Author Topic: can this boat sink? (Read 10032 times)

Industrial Cafe · « **on:** December 17, 2009, 04:17:21 PM »

if you poke a hole in a boat and the water squirts over the side, will it sink?

mlinder · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:24:35 PM »

Lol.

This is such a bad logic / physics question.

CycleRanger · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:30:00 PM »

Just ask these guys.

Judging from the shows lately they could use the input.

vanillagorilla · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:31:22 PM »

I am sure this is a joke, but I would say yes. No reason... Just think it would...

Mythbusters isn't what it used to be, but they do entertain... Of course by then, I have already been rendering brain cells dormant so....

mlinder · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:33:48 PM »

I'm just waiting for peoples hypotheses.
This should be entertaining.

mlinder · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:35:38 PM »

Quote from: myhondas on December 17, 2009, 04:33:04 PM

This is SAD ! Are these threads going to degress this far? Come on guys, can't you do better than this no reason, useless, waste of time, type of question?

Some people enjoy the logic process and brain puzzles, and I have to say that the occasional 'wtf' ones could be quite entertaining.

Seriously, these aren't hurting anyone, nor are the 'real' brain teasers.

Industrial Cafe · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:35:52 PM »

Quote from: myhondas on December 17, 2009, 04:33:04 PM

This is SAD ! Are these threads going to degress this far? Come on guys, can't you do better than this no reason, useless, waste of time, type of question?

HAHAHAA!!

I'm watching hotshots part deux, and topper harley digs a hole in the boat with his knife.

try not to smile or anything.

Quote from: mlinder on December 17, 2009, 04:33:48 PM

I'm just waiting for peoples hypotheses.
This should be entertaining.

me too.

mystic_1 · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:36:36 PM »

No the boat won't sink. The end-result of your proposed scenario is the same as pumping the water overboard with a bilge pump at the same rate that it's flowing into the boat, which happens in the real world like all the time.

mystic_1

Industrial Cafe · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:38:24 PM »

I know, shh...

mlinder · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:40:26 PM »

Removed

mystic_1 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:44:42 PM »

I know, shh...

mystic_1

MötleyRöx · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:45:50 PM »

hondas... you're just upset because your afraid to give an answer so you must belittle the question.

Water pressure is water pressure, if there is no water in the boat, it will not sink... there will always be buoyancy in this situation.

mlinder · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:48:35 PM »

Removed

Industrial Cafe · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:49:55 PM »

what about the little splashes?

eventually it'll sink.

someone has to be thinking it

mlinder · « **Reply #14 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:52:30 PM »

Quote from: MötleyRöx on December 17, 2009, 04:50:37 PM

The qualifiers were set... there are no more.
You can not define the question more than it was asked, OR IT WILL NOT BE THE SAME QUESTION.

PM being sent, Motley, dun wanna ruin the fun here.

MötleyRöx · « **Reply #15 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:52:50 PM »

But, i'll have a go... if the pressure is enough to sling water over the boat... that boat is sinking damn fast!

BeSeeingYou · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:55:52 PM »

If the water pressure was high enough it could shoot the water far enough so that it would not reenter the lake. Then as you gradually pumped all the water out of the lake the boat would eventually rest on the bottom of the lake and you could argue that it has sunk.

Industrial Cafe · « **Reply #17 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:56:40 PM »

maybe it's a shallow and very heavy boat.
like a dingy with a bus on it.

clarkjh · « **Reply #18 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:57:54 PM »

Yes it will sink. It only floats because water displacement.

James

cb650 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 17, 2009, 04:58:38 PM »

If its made out of something real boyant it wont sink anyway. Will be wet though.

mlinder · « **Reply #20 on:** December 17, 2009, 05:03:55 PM »

I'm going to remove my earlier post, I want to see what people come up with.

sangyo soichiro · « **Reply #21 on:** December 17, 2009, 05:06:22 PM »

Quote from: Industrial Cafe on December 17, 2009, 04:17:21 PM

if you poke a hole in a boat and the water squirts over the side, will it sink?

I don't think I fully understand the question...
Is the hole poked in the bottom of the boat? And you're asking, if the water comes up through the hole, will the boat still float or sink?

mlinder · « **Reply #22 on:** December 17, 2009, 05:07:50 PM »

Quote from: soichiro on December 17, 2009, 05:06:22 PM

Quote from: Industrial Cafe on December 17, 2009, 04:17:21 PM
if you poke a hole in a boat and the water squirts over the side, will it sink?

I don't think I fully understand the question...
Is the hole poked in the bottom of the boat? And you're asking, if the water comes up through the hole, will the boat still float or sink?

He's asking if the hole was poked in the bottom of the boat, and that water had enough pressure to be shot outside the boat, would it sink....
Don't ruin it with the obvious, Soi

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #23 on:** December 17, 2009, 05:08:50 PM »

If the water entering through the hole has enough pressure to be pumped straight out of the boat it will be the same as if there were no hole at all, sounds like a few of you guys have never been in a boat before. As was already said, it would be like having a leak and having a bilge pump on pumping the water back out, as long as the bilge pump pumps the water at or more than the rate it enters the boat IT WILL NOT SINK.....Since the hole pumps the exact volume of water entering the hole out of the boat IT WILL NOT SINK..

Mick

sangyo soichiro · « **Reply #24 on:** December 17, 2009, 05:10:11 PM »

Quote from: myhondas on December 17, 2009, 04:33:04 PM

This is SAD ! Are these threads going to degress this far? Come on guys, can't you do better than this no reason, useless, waste of time, type of question?

I don't understand your reaction. Seems like a good physics question to me. And one that you may want to know the answer to if you go boating (do I stick with the ship, or start swimming...).

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