New insights in penguin physics

[jtbell]

TL;DR

Two Japanese scientists have published a paper containing a diagram that physics students everywhere will recognize from their intro physics textbook.

Projectile Trajectory of Penguin’s Faeces and Rectal Pressure Revisited (PDF, ArXiv)

There's an even better diagram related to fluid pressure, but I'll let you see it in the paper.

 

[ZapperZ]

I'm not touching this even with a 10-foot dead sardine! (Do they even grow that big?)

Zz.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Do they even grow that big?

Not while they're dead.

 

[Ibix]

Do I sense a possible IgNobel nomination?

 

[kuruman]

Where is the comparison with experimental results?

 

[kuruman]

Do I sense a possible IgNobel nomination?

Not unless they have received a grant to travel to Antarctica to do "hands on" research.

 

[anorlunda]

Save that one to use an the answer for the next time someone asks, "What do scientists do all day?"

 

[A.T.]

Projectile Trajectory of Penguin’s Faeces and Rectal Pressure Revisited

Revisited? How many papers on penguin’s fecal ballistics have I missed?

 

[Ibix]

Where is the comparison with experimental results?

Their data was cr... (ahem) crud.

 

[berkeman]

Not unless they have received a grant to travel to Antarctica to do "hands on" research.

F=ma, Baby!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b9/0b/2c/b90b2ce7d1661ce350d79564936f57a0.gif

 

[shjacks45]

Linux fanboy promoting the ferocity of OS mascots (Apple is Tiger or Leopard or something) pointed out how scary a Penguine belching after 40# of herring, now Linux fans have another facet to how ferocious Penguins are.