# Query re laundry G forces? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [August 10, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/query-re-laundry-g-forces/123314 "2002-08-10T20:54:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/query-re-laundry-g-forces/123314/21 "2002-08-13T19:51:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by femtosecond \* > \*\*600? Where do you live?! > > [european bragging mode ON] mine does 1400 rpm [european bragging mode OFF] > > Do you use separate spin-driers, do you use mostly clothes lines, do you accept your electric driers to take 3 hours, are your gas driers that much more powerful, is your energy cheaper in general, or why don’t you need to bother with a more efficient spin cycle (sounding like a jet-engine, but creating 500 g)? \*\* American washing machines are really different. They tend to be top load rather than front load and use much more water. One reason that European washers run faster is to help extract more of the dirty water from the earlier cycles. The other is to to make drying quicker. Energy is much cheaper in the US and people I know rarely dry clothes outside anymore. Instead we use electric or gas dryers. ---
**Author:** ![\_Uigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e9a140/32.png) [@\_Uigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Uigi)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/query-re-laundry-g-forces/123314/22 "2002-08-13T22:48:00Z")
I think Greg was simply baiting her into answering the question to see if she knew how to find the special symbols needed to answer the question. Cecil is a “she”. ---
**Author:** ![SandWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/query-re-laundry-g-forces/123314/23 "2002-08-13T22:58:19Z")
smelt ha-ha, got it! You’re mean! ---
**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/query-re-laundry-g-forces/123314/24 "2002-08-14T05:52:32Z")
A small technicality but an important one… **No roller coaster in the world pulls 7 or 8 G’s.** The most “intense” one you could say only pulls 6.5 (which is insane in it’s own sense, considering most pull 3-4) and it’s at Six Flags Astroworld in Houston. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/query-re-laundry-g-forces/123314/25 "2002-08-14T06:19:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BrandonR \* > \*\*A small technicality but an important one… **No roller coaster in the world pulls 7 or 8 G’s.** The most “intense” one you could say only pulls 6.5 (which is insane in it’s own sense, considering most pull 3-4) and it’s at Six Flags Astroworld in Houston. \*\* Karen Lingel must have an amazing ability to kill people’s reading comprehension. 🙂 The quote, again: “Alas, roller coasters are limited to 7 or 8 g’s. If the g-force is larger than that, so much of your blood is pulled down out of your brain and you black out or die.” Note that it says ‘limited to’ and gives a reason for that limit. It’s saying what the theoretical maximum is, not what the current record is. ---
**Author:** ![femtosecond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/query-re-laundry-g-forces/123314/26 "2002-08-14T13:18:35Z")
Don’t worry about the socks. For every sock we lose to a parallel universe it in turn creates an equivalent amount of single-shoe-matter by the side of our roads. Matter, energy, and overall odd-matched-object-annoyance is conserved in both universes. Fish in the washing machine… how disgusting. We all know that fish goes in the dishwasher. [Dishwasher Salmon With A Piquant Dill Sauce](http://www.foodtv.ca/recipes/recipedetails/recipe_688.asp) Now what I want to know is if Australian machines spin counter-clockwise to take advantage of the reversed coriolis force in the southern hemisphere. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/query-re-laundry-g-forces/123314/27 "2002-08-14T17:30:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Cecil is a “she”. Even with the sparse knowledge available about Cecil’s personal details, it’s pretty well established that he is, in fact, male. Karen Lingel, however, the staff member who wrote this Report, may be presumed to be female. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/query-re-laundry-g-forces/123314.md?page=1)