The bursting of bubble wrap, if judiciously done, can help detect whether there is crap (or to put it more nicely: unexpected stuff) inside a pipeline. This new study tells about the problem and the possible, bubble-wrap-bursting way to deal with the problem: “Electric-power free impulse point sound source generation system with bubble wrap bursting […]
Rhett Allain, writing in Wired, took a calculating approach to bubble wrap. He introduced it with these thoughts: How much bubble wrap do you need to survive jumping out of the 6th floor of a building? Let me randomly say this is a height of 20 meters. Where would you start with a question like this? […]
A veterinarian in Lake Worth, Florida reports a surgical innovation: “Bubble Wrap for Surgical Patients,” Greg J. Harrison, Journal of the Association of Avian Veterinarians, vol. 7n o. 4, 1993, p. 221. Dr. Harrison — the Harrison of Harrison’s Bird Foods — writes: “We have used regular bubble wrap to envelop avian patients undergoing long-term […]