• Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    I read your comment, then went to make a joke response to someone else about placing a vacuum chamber inside the case to reduce its buoyancy.
    This set off a several minute long internet hunt where I learned about Archimedes Principle, which you clearly describe. It turns out the only vacuum here is the one in my head.

    To wit: If placed inside the case, my empty head would reduce the buoyancy, but only by its own weight.
    A Pyrrhic victory.

    • Paradux@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      My boy Archie figured some stuff out a long time ago! Unfortunately he didn’t get the story straight about phlogiston