The spring first pulls together, and only then falls to the ground.
I saw this video of a falling slinky from Veritasium some time ago and ever since wanted to film it myself, so here we go:
To understand why it falls the way it does, go look at Veritasium’s explanation.
Today I was browsing for a new laptop bag online and came across this page (and I am neither affiliated nor anything else with them, as will hopefully also become clear in about a second)*.
They give a lot of advice on what to look for in a laptop bag, but there was one advice in particular that jumped at me and that I absolutely had to share with my dear readers:
“A generously padded laptop bag can also release some weight because it “holds” your computer up from the gravity.”
Isn’t this awesome? I like it so much I have to repeat it:
“A generously padded laptop bag can also release some weight because it “holds” your computer up from the gravity.”