why are vacuum cleaners so darn noisy?
I had to ask.
Dr. Strangemind
why are vacuum cleaners so darn noisy?
I had to ask.
Dr. Strangemind
4-3-2-1…
If it’s dirty, it’s not a true vacumn, chowderhead.
“why are vacuum cleaners so darn noisy?”
That’s exactly what I thought when I clicked on this thread. Good minds think alike I guess.
Does this really need to be answered?
It’s the motor.
Happy
You weren’t actually IN the vacuum, now were you? duh.
What’s sadder, the question or the people who take the question seriously? I choose the latter.
In Space, No One Can Hear You Clean
I took my vacuum cleaner back to the shop in disgust; when I opened the box there was clearly a great deal of matter in there.
It’s because you were using it to clean your carpet. Vacuum cleaners should be used to clean vacuums only!
How does a vacuum get dirty, anyway?
Interstellar dust. Duh.
Reminds me of an old Steve Martin routine. . .
I fancy doing it the old-fashioned way; where can I buy an interstellar duster?
Why? Because they suck. They suck. If they didn’t suck, they’d blow.
I’m just torr up over whether I should post a serious answer to this thread.
Since a few physicists have already posted, I think I’ll pass. Cal?
You’re right. You still would need something to reach between the ribs of the cosmic microwave background radiator…
So. Now somebody close this thread!
GQ is for questions you actually want a serious answer to. Jokes go in MPSIMS. This thread is closed.
bibliophage
moderator GQ
Oh, what the heck, let’s move this to MPSIMS and see where it takes us.
“Space, the final frontier – of cleaning.”
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
Fighting valiantly not to make the standard Uranus joke.
Simple.
See, the reason a vacuum consists of essentially nothing is because the cleaner has come along and taken everything out of it. All the noise that would exist in the vacuum has been transferred to the cleaner. What you hear from the cleaner is what you would here in the vacuum if the cleaner hadn’t gotten there first. Problem is, due to the funny way quantum mechanics works, it is impossible to actually find a vaccuum before the vacuum cleaner gets to it, therefore, the cleaner has already done its work. By the time you reach the vaccuum, it all seems eerily silent, and the cleaner seems noisy. I would show the calculations involved that determine the point at which a cleaner shows up after a vaccuum is created, but they’d be way to complex for you to understand.