lunchtime mystery

[low_delta]

I make my sandwich out of homemade bread that is kind of dry, so it makes a lot of crumbs. In between bites I set it down on the ziploc bag, which gets covered with crumbs. When I am finished I pick up the bag and put in my garbage can.

Why am I telling you this? Well something a little strange has been happening lately. It just started a couple of months ago. When I pick up the bag, half the crumbs leap into the air as soon as the bag leaves the surface of the desk. There's some static electricity thing happening with the plastic.

Comments

[beckmermaid.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad you shared, that's cool. A few weeks ago at the zoo- in the bug exhibit- Ryan discovered that if he held his hand near the glass (i think it was actually thick plastic) of a bug's exhibit, the twig inside the exhibit on the other side moved away from him every time he touched the glass. hehe :)

Static is cool & as my high school chemistry teacher's favorite button read, "friction is a drag".

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Cool.
Cool.

[nephychu.livejournal.com]

lol.

I'd love to have seen the look on your face the first time that happened.

Might be able to discharge the plastic by touching metal or a ground of some sort, then touching the bag.

I used to write and play computer games on an ancient system called the TI-99-4/A when my voice still had yet to change and every so often there'd be a static discharge from my body rubbing on the carpet which would pass through the joystick cord and into the machine, wreaking all sorts of havoc.  The most memorable time was when I was playing PARSEC and instead of the normal slow-assed attack wave engaging me, these killer satellites intended to be seem three levels later zoomed in and blew the crap out of me.  My dad and I looked at each other like this: o_O

.. but I learned to touch metal fairly early in, having lost a lot of homemade program increments to static electricity lockups. :D