Sam Harrelson

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Would a Lava Lamp Work on Jupiter?

Would a Lava Lamp work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter?
Would the wax still rise to the surface? Would the blobs be smaller and faster?
With broad disagreement on the answers, I built a large centrifuge to find out.

I love that he calculates the G’s using a Nexus One.

Yay Science.

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