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A science experiment: split up a pair of wool socks; hand wash; hang one on the line, put one in the dryer on high heat. Let them dry. Conclusions?

#1: Glenn Crider (playamonkey) on Mar 7, 2021

You will still end up losing one.

Clever and true.

Yep, you will loose one for sure, but what will really bake your noddle is which one will you loose?

Is the image portraying that, should one somehow magically avoid the inevitable loss of either sock, one would find that one sock shrinks while the other does not?

The one from the dryer will make immediately your foot nice and toasty warm, while the one on the line will take some time for your foot to warm it up.

Dryer shrinkage of a wool sock should stretch back out at least to foot size once you put on the sock.

Lol #1.

Dryers eat socks.

The one in the dryer uses a lot more electricity. But I should talk, I never hang anything on the line.

Socks should be sold individually to support science and to cover #1.

Found to require some guessing by dbouldin.

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I like Dave Barry's theory that clothes dryers magically transmute some of the socks into coat hangers in the closets.

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#12 Aha! That explains so much!

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Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by gator.

Thanks David and Gator for spending time on the solvability of this one.

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