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Any theories?

Ninjas make great pets

10:40 / 28.05.03

the other day whilst cleaning up in work we noted how the room looked bigger after being hoovered. If this is the case then the room must have appeared smaller due to the layer of dust on the floor.
Now I figure we loose about half a foot of visual area for every 1 millimeter layer of dust. So the more dust the smaller the room right?
So what if the dust was, by some heavy press means, supercompressed? and for this superdust we lost 3 feet to every 1 mil layer?
and.. the outside of the Tardis is awfully dusty.. coincidence?

just a thought.

Sax

10:54 / 28.05.03

It's the losing half a foot of visual area for every one millimetre of dust bit you're going to have to explain to me before I get in any way involved in this.

Ninjas make great pets

11:10 / 28.05.03

umm basically. I was saying if you have 1 millimetres of dust on the floor then the room will appear half a foot smaller. Is all.

no real physcial basis for it just something I noticed for fun.

12:19 / 28.05.03

the other day whilst cleaning up in work we noted how the room looked bigger after being hoovered.

That's because you have to pick up all the piles of stuff off the floor to vacuum it!

Whisky Priestess

12:33 / 28.05.03

No no, this is clearly a pressure thing. When you vacuumed the room you sucked air (and dust) out of it into the hoover, lowering the pressure in the room as opposed to outside, which meant that the room had to expand slightly to accomodate ... hang on, I've got it wrong. The room should be shrinking, not expanding ... damn! It's high pressure vessels that expand when there's low pressure around them, which is why people's eyeballs burst in hard vacuum. Sorry, I can't explain it then.

Ninjas make great pets

12:36 / 28.05.03

No it was the DUST!
*mutters* dust makes things small, yes yes makes things dissappear no one sees the dust coming its everywhere he he the dust the dust

Why wont you beleive me?!

No No its Here!!!

AAAaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!

Some one please call the DustBusters!!

Saint Keggers

14:22 / 28.05.03

I've got a theory..it could be dustbunnies,
They're not a harmless as everybody supposes,
they irritate our eyes and give us runny noses.
And what's with all the hidding?
Why do they need to be behind the desk anyway?
Dust Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be dust bunnies!!!

Mourne Kransky

14:34 / 28.05.03

Quentin Crisp gave us all hope when he declared that "After the first four years, the dust doesn't get any worse".

Of course, by then you could be crouched in a corner, looking at the exit through a telescope, fighting back an aggressive beard.

waxy dan

14:50 / 28.05.03

Kegboy, I just laughed my ass right out of my jeans and onto the dusty floor with that one!

Ninjas make great pets

14:58 / 28.05.03

Yep!

bwaa ha ha Bwaaa ha ha haa *slip* Eeeek! *blush*

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:13 / 28.05.03

It's because dust is 90% made of of tiny evil aliens, who don't have enough floorspace on their planet so they have to steal chuncks of ours. They use miniature evil rays that suck up space from your room and send it through an interdimentional wormhole so they can build conservatories and small bijou extensions on their houses. When you hoover the dust up, all their equiptment gets smashed up and the stolen space pops back into our dimension, thus returning the room to its true size.

waxy dan

15:31 / 28.05.03

Then how come we don't end up with tiny-winy sets of lounge furniture and eetsy-beetsy pool tables and the like?

Eh?

I think your theory sounds highly improbable.

Saveloy

15:46 / 28.05.03

waxy dan> all the furniture is actually 10 times bigger than it appears, but no one hoovers their furniture, do they? And no one has dusted anything since 1953, when Elvis erupted onto the scene and everyone was too busy shaking their hips to waste time on that sort of thing. No one hoovered either, until the introduction of Shake-n-Vac, which made it possible to clean and wiggle to Elvis.

waxy dan

15:57 / 28.05.03

So Shake-n-Vac is some Conspiracy X backlash against evil tiny pan-dimensional Elvis fans?

Fair 'nuff.

Olulabelle

16:56 / 28.05.03

Then how come we don't end up with tiny-winy sets of lounge furniture and eetsy-beetsy pool tables and the like?

We do. That's the dust. Furniture takes longer to get through to our dimension, don't you know anything? The dust is really teeny tiny ironing boards and weeny bean bags and things. Alien clutter to clutter up our BIG rooms and make them small.

William Sack

19:57 / 28.05.03

If dust in a room does something to space then I think grass in a garden does something to time. I now mow my lawn regularly and it makes me feel as though I have aged about 20 years.

Linus Dunce

22:23 / 28.05.03

Maybe it's because, in cleaning the room, you become more aware of it as a space and more aware of the little details. Thus, there is more of it in your head. Just a theory.

BTW, I thought that it was only in Total Recall that your eyes would explode in a vacuum. They're full of liquid, which wouldn't be noticeably compressed. Having said that, you would get massively bent and be picking your eardrums off the wall :-)

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