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Ouch! The beds in India hurt ...

#1: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Dec 14, 2010

you nailed that one, Kai

Once again: Fun puzzle Kai and great comment Tom! WOW!

lol.

I got to lay down on a bed of nails as part of a physics demonstration. Fun! Good puzzle.

why would anyone want to lie down on a bed of nails
fun puzzle though

My students loved it. I'm sure they put it on facebook.

bugaboo, I saw this in a science center actually. You lie on one nail, it will puncture you. Lay on a bed full of them, and they actually altogether support you. I've witnessed this.

i know cyclone
i have heard of people doing it
the laws of physics are at work
but to do it for fun is just silly to me

to do it at all is iffy

The only reasons I did it were to show the principle of pressure=force/area and to say that I'd done it. Did i mentioned that I did it?

I wonder who ever thought of making a bed of nails?

First paragraph of this: http://www.shaktioriginal.eu/HistoryOfTheBedOfNails.aspx

Good discussion ... right to the point. :o) Hey, mootpoint, how did you start the lying down process? The first, I assume, sit-down must have been bad. :o( ???

That's right Mrs T. Just don't put your hands on the nails first. Too small an area. But sitting down is no problem. Your weight is spread out over sufficient area that no extra holes are produced.

Thanks for the explanation, mootpoint. I have always wondered about that. :o)

haha at the word "extra"

Thought it might be a harmonica.

When I was a kid on a family trip to Niagara Falls, there was a bed of nails at the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum there, so we tried out lying on it. It wasn't super comfortable, but it worked, and I didn't get punctured or injured or anything. As Cyclone and Brian said, the hardest part was getting on and off, because when you are sitting on the bed your body's weight is spread over a smaller number of nails, so they poke harder. Once you are lying down, then your weight is distributed over more nails, so it's more comfortable.

Interesting!

I guess one must use sheet iron when one makes the bed?

JoDeen, you nailed it.

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