How do electronics in Australia work - Page 1
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author: Phaedrus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 13, 2013, 05:51:56 pm
content: Wouldn't the electrons all fall out the top, since you're upside-down? Or do you just stack all your stereos and such with the feet up?

author: dfmischler
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timestamp: December 13, 2013, 06:10:17 pm
content: Quote from: Phaedrus on December 13, 2013, 05:51:56 pmDon't be silly. Their voltage is twice ours, so the additional "pressure" keeps the electrons from falling out of the wires.

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 13, 2013, 06:14:31 pm
content: Quote from: dfmischler on December 13, 2013, 06:10:17 pmNah, the voltage makes the electrons go faster, see, we're from the future in Australia, here specifically, it's GMT+10, the voltage helps the electrons keep up. Upside down stereos though? Nah, it's fine mate, even though gravity is a bit wonky round these parts, earths magnetic field is all well and good, it keeps the electrons on the straight and narrow.

author: Mr Smiley
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timestamp: December 13, 2013, 07:17:44 pm
content: They know the sky is always up

author: Wytnucls
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timestamp: December 13, 2013, 08:12:44 pm
content: Quote from: Phaedrus on December 13, 2013, 05:51:56 pmThe problem was solved by angling the plug prongs down, thus preventing the electrons from flying off into thin air.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 13, 2013, 08:26:58 pm
content: Quote from: Wytnucls on December 13, 2013, 08:12:44 pmWell that makes sense now. I've always been told when you hang a horse shoe over your door for good luck you point it up so your luck doesn't run out. Since Australia is facing the other way, you have to do the opposite.

author: TerraHertz
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timestamp: December 13, 2013, 09:12:25 pm
content: It's also quite clever the way web browsers automatically invert pages from the opposite side of the Earth from where you're viewing them, so everything looks right side up.

author: Phaedrus
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timestamp: December 13, 2013, 09:18:06 pm
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on December 13, 2013, 09:12:25 pmThe latency contributes to Australia's slow internet speeds.

author: deth502
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timestamp: December 13, 2013, 10:07:09 pm
content: i heard that when you play a cd/dvd in australia, it spins the opposite way.

author: c4757p
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timestamp: December 13, 2013, 10:11:46 pm
content: Quote from: deth502 on December 13, 2013, 10:07:09 pmGrowing up upside-down leads to development of "backwards hearing". The CD player must reverse the sound to compensate; it sounds correct to an Australian.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 13, 2013, 10:49:28 pm
content: you just need counterspinning electrons

author: c4757p
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timestamp: December 13, 2013, 10:59:52 pm
content: Quote from: wilfred on December 13, 2013, 10:58:58 pmWhat, do y'all stand on your heads or something?

author: xygor
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 13, 2013, 11:36:59 pm
content: Ask Dr. Science. He knows more than you do.Dear Dr. Science,If the world is round, why aren't people falling off the bottom? --Inversion Impaired.Dear Inversion Impaired,You have stated a common misconception. People are falling off all the time....

author: notsob
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timestamp: December 14, 2013, 12:51:21 am
content: Fairly obvious, it's due to the spin rotation of the electrons similar to the way low pressure systems rotate in the atmosphereelectrons in the northern hemisphere are levorotatoryelectrons in the southern hemisphere are dextrorotatoryand at the equator you have a racemic mix of electrons

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 14, 2013, 01:09:05 am
content: Quote from: c4757p on December 13, 2013, 10:11:46 pmThat must have been how the rest of us found all those hidden messages in the Beatles and Led Zeppelin albums, someone must have moved and took their records with them.

author: calexanian
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timestamp: December 14, 2013, 01:35:07 am
content: Quote from: free_electron on December 13, 2013, 10:49:28 pmThey just run everything off of positrons... Its why stuff you send down there blows up with you plug it in.

author: c4757p
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timestamp: December 14, 2013, 01:40:23 am
content: That would also explain why Dave's always afraid of the electrons falling out. That could be very, very bad if they're using positrons down there.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 14, 2013, 01:50:00 am
content: Quote from: c4757p on December 14, 2013, 01:40:23 amDIY PET scan!

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 14, 2013, 01:55:18 am
content: Quote from: Stonent on December 14, 2013, 01:50:00 amThis is a truly frightening combination of words.Seems more like Mike's Electric Stuff territory, anyway. He's already had two X-ray machines, now it's time for a PET scanner!No need for radioactive crap, we can just get Dave to send him some Aussie copper wire and he can pour out the positrons.

author: Fsck
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timestamp: December 14, 2013, 02:08:11 am
content: Quote from: c4757p on December 14, 2013, 01:55:18 amthe positrons in a pet scan come from the injected tracer so you couldn't really salvage them from the wire

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 14, 2013, 02:10:54 am
content: Quote from: Fsck on December 14, 2013, 02:08:11 amEh, you could just prick yourself with the wire a few times. It should work. We'll let the biomed engineers work out the implementation details.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 14, 2013, 03:11:25 am
content: Quote from: c4757p on December 14, 2013, 01:55:18 amOne problem is the power required. My mom used to work in doctor's office complex that had a PET scan truck that would come a few times a month. The power receptacle was about as big around as a coffee can.

author: TMM
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timestamp: December 14, 2013, 03:22:21 am
content: Quote from: Wytnucls on December 13, 2013, 08:12:44 pmYep, this is why china uses the same plug upside down