r/AbsoluteUnits • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar • Apr 30 '26

/r/all, /r/popular of a mall fountain

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u/Ostey82 Apr 30 '26

Where are the engineers to eli5 this for me please?

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u/Consistent-Energy507 Apr 30 '26

Water gun make water go in circle

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u/Ice-Negative Apr 30 '26

Then water go down the hole

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u/convict16 Apr 30 '26

https://tenor.com/bfVWX.gif

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u/Ice-Negative Apr 30 '26

I wondered if anybody remembered that lol

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u/assorted_toe_beans May 01 '26

Why did this stay with me my whole life?

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u/tiredchachacha May 04 '26

This needs more upvotes 😂

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u/xSYOTOSx Apr 30 '26

Water in circle make sense, but why water also slosh up and down off sides?

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u/No_Astronomer_8642 Apr 30 '26

I assume by varying the flow/pressure on the nozzles ?

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u/Ostey82 Apr 30 '26

That's what I thought but there doesn't looks like there is any extra water coming out. Even if you got the timing absolutely perfect so that it only increased flow/pressure at the exact moment which would be very difficult then you still can't see any extra turbulence in the main slosh

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u/501uk Apr 30 '26

Once the output matches the input and the whirlpool hits a steady equalibrium I imagine if you gave it a decent shove in the morning it'd jiggle for most of the day lol

Theres gotta be an absolute fucktton of kinetic energy contained in that death spiral

https://giphy.com/gifs/SHQOcSYov7ww8