Amaze Your Friends with this Cool Fake Water Trick!!!!

By Thursday February 17, 2011



40 Comments
  1. Uncle Dave says:
    2/18/2011 at 7:06 am

    #14: You’re on the right track, only it doesn’t need all that. A good 3D graphics program to create the ‘water’ and then composite it into the video using something like Mocha using After Effects.

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  2. JustPassingThru says:
    2/18/2011 at 7:08 am

    Amazing how a cup inside a cup will keep water inside it when the outside cup is removed….

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  3. JoaoPT says:
    2/18/2011 at 7:22 am

    #21
    You can use OSSoftware like Blender.
    These days you can do almost anything with free software and OSes… with a steeper learning curve though…

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  4. OvenMaster says:
    2/18/2011 at 8:50 am

    #4: All I said was “disprove”. Others did so: video software.

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  5. McCullough says:
    2/18/2011 at 8:56 am

    Actually, the secret is in the Pink Flamingos….they’re like magical Unicorns.

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  6. Eric_D says:
    2/18/2011 at 9:20 am

    It’s an obvious hoax because water is a liquid! It can have surface tension, and the video seems to suggest that that’s what’s making hold the shape.

    Surface tension can out-gun gravity only up to a point. Ever noticed that droplets on a surface only ever get so big. That’s the limit of surface tension in water.

    Also notice that droplets always assume a spherical, pseudo-spherical or semi-spherical shape.

    In space, you get bigger droplets. Much bigger, but they still form sphere-ish shapes.

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  7. 1873 Colt says:
    2/18/2011 at 12:25 pm

    I tried this and it did not work. What am I doing wrong? My water spilled all over the place, and went into my brand new iPad while it was turned on, and ruined it. Then I tried it again, and it went all over my Renoir etching which I had hanging next to the table. Then I tried it again and the water went all over my just acquired first edition of the Gutenberg Bible. What am I doing wrong?

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  8. McCullough says:
    2/18/2011 at 12:29 pm

    You were SUPPOSED to use the iPad instead of cardboard dummy.

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  9. daladams says:
    2/18/2011 at 12:48 pm

    Only works if your a Republican

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  10. steve says:
    2/18/2011 at 2:33 pm

    do i need a special brand of water? can i do it with beer,buurrp?!

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  11. steve says:
    2/18/2011 at 2:34 pm

    i used salt water and it stayed up almost 4 minutes,but the table has to be perfectly level and smooth.

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  12. usa1 says:
    2/18/2011 at 4:03 pm

    I tried it 4 times with tap water and it did not work. I got some distilled water like the video said and it worked after 3 attempts. It lasted about 15 seconds. Amazing!

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  13. Rob Leather says:
    2/18/2011 at 4:07 pm

    I think what I love the most about this, isn’t that people are saying it’s a hoax. It’s the fact that they are going into detail about WHY it is a fake.

    As though there are people out there who actually believe it’s possible and they need to put them right.

    Incidentally, I got the trick working. Only I swapped out the water for jello (jelly in the UK). That works fine, and it’s delicious as well.

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  14. steve says:
    2/18/2011 at 6:20 pm

    its really important to spin counterclockwise if your in the northern hemisphere and counter in the south.have to work with the Coriolis effect.

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  15. Buckwheat says:
    2/18/2011 at 7:10 pm

    It makes it easier if you remember to spray the glass with WD-40 before you put in the water!

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  16. deowll says:
    2/18/2011 at 7:21 pm

    A year or so back I took some pictures during some minor flooding while parked in my car. I noticed spots on the pictures. It took a few seconds before I realized they were raindrops falling rather than water spots on the windows or the camera lens. On my big high resolution monitor I found beautiful frozen images of water droplets falling: beautiful clear spheres.

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  17. Johnny Storm says:
    2/18/2011 at 8:34 pm

    This works best using gasoline on a table with several burning candles.

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  18. Rick says:
    2/18/2011 at 9:38 pm

    Well at least he wasn’t recommending mixing bleach and ammonia.

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  19. Awake says:
    2/19/2011 at 1:41 pm

    The title days it all: “Fake” water trick.

    How the hell could the smooth inner surface of the cup impart any rotation at all to the water in the cup, specially when you are spinning the cup maybe a half turn?

    How does he break the vacuum on the water as the cup is lifted?

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  20. CarrieA says:
    3/5/2011 at 1:25 pm

    Look at the “water” level in the cup right before he lifts it off the counter. Then look at the water level at 1:49… that explains it all right there.

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