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submitted 7 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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A pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment which measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years.

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[-] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Fun fact: no one has even seen the pitch actually drop - they had a camera set up to catch the ninth drop in 2014 but it fell during a server outage. You can watch a live feed of the tenth drop!

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

I got a 403, but I'm on mobile, maybe it's only viewable on PC? I'll have to check tomorrow

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Worked on Firefox Android for me, just had to say it was OK to access without https

[-] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah I'm on Firefox Android too, still giving me an error. I'll have to do more testing on it this afternoon

Edit: does not work on desktop either :(

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Another one drops the pitch

[-] JBPinkle@bookwyr.me 6 points 7 months ago

That's the most interesting wikipedia entry I've read in a good long while.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

I went out of my way to see this during one of their open days, it's as interesting in person as you'd expect.

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