Pythagoras Cup (Greedy Cup) filled with Mercury 

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Why not fill it with Vegetable Oil so that they won't die?

it would be a pretty cool aesthetic to use bio-luminescent plankton

the "upside" of the filling the bottom with mercury is moot. From what I can see from the cup, even if the mercury stays at the bottom, the actual amount of wine filled would still be the same as the amount without the mercury in the cup (before being siphoned from the bottom)

Pythagoras: well you see, since there's Mercury in the cup, there's less water, so the amount is pretty much the same ye smartasses

Something for Socrates then.

Rei D T yeah but you don’t need nearly as much mercury as they showed

@@drawbras No, Socrates drank hemlock, not mercury, and he drank that hemlock because he didn't worship Mercury.

According to @@reidt182 pythagros wins, he also succeeded in making you poison yourself. Well done.

Luciano Nooijen Your avatar makes it look like you're being sarcastic.

Bricks Of Awesome He is, video has no point really.

Thmyris Other than to educate, entertain, and open one's mind up to new ideas from old technology. Clearly the concept behind these videos is outside the realm of your limited comprehension. Go back to watching whatever senseless drivel passes for entertainment in your narrow minded world.

Luciano Nooijen U-Tube*

Luciano Nooijen Yes! I was looking for this! :D

I bet he smells like science too

And how would that be? (We all know how you must smell then)

Like...lab stuff. Latex and Bunsen burners warming up boiling tubes.

IT would climb right up the tube, you know.

I'd say it would shatter the glass before you had a chance to pour in too much :P

LOBLord of Bonkles : Not just mythology-Socrates was forced to drink poison.

ErykaSoleil Oof

Why not use compacted clay?

As a greek, that sounds pretty accurate

@@armchairphilosopher6880 why not just plug the hole then?

Aye, It really brings out your inner creativity.

I have doubts.

@Bruzel Azcriarati German joke

I bet they didn't give you any mercury, either. Failing indeed!

@@Blade_Of_Heaven doubts are things that don't exist

But you want to embarrass the students

@@Sentient_Blob make them look like a dumbass for being greedy

They are hard to drink from and refills get past the problem

Just drink from the bottle

Giving the students smaller cups doesn't teach the students self control. They'd just learn to fill the cup to the top no matter the cup size. This teaches them their actions has consequences, but more directly. Then again, we live in an era that instead of teaching kids not to stab each other with scissors they just give students plastic scissors to stab each other with.

Mauro Molinero *hold cup with an uncomfortable grip* Pythagoras: “why are you such a burden?”

Zipity student: drinks straight from the bottle Pythagoras: *_stOP_*

Student: _Drinks from the hole in the bottom_ Pythagoras: *Why are you like this?*

poor Pythagoras

Student: *put's a plug in the bottom hole* Pythagoras: *IMPOSSIBLE*

....k

Normal people trade IQ for hair colour.

@@snowjix Do you think it like that because you think you're different from others

@@demiray1097 Do you see yourself as an exact copy of everybody else?

@@snowjix I think you dont understand what I'm talking about or you're just joking

Modern Einstein?

@@jdgshsjchdjejkd545 id ot

there is at least one new person here who didn‘t see him before and says that, and that‘s a great thing, too

A borderline Mad Scientist, but a very likable gentleman. :)

@@chara5 imagine a collaboration between this guy and Bill Nye

and thus the first shotgun was invented.

why does he have beer but not wine?

@@qo7052 cuz pythagoras is a homie

lol I read this as that happened.

Themselves. Just saying.

It's okay, they just want to follow a similar path to Socrates, they just prefer a slower, far more destructive death of their psych firat.

I would have filled the hole inside the cup with candle wax, or simply over fill it and quickly drink it all. ;D

chili cheesemf not necessary

u-ception

448

Lul

95Titanium It's actually symbolic of how RU-vid siphons money out of its users.

@@e5a Youception*

*chug, chug, chug, chug, chug*

Oh hey, didnt expect to see you here xD

Let me guess chugoras made chugging

@@AbsoluteAbsurd Are you following me? Or are we both following the recommended tab XD

TokuTickler I swear im not xD I just happen to see you everywhere too. Its not weird tho right?

Said Chammas Not necessarily. If my understanding of physics is correct, you should be able to cheat in an amount of water/wine that is of equal mass to the amount of mercury that would “fill” the glass. To maximize wine, you only need enough mercury to fill to the top (without going over), plus enough mercury at the bottom to prevent water from entering the siphon. If the glass were engineered with a very thin siphon, you could use next to no mercury and fill the cup to over 13 times the allowed volume (given the geometry of the glass allowed that much wine; this is theoretical to show a point). Given you’re only trying to fill an extra fraction of the allowed volume, you essentially only need enough mercury to cover the aperture to the siphon. If you imagine a cylinder and use the first cup as a reference, the height above the top of the siphon is significantly greater than the diameter of the siphon. Given the siphon has a roughly circular cross-section and is doubled up on itself, it’s very hard to think the opening is taller than the amount of wine to gain. Even with the most conservative of rough estimates, that particular glass would fill to compensate for the mercury’s volume, then allow for an extra volume of wine equal to that of the mercury. Given an optimal functioning vessel utilizing the same principle, the theoretical limit to this ratio is ludicrous. Very little mercury (a negligible amount considering the total volume) to tredecuple your allowed wine and then some.

He used a lot more mercury than was necessary; once you block the hole you only need 1/13th the height of drink you want in additional mercury

if you used mercury you could just fill the tube and not the glass. i could be wrong but i don’t think you need that much mercury outside the tube like you see in the video

@@limepop340 What he's saying in a complicated way: Mercury is about 13 times denser than water. So to push mercury one inch up a tube, you need 13 inches of water. If you want the mercury not to be pushed over the u tube, you thus need enough mercury such that the difference of water vs mercury pished is a bit more than the distance between the u turn and the top of the glass. So you need about 1/13th of that distance in mercury. The diamateter of the tube is irrelevant as long as it's smaller than that distance.

except that it isnt

@@TheQueerSpaghetti just chug chug chug

Sounds kind of kinky.

It would probably work best as a surprise.

As the cup bottom is not flat, that wouldn't work!

Drink from bottle.

Because you can't fill a cup to the top and safely drink it... it will spill. Since there is always room someone will always try to get a little bit more regardless of how small it is. It is the same idea with money. People will try to skirt around laws to get more even when having more has no benefit to them... any law we create they would find a new loop hole or if the law was too strict it hurts everyone hence they fight it in court to remove it. A great and simple example is that we can't limit how much a person makes in a year to stop people from getting billions while their employees get nothing... because then the lottery and gambling can't happen. The people who use those things will be upset and fight said law, along with the people who run those things, and of course the people who get billions would fight it as well. The exception to this would be create something which solely punishes people from the inside... of course this then leads to people using multiple cups and so forth. The only way to get around this is to ruin someone's reputation (Their cup spilling) and hence making everyone distrust them or dislike them and blaming them for the reason we can't sneak more... and people will be less likely to try to get around it as they risk basically losing everything. Of course a new cup has to be endlessly designed... to compensate for the new cheaters. An unfortunately endless battle.

Dragoonsoul7878 if I said “you must be great at parties” I’d probably get wooshed

Dragoonsoul7878 idc

Pretty sure it's more about restraint than the actual amount.

@@Buglin_Burger7878 I love your comment.

it was rude in these times :D

@@mariovalusiak2969 really?

@@Fred_the_1996 I heard the same thing, and it wasn't exclusive to ancient Greece. I can't name any sources (so its probably made up) but basically when you where invited to someone else's house (or were offered wine by someone else in general) and brought your own cup you were implying that you dont trust this person and thought he was going to poison you. In ancient times poison was not put into the drink (at least not commonly) but rather they would rub the poison on the inside of the cup the victim was supposed to drink from.

Or plug the hole

Or they could fill a little mercury

I mean pythagoras did have a cult.

@@kennarajora6532 and thats the loophole

I believe most mythologies would argue that if you try to outsmart the gods, you get punished for it. I'm sure the Greek gods would have loved Pythagoras' cup.

No, the moral is never drink from a cup. It's a classic blunder. Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Technically alcohol is also a poison lol

Actually, there is another way to fill the cup completely. Stop up the hole in the bottom with bees wax. It is non-toxic, and it will prevent the air in the tube from being displaced, which in turn will prevent the water/wine traveling up the tube in the first place.

I couldn’t have said it better myself

I love how your comment is just 2 days ago but got 116 likes, that means more and more people are aware of science 👍

Beth Johnathan No, it just means that RU-vid’s algorithm doesn’t work

Beth Johnathan I didn’t even know it had likes until you replied 😂

@@tannercortez yo did u really leave that comment only 2 days ago?

@@rittenbrake1613 Unless youtube is lying. Up to 216 now :O

Or you could just plug the exit whole with your finger

Or something that is heavier than water, like pretty much anything

Jacob R It has to be a liquid

@@yaykruser true

@@yaykruser or you could just stuff the opening with cloth, or you could just not use the cup.

Students: "Yeah, but at least we were still able to scoff all your wine!" 😝

Back in the day, they didn't have bottles. If they were smart they would just plug the hole with their finger or something.

Words of Dionysus

Or drink from the bottom

i shotgun a lot of cans so this is acceptable too

If they were smart, they would just overfill and drink from the bottom.

Put those lips to the bottom of the glass and shotgun it

Why not just block the whole at the bottom with ur finger..

why not drink it out of the jug you're pouring the wine out of

Chug! Chug! Chug! Man. College ruled back then, too.

You are coming up with remarkable ways to defeat this ancient high-tech device.

Clever comment 👏

A U-tube in a RU-vid!

Lel

So true.

RU-vid RU-vid everywhere even inside this cup at 1:49 ;) In order to circumvent this tricky cup, I would have filled the hole inside with candle wax, or simply over fill it and quickly drink it all (course not the mercury). ;D

That only demonstrates how greedy we are

no one goes looking for a hole in a cup

@@JaveLester No that just demonstrates how smart we are actually

Then make it a pinhole.

@@man.i.literally.failed6772 no one goes filling a cup with mercury either

And then he gets Mercury poisoning and dies a vegetable

I'm not sure I understand this fully, if no one poured mercury in wouldn't it just limit how much could be put in?

yeah bruh dont give him any mercury :P

@jack daniels yeah, the thing that confused me was XyW saying someone drinking from the cup would give them mercury poisoning and I thought there was just inherent mercury always in the cup, sometimes I just overthink things I guess

Lol your pfp is a google image

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Wow you're so funny and original

@@PASTELXENON wow, you're so funny and original

wow everyone is so funny and original

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Wow no one cares if you don't like it, that's the problem.

STAHP

the einstein one?

Hmm…

Are you the microwave from black mesa?

You soaf f*cked up the Magnusson's magnificent microwave casserole

Thats what you get for getting smart students

imagine if the students were actually supposed to do that and the students have more iq than 25% of the ppl in the world currently

Same student: gets to much again Also student: chugs wine before it drains

Just get some clay and stick it on the bottom of the cup, problem solved.

He can just not allow refills

@@skelet8337 But how would he control that? They clearly pour their own wine.

The student that drinks out of the drain: I am inevitable.

The student who drinks out of the bottle: "Finally, a worthy opponent"

I want this on a T-shirt with the Pythagorean cup beneath it!

Anne Staff imAGINE AHAHAHHSHSAJJA that would be amazing

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nice

Hahahahahahha, that was legit funny. 😂

it is, its a joke device.

"Yo yo It's just a prank bro! " ---pythagoras

Wine filling prank (gone wrong) (gone sexual)

@@siddhanthravichandran3245 2 scholars 1 cup

Oh but it is

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@@Milly7119 Hi pain, my close friend. :)

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@@EthanAdey r u ok

i, of cause am no expert but i thought pure mercury wasn't that dangerous anyway because we can't digest it anyway so it just goes through and that mercury also doesn't dissolve in water/ wine so actually nothing would have happened. actually.

Is it really a downside?

D.M. Koelen i dont think so

random happens here oh sorry that wasn’t me,i am not d.m. Koelen

i, of cause am no expert but i thought pure mercury wasn't that dangerous anyway because we can't digest it anyway so it just goes through and that mercury also doesn't dissolve in water/ wine so actually nothing would have happened. actually.

D.M. Koelen what do u mean?

You keep saying that word, I’m not sure if you know what it means

@@SirShanova Pretty sure it's just a fancy way of saying "unimaginable" or "unbelievable". It's really not that hard to understand.

@@SirShanova That is correct use though

y’all, steve s is making a movie reference. it’s from the princess’s bride

Blue Thunderbolt 😂 you missed the joke bud

A11ex I'd plug it with my lips. I want the wine to come out of the cup and into my mouth, how it gets there is just a technicality.

MrSubjugation You could also make that impossible by making the liquid distribute evenly on all sides through small pepperbox-like holes as it's leaving at the bottom, so at least you get much less of it but even that can be defeated if you just put the cup in a bucket.

A11ex Or do you mean bottom of the cuuuuuuuuhhhhp

etnies777 uuuuuuUUUUUHHHHHp

A11ex beat me to it

I liked what you did with you tube and U tube 😉😉😉

RU-vid is the closest to a time machine

to the top! :D made me lough

this needs to be a rick and morty bit.

+Jonathan George omfg was just thinking that, read it in rick voice

WHY IS THIS SO RICK & MORTY-Y?

Complex because i was binging the second season that week

Me to

That's the impression I got from the thumbnail

That sounds more like something that Diogenes would do.

that would be the most deadliest troll

@@cheesemanofficial9986 epik gamer momemt

Pee pee cup Pee pee cup

Oh dear why does it's draining sound like that

yes, yes it is

No. This is a cup that uses the syphon principle. A toilet is a sanitation fixture that uses the syphon principle.

They are both the same concept though.

***** Too bad irl I cant do that...

peter griffin thats exactly what a toilet is, you pull the tab and water floods in creating weight to push the water down (like a syphon) and emptying the bowl hopefully getting rid of whatever is inside and then refills.

You're welcome 😂

Imagine that, a RU-vid so long ago!

you're welcome!

I wondered where Captain Obvious was, and now I know. 🤦‍♂️

If only Pythagoras was still around to see the awful, awful mess he's made.

I think it might drain slower, but the honey would still be forced out. It's the density of mercury, not viscosity that makes this work.

+Josh Wilson but isnt honey denser than water too...?

Ooh! Better yet: Syrup

You're right. I think it would take more honey than the mercury they used, though. Since mercury is much denser, a thin layer at the bottom is enough. With honey, you might need to fill half the cup or more.

Here's the plan. Mercury, honey, then water.

Just for the name & profile pic alone you'd get my 'like'. Here, have another engagement point.

kind of defeats the point of a cup....

@@solomonjenkins9505 Precisely the point.

CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG!

@@warmnutjuice1682 he never met Brits or Americans! Brits: This is what we do! Americans: Hold my beer.

Smart Student would put some mercury on the bottom ... But you ... You make the demon of greed bow to you ...

They didn't use bottles back then, wine was stored and poured from big ceramic pots. Now, I'll r/wooosh myself out.

@@cyberhaggis Student: * drinks out of the pot * Pythagoras: Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?

@@cyberhaggis You could just get a clay bowl and drink it with that. Or alternatively just get a piece of clay and shove it into the hole, clogging it.

Lol true

They used to make cups out of lead tho

There is a difference of 2000 years between Pythagoras life and Mercury's foundation

Maybe…just…Maybe

Rapid Blobfish yeah

Rapid Blobfish omg...

a coincidence? i think not definitely not a coincidence

I feel like this is some sort of misguided compliment, or it's straight up disprespectful. Either way I'm not for it.

Srcsqwrn It's a joke, this is the comments section. I'm not making fun of him, he way smarter than me.

He could have just said U shaped tube, but he's a boomer, he doesn't understand

@@indofan1708 Most anyone would say "U tube," because that's what it is: a tube that's curved like a U. Generation has nothing to do with it, so quit acting pretentious.

@@TrueFlameslinger Awokawokawok 😂😂😂

Very clever

Damn they had RU-vid and armoured knights we have it really bad

nura loh No. Since mercury is over 13 times denser than wine (water) you need 13x more water above the mercury to "push" it up the same height. That can be seen in the video by the way. While the cup is full with water the mercury in the inner tube is pushed up just a few millimeters.

superdau what I was trying to say is that the Mercury takes up volume which can no longer be taken up by the wine to maximise the amount of wine in the cup. There will at least be 1/13 of volume wasted to Mercury.

nura loh That depends on how big the hole at the bottom is and how high the u-tube goes. You can make a cup that spills at any arbitrary height.

Assuming volume increases proportionately with the height of the cup, and the height of the u-tube is equal to the height of the cup, at least 1/13 will be wasted. Any higher and you'll need less Mercury and any less, you'll need more. It's reasonable to say that the one in the video is lower than the height of the glass. The size of the hole shouldn't matter should it? I remember learning that when I was back in school a decade ago or sth. You place water into 3 connected cylinders of different circumference and the height of the water will be leveled.

nura loh Well, they'd probably just have to drink the mercury too.

hol up

R.I.P Freddie

but....honey is not a drink...

+GloryHole Productions but it could be

GloryHole Productions honey and then water :)

Neither is mercury

S01LACED mercury is toxic, honey is drinkable.

Ok boomer

Oh that makes much more sense

The logical greedy conclusion would be to hold it over your head and start chugging it down! Beat you Pythagoras!

It's an open cup it'll pour out. Better idea is to hold it up and drink from the bottom.

What about the liquid in the big part of it ?

Surprised Pythagoras face

@@aryamaangoswamy179 lol

@@aryamaangoswamy179 Surprised a²+b²=c² face

@@arcanechicken4342 technically wouldn't it be a²+b²=√c² to get the solution

Since --------|------ 4......| 16 6..... | 36 ........|____+ 7.21| 52 So 4² = 16 6² = 36 16+36= 52 longest side = √62 longeat side ≈ 7.21

TechXSoftware:D I love it when they talk U-tubes on RU-vid, watching lots of science channels, I think the quantum cooler also works with a U-tube.

Was thinking that as well... :D

TechXSoftware Yo dawg...

+chrrrr I heard how much you like RU-vid, so I put a RU-vid in your U-tube. 😺

What if you don't have any fingers?

then you can't grab the cup ;) (i know you actually can, but cmon)

I heard the smart ones had someone fill it all the way while they let the wine pour into their greedy mouths through the hole in the bottom, funnel style.

400 BC: FUNNEL-BOOZE FRAT PARTY WAS INVENTED

Why didn't they just drink straight from the bottle?

I guess it tested them if they were greedy or not.

The thing is if they were greedy they would get no wine (the cup empties out), opposed to the small cup which they would get wine (if they were greedy).

+Ernsk Hans Bengton Bengton You're pretty damned slow, aren't you?

And into their lap.

Student: *fills it to the top* Cup: "YOU'VE JUST ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD!"

what deoes it do?

@@dragovern draw 2 cups of wine

Pog

Pot of hubris

students werent aware it had it

great physics at work....and the invention of magic at the same time ;-)

I'm certain they had to be aware of it once someone DID fill the cup up more than they were allowed.

+Shylok But you still don't know how it works!

migueeeelet Doesn't matter if we don't know how it works, just if we know where the wine will come out. Quite simply, all one needs to do is plug the hole with molten iron and let it cool.

nice

Or drink from the bottle directly

Or from the bottom

I put my finger in the hole. iykwim

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Yes

I have reached salvation now thank you comrade

Where do I get one of these cups? They seem cool. Nevermind, I found it in the description.

DukeOfTennessee117 got this joke needs to die off already.

DukeOfTennessee117 cup: na na na na hey goodbye

Huskypilot 630 when Greeks (orthodox) were drinking wine, catholics were still curious about grapes.

Well, given that it was the main drink that wasn't water. Doesn't really surprise anybody.

Wine was safer to drink than water

@@ViceVersace Those greeks weren't orthodox though so your silly orthodoc vs catholic pit against is pointless.

There’s a legit culinary class you can take where you can taste wine and pair it with dishes.

No, the liquid in the center of cup will remain at about the same level

@@pankrzysztof4949 thank you for telling .

No cost. Not much would happen, even if you did drink the mercury. >

Bodragon 3:13

@@FunStudios Your point being ?... >

Bodragon when you fill it with a little mercury you can fill the cup all the way. However mercury is poison so you would most likely get sick. >

3C (09) Ng Sze Hon Mercury poisoning can cause Alzheimer’s, ALS, certain cancers as well as kidney failure

+xxuncexx RU-vid, invented by Pythagoras.

Ikr

+xxuncexx Was youtube named after this?

+xxuncexx Got 'em

+xxuncexx That's because it IS amuzing. I missed it the first time!

Neue Ära Outsmarting your teacher is impossible to outweigh

Mr. Grimdek Unless you consider outliving them.

PhilBagels The problem is that the salt water would mix with the wine, making it taste horrible and also not work. Someone pointed out you could use Gallium which melts at 30C, but that was only discovered in 1875.

Well, if you poured the wine carefully enough, it wouldn't mix too much. And I assume wine is less dense than water due to the alcohol. So you could get a cup with a layer of saltwater at the bottom, and wine at the top. There would immediately be enough mixing to taste, but not necessarily enough to start the siphon (assuming the saltwater is dense enough to begin with). However, no matter how carefully you pour and no matter how well separated the two layers are at first, they will mix over time - each liquid diffusing into the other, and when they become sufficiently mixed the siphon would work. That might be an interesting question: Is there a liquid that is dense enough to stop the siphon from working, but that will gradually diffuse until the density is uniform enough for the siphon to start working. The liquid would sit there for some length of time, and then, without your having to do anything, the siphon would start to work and the liquid would all drain out. Remember that I don't even know if there's enough of a difference in the density of saltwater and the density of wine for it to even matter.

PhilBagels here is a better solution plug the hole