are about those.

  • starts explanation at 3:00

  • Wet

  • This must allow for pretty nice energy production no?

  • I think it is a chinese invention

  • Great video

  • Why isn't there a generator based off this technology?!

    :P

  • My last name is moriarty Tell phil he's cool. : )

  • those are some tight as glasses

  • Witchcraft!

  • @TriKri lol it seems

  • how doe's it go with bearings?

  • Theres one in the movie darkman starring liam neeson. Which is awesome.

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  • "Moriarty" why don't you go and do everything that you do for free? Ok, you could get paid by the social network of your country - since if your work's good the society would get more than you get from the society. Only giving the society as much as one gets isn't enough - because there are people that are only leechers - like bodily or socially disabled people who cannot act neither as peers (you get as much as you give) or seeders (get nothing or negative things but give a lot).

  • the energy problem is a pure hoax. just like the fake-climate-problem. as well as all the other "problems" and "crisis's" which are a setup by some ideologists who know how they suck out money from people they frightened before (you know: just like insurances: first they blow your mind with what might happen to you (fiction), then they tell you that they've got a solution for this ... you only have to pay them.

  • @screezwiitz wow you've done it, you've gotten to the bottom of it, now lets see SOME scrap of evidence supporting ANYTHING you just stated please.

  • @futurfry: can you bring me a tiny bit of evidence for the holocaust? no. oh, then you say that the holocaust didn't happen because you cannot show any real evidence nor I can bring you any evidence for the holocaust.

    Ok, bring me evidence - real evidence that black holes and all the other marketing crap those so called "scientists" of today put up exist. You can't even prove to me that molecules exist.

    And no go on loser since I'd never prove something new without getting paid before.

  • @screezwiitz first off, I could EASILY give you a piece of evidence from the holocaust, my great aunt. second, what the HELL does saying a black hole exists have to do with MARKETING? nothing, great job. Is the earth flat too? yeah, i bet it is, because gravity is just a "marketing" scheme that scientists made up, whatever the hell that means. Your just embarrassing yourself, and you make me want to kill myself knowing that i am of the same species as you.

  • @futurfry: so you really can't give any evidence. what do i care what your great aunt tells? she cannot prove anything with her stories. she cannot even prove that she didn't kill jews by herself and only pretends to be a jew like the zionists did and do while they do everything to damage the real jews.

    black hole and all the other stuff is speculative - and guess what the things are that the catholic church always spitted and spits out - the same: not proved not disproved - just like "god"

  • not only did "scientists" learn the marketing strategies but the apocalyptic ones the church used before. 95% of what they tell is wrong or neither provable nor disprovable (like - i typed it before - god). they're just like those raindoctors who predict rain one hundred times - then there's no rain 99 times while they're right one time - but people shouldn't care about the 99 times - only the one time is relevant and should lead to them being authorities.

  • or let's take the benefit of science for "humankind". of course certain parts of humankind disprofited largely. the ones who talk of humankind see themselves as humankind while in fact they see the others as mere objects. the same's true for the nazis who saw their actions as a benefit for "all" humans. with this trick those scientists try to keep calm the ones who disprofited from the "achievements" of science because they think that those scientists see them as humans.

  • and those scientists also act as if they see them like this in front of them. but with their actions they show that they use this as a technique for the survival of the fittest - just like the catholic church bluffs worldwide harmony in front of the "public eye".

    there will come a time when more people realize that political correctness is used in order to con others into their own deaths. but it gets fun to use the methods of the political correct ones against them...

  • ...with their reactions they show why they behave like they do. that's fun.

    by the way: jews never suffered anything. if it would have happened they should have defended themselves. therefore it's just a fake story that zionists did set up in order to control other people. everyone who only questions that it's only a story gets treated exactly as the story pretends that others were treated.

  • therefore you can prove that the story tellers are the nazis who subdue others simply because they don' t believe the things others tell them. and they don't show proof but they only show things that are arbitrary.

    jews are a religion. and to me even agnostics as well as atheists are religious. everybody who connects into a such inefficient groups is an asshole and i don't care about cowards that connect to groups in order to save themselves + to subdue smaller groups or individuals.

  • @screezwiitz and obviously the comment about me killing myself was sarcasm, i shouldn't have to spell that out for you.

  • @futurfry: of course afterwards one can reinterpret anything one says.

    now go and collaborate with your idea-less molecule of which you are

    a part. maybe you can cry to moriarty about your "aches".

  • @futurfry: nobody's responsible for you killing yourself. you obviously show obvious symptoms of neural disorder by telling in public that you want to kill yourself and try to make other people's texts responsible for this. never has any text, typed, written or said ever killed anyone nor has any text ever made someone killing or hurting someone else. such people who kill themselves or who want to hurt or kill others are neurally disordered. If you're not able for flaming you should seek help

  • @screezwiitz All that you just said seems really educated and persuasive, but your opinion is no more valid than the ones on this video, and you can prove to no one that they are. I asked for you to show me proof of what you stated, but you just started rambling about corrupted scientists and Zionists. Ive heard all of that before. you're not going to get me to suddenly believe that your right, although many of the things you said are similar to the things i have found.

  • @futurfry: everything that i type or write or say and that leads to profit for someone else: it will be paid. this money then will be invested in microcredits - and unlike moriarty - i check the ones i give my information, can't be diverted with manipulative prizes - and would kill one who misuses the things i enabled her or him. ok, first i would kill her or his kids - since there are always gaps where they stay unattended.

  • @screezwiitz none of what you said is relative to this conversations, therefore it is over.

  • @futurfry: no, every one is absolute. of course you try to divert. final is: if one manages to kill the scientists, developers and the entertainers - every war ends very soon. you can count on it since your countries fucked

    up with the countries on the asian continent. fact is: you're the actual mass murderers of innocent citizens (and

    i celebrate every time a western soldier gets neutralized). every one of the part of westerners you belong to can be neutralized without any further thought.

  • @screezwiitz what the hell are you even talking about? If you think your spitting the "truth," or spreading some message, your wrong. This is the fucking COMMENTS section of a fucking website. Ive never said this before, as It doesn't usually apply, but get a life.

  • @screezwiitz TROOOOOOOOOOL

  • @physicsbugga:"troll" the synonym for a certain connotation of "jew" used today (and via the web). guess what: people who have been born by parents that life from other people like yours do cannot do anything against the democratic movement (which has learned from the error the former members of the Jewish society did as they acted calm and rational against fascist like you are - we learned and only act human against humans - while even the children of fascists can be treated like objects).

  • one part of the world's energy problem is: people waste too much. i myself don't and reduced it to 10% of what the average private person uses (led lightbulbs, winter-fridge, and many other things that i will not tell because there's money in it for me).

  • The bird is the word.

  • i want one !

  • i want one!

  • I figured it out when I saw it on my science teacher's cabinet last year, before anyone explained it to me.

  • @appa609 Okay, that's cool. Now solve the world's energy problems. :)

  • You need to keep topping up the water, especially if the room is warm. 

    I got one for my sister last Christmas.

  • Are you Clive Owen???

  • ok so

    they dicholimethane evaporates and displaces the weight from the bottom to the head right?

    then it recondenses to make the bird go face up again right?

  • If you enarge this and add a few magents etc, could it be possible that this could become a machine that produces energy withough much to none energy lost?

  • so the "bird" doesn't actually take in any water?

  • @kristijanadrian "Why don't you do your whole stuff through the internet..."

    (i) That response doesn't begin to address my comment to you.

    (ii) The lecture slides + notes + problems + student feedback for my lecture courses have *always* been posted online. It would only have taken you a moment's research on Google to find this out (Google "Philip Moriarty lectures").

    But, then, why bother doing any research when you can just spout uninformed nonsense? That's so much easier...

  • @kristijanadrian

    Again, *what* are you on about? "Trivialize" my position? What, exactly, is "my position"?

    I find it remarkable that you are arguing that science can never be beneficial.... via the internet. How about this: Stop typing now. Dispose of your laptop/PC/PDA/iphone/cell phone. Go to your bathroom cabinet. Take out the contents and flush them down the toilet. Go to your main fusebox. Switch off your power.

    ...and then tell me that science is not worth the effort.

    Philip

  • @Moriarty2112 It's ok professor, people are fricken stupid these days lol

  • @kristijanadrian

    *What* are you on about? I can make no sense at all of your comment.

    Is it science/scientists in general that you have the problem with? If so, why? Were you somehow traumatised by a physics problem at school and have yet to recover?

    I take *deep* offence at being compared to Mengele. Are you going to retract this accusation? On what grounds can you compare my statements in a video on the physics of a drinking duck with the actions of Mengele?

    Philip Moriarty

  • I had one of those. Where it is now I haven't a clue.

  • @kristijanadrian "...the real destructive outcome of your efforts...you play the nice guy..."

    Indeed. I share the characteristics of my infamous namesake in those Arthur Conan Doyle novels: "...the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood..."

    Goddamit. You've rumbled my plans for world domination via the medium of...errmm... a five minute YouTube video.

    Back to the drawing board...

    Philip (speaking in the video)

  • The same thing happens with a half empty container of paint remover, the can contracts when it cools and expands when it warms up.

  • fuck thermodynamics!

  • i never realy thought about how this thing worked, but hell, einstein was not in fault here, if i hadnt watched this video, i probbly never would have figured this out :P knowing what i know now, it seems so simple, yet hard to come up with...

    great video

  • I'm sorry man but you did a horrible job of explaining how that works. Layman's terms bro.  Dicroamethbrah blah pressure dip blah blah. Come on man.

  • @acousticcarnival Some things just can't or shouldn't be dumbed down. If you're interested, do yourself a favour and find out more at, say, your local library.

  • is it perpetual? or is the water what cools it down so as soon as the water evaporates from the duck head it stops?

  • @belzamder From what I understand about this, the evaporation of the water cools down the head, which allows the vapor inside to condense, lowering the pressure.

    So, once the head goes completely dry, there is no longer any temperature difference and it should just stop.

  • @sven3728 but it never dries cuz it keeps going in

  • @XxWearsMexX But if you waited long enough, eventually enough water would evaporate, and the beak wouldn't reach the water. Besides, even though it's felt, I don't think the "sipping" motion would keep the whole head wet :p

  • maybe if i watch this video 100 more time i'll get it, but i dought it

  • @Zee96969696 doubt*

  • I see lot's of people falling over and getting back up for another beer... does this count LOL

  • i don't get it

  • @Zee96969696 Water absorbs heat when it evaporates, so the spongy head works both as a cooler and a reservoir. This cooling causes the constant change of pressure.

    When eventually the bird-head runs out of water to absorb it will stop working.

  • so when does the bird stop drinking?? does it run out of the fluid or something?

  • @renegade3355 fluid wont run out if its air tight

  • @1993gandy That's perfectly possible, but then the humidity of the room will increase to the point that the water will no longer evaporate and the cycle ends anyway.

  • @renegade3355

    it would stop, when the glass is empty or better when the head can not reach the water in the glass anymore. The Water is the "fuel"

  • I used to love these things! I didn't know they were still around.

  • Witchcraft. 

  • I almost choked laughing when he said "apart from on The Simpsons". Funny 'cause it's true.

  • Physics. I'd die for physics, among other thing, religion and nationalism. Is that a valid statement? :S

  • Where do I find one of those hanging drinking birds?

  • build a giant one and power the planet

    kthxbai!

  • Where can I buy one?

  • so im not the only 1 whos only ever seen this on the simpsons

  • im blinded by science

  • One of my earliest memories is of seeing one of these on a windowsill in a motorway service station! I must have been about 3-4

  • these things are so old! seen alot of em in my childhood tough

  • i ordered one on ebay. is it worth the money

  • wow its complicatedly simple. . .

  • It's actually very simple, but clever :O

  • Even though I've just seen it explained I'm not sure I could explain it to someone else!

    Excellent video.