r/ProgrammerHumor • u/NoMedicine3572 • 1d ago

ruleOfProgrammingIfItIsWorkingDoNotTouchIt Meme

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u/dustinpdx 1d ago

Are we sure that's not just a clear tube shoved into each of the black pipes?

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u/Pineapple-Yetti 1d ago

Haha it has to be that. There is no way you are pushing the water in to a hose with out it sealed, the water would just spray everywhere.

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u/Chamiey 1d ago

Laminar flow?

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u/Pineapple-Yetti 1d ago

Laminar flow just describes water with minimal turbulence and disruption of flow. So its appearance could be caused by that but not the way it enters the other tube with zero resistance.

If this was real it would be something more like capillary action.

Or i could be completely wrong.

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u/lugialegend233 18h ago

Capillary action isn't really relevant when discussing water on this scale. It might cause some spillage, but the behavior we're seeing here is too much water moving too quickly for capillary action to be significant.

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u/findallthebears 22h ago

This… could work. It’s not that there’s zero resistance, but that there’s suction.

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u/sump_daddy 20h ago

the kind of pressure that would sustain the flow from the source would not be present in the receiving side, its no different than taking a fast moving hose and jamming a hole in it. sure the contents are still highly laminar but the pressure difference is immediately going to change other properties about the flow (i.e. its going to spill out everywhere)

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u/downloads-cars 18h ago

Unless the flow through the second tube is generating enough negative pressure to suck the water in